Efficient Study Method With GTO Trainers
Posted by Francesco Lacriola
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Hello Francesco, GTO trainers are becoming a more important part of being a poker player, so there was lots of good advice in this video!
What do you think of the idea of using the trainer in 2 different ways - 1 tabling the trainer slowly and in detail to study in depth, and then multi-tabling the trainer to mimic real play once you have studied the concepts/patterns?
I'm not a huge fan of multi-tabling the trainer, at least not with a GTO database. I think it can be helpful if you're trying to master turn play after playing a simplified flop strategies and you run a trainer with scripted solutions, so you generate a bigger sample to familiarize with different runouts and with how to play your range more effectively.
I like the idea of categorising your mistakes to work out what types of mistake you are making in general. How do you go about categorising your mistakes? Does GTOWizard do that for you, or do you track it in a spreadsheet?
GTOWizards categorizes them in a chess-like way: blunders (huge mistakes), mistakes and inaccuracies.
I like to take notes and to add context: f.ex I'm not worried about frequency mistakes, some inaccuracies might actually be a solid exploitative play against certain opponents. It's important to understand how easy is for your opponents to punish specific mistakes and whether or not a potential theoretical mistake might be not bad/really bad according to the variables in play.
Hey Francesco I am a big fan of your videos. but this one is expanding my mind!
They advice about finding mistakes with the trainer is the goal. Not a problem. That is the mind set that is required to improve.
question how does the trainer know we are making a frequency mistake for instance if we roll a 60 and the option is only bet or check and we should be betting 60% in theory. one side must be bet or check.
I do not use an RNG in game because I do not believe my population is playing anywhere close to GTO. I believe most spots in my games that would be zero ev In PIO there is clear answer based on player profile.
Some trainers (including GTOWizard) have the option to include a RNG and let you choose high/low for the aggressive action, so they would report "frequency mistake" if your action doesn't match the rolled number.
I agree, at low and mistakes it's not necessary to rely on RNG. I still use it, but I'm not dogmatic about it, and I ignore it to always play the line that I think performs the most whenever I have a clear read about a specific situation.
One more question have you checked out deep solver? it is my preferred study tool. I find it better to be able to node lock quickly and adjust preflop ranges in my study sessions to make the simulations more real. I am not sure how applicable GTO wizard is for NL200 and below.
I'm not familiar with this tool, will check it out.
GTO databases are useful to increase our understanding of theory, but we have to be extremely selective when we choose what to apply. Studying theory should always be paired with improving hand reading skills in order to pair them in a lethal way for our opponents.
Really appreciate this video.
How much of your study is spent looking at hands you have played and breaking them down vs. playing against the solver or looking at specific concepts?
20:00 it seems like most of how we should play just ends up being a form of exploitive play.
38:55 I am surprised sb does not get to overbet jam turns. What makes this spot bad for that?
Thanks!
I don't have a fixed ratio in how I organize my study time, right now I'm mostly trying to be more precise in certain situations and work on more precise exploits against particular tendencies. Also, having a coaching schedule, I end up digging deep into solvers/solver concepts with my students, so mostly I focus my study time on hand review/looking for very specific things at the moment. It's a very different process for everyone, there's no "one fit all" routine and it's strongly related to what parts of your game need the most work.
38.55 Jamming is much harder to balance and is going to be value heavy, also we fold way too many draws and pairs worse than Kx. We also have an incentive not to over polarize (AK+), but to bet KQ and KJ, and those hands don't perform that well as jams.
Hey Francesco - great vid. The way you categorizing mistakes into 4 parts are really helpful and sheds lights on how to better approach trainer study in a more systematic manner. Thank you very much!
Hi, very basic question but what exactly is a gto library?
I use piosolver versión one for scripting but I understand a library to just be a database of all my solutions that have been scripted.
Library basically means a set of pre-solved solutions provided by web-based solver like GTO wizard, it's called library because all the parameters are fixed so you can only view those but can't tweak.
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