The Fundamentals of GTO Poker

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GTO is often touted as the "holy grail" of poker strategy. But what makes GTO unexploitable? Does it work against non-GTO opponents? And how are these strategies generated? Learn all this and more in today's video by Tombos21!

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The Fundamentals of GTO Poker:

0:00 Intro
0:36 What is a GTO strategy?
2:01 How are GTO strategies generated?
3:12 What makes it unexploitable?
4:10 Does GTO work against non-GTO opponents?
9:36 Minimum EV guarantee
10:30 How does GTO make money?
12:38 Further Reading

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[GTOWizard]

Quiz: What is the most exploitative strategy against GTO? (comment below)

[Pickthewinner]

Any advice on how to use G. T. O. Wiz to play more G. T. O. ? Just keep practicing hands every day???

[badvideo]

still watching but very clear text and sound and images, good job

[janarodriquez-pr]

Is their any software out there that works with clubwpt?

[camilotm]

Hi, thanks for the video!!.I got one quick question, could you give more or less an example of how "counter exploits always gain exponentially more than the initial exploits".Let's say for example we know someone overfolds river, then we decide to overbluff river (that's the first exploit), so if we get counterexploited, the rival begins overcalling while we still overbluff.But in which way this would make our rival gain waaay more money against the first exploit?.

[julianparrish]

As a complete GTO noob wheres the starting point...yes I know about the site but where do I start?

[alexleach]

@4:39, i dont belive this is ture. There is not a better strategy to use but there are tons of equally good non gto straregts that get the exact same results. When you are playing GTO you are often making parts of their range indifferent. If you always call or aways fold etc with an indifferent part of your range vs a GTO player you will have the exact same results. So deviating from GTO in this case does not hurt you (or help you). There are deviations you could make that hurt you but many do not.

[ncannavino]

Great video yet again.... but yeah lemme know when there's a sale for those white hoodies on your website 😅

[morris]

Tombos21 makes some of the best content. We should train AI on his videos.

[mikemakarevich]

Must give extra credits not only for the info in the video, but also for the images. Thanks

[modeob]

Can you expand on "no strategy is unexploitable on multway pot" i dont see clearly why....

[dw]

Seems like common sense most of it. I think the skills isn't so much playing gto but understanding combos vs pot odds when making defensive decisions and basing exploitive plays on live reads and player knowledge.

[ZiyaBast]

So heads up poker is technically solved. That's wild

[Ovechkin]

Doesn’t a mixed strategy have equal EV for all actions? Why does calling have slightly higher EV than raising in the 98 example?

[boop]

genuinely feel like this video is way too in between technical enough that it keeps people who already understand game theory engaged and too technical that people who have no idea what game theory is will be confused.
for example:
"We use software called solvers. solvers are basically EV-maximizing algorithms. That is to say, given a set of strategies it knows how much money every hand will make in every spot in every decision point"
avoiding the fact that that's wrong (it knows the average amount of "money every hand is gonna make...") here's what goes through the mind of someone who understands game theory watching the video (again, ignoring the inaccuracy)

"We use software called solvers"
so... similar to chess? got it. i might be more interested in the inner workings but id like to learn the basics here

"solvers are EV-maximising algorithms"

I inferred that yea.

"which means that..."

well i already know what it means.



Okay and i understand that this video is made for someone who has no background knowledge in game theory. alright then, so lets go back to each line and see what a person without background knowledge thinks.

"we use software called solvers"
well... what does a solver do? i get that it solves but like... how and what exactly

"solvers are ev-maximising algorithms"
oh great theyre gonna explain what a solver is! oh. okay so whats an ev-maximising algorithm

"which means that..."
okay so youve told me that it knows how much money every hand makes in every spot but... why? and how? i still dont get it. does it predict my opponent's hands? what's going on?

[maxreach]

"If everybody is playing GTO they've already made as much money as they can In the spot". And that amount of money is equal to 0.

[josyvan]

wait a moment tho -11:21 if the ev is 0.34 with 89o in the BB we gain 0.34bb/100 not 34bb/100 right??? cause then 89o would be a monster ??

[LinusK]

"A GTO strategy will always outperform an imbalanced strategy, heads-up."
It seems like what this suggests is you should avoid playing against computers.
On the other hand, when you're playing against humans, you're always leaving money on the table, when you don't adapt to what they're doing.
For example, in the heads-up game vs. the nit, GTO will continue losing the same amount of money vs. AA.
An adaptive player will lose less and less, since he'll stop calling the nit's 3-bets.

[ewallt]

In Nash’s paper, n player games have a Nash equilibrium, for n players games of a certain type. So given any strategy is exploitable in poker in multi-way play, it must be the case that this isn’t the type of n player game where the Nash equilibrium applies. I’m a bit curious as to how he defined this. Perhaps n player games where your strategy is unexploitable by collusion. I wonder of what an example of such a game is.

[angelopaparazzi]

Great video although not a fan of the AI backgrounds tbh