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QY taught me alot of GTO-concepts that were new to a small stakes player like me, so that alone was worth the money. Most importantly though, he gave me the theoretical tools necessary to learn new spots using my own GTO-solver solutions. He also readily answers questions in the study group.

I definitively recommend hiring QY as a coach!

I just had the last session of the 10h package with QY. I was a struggling small-stakes player, so I was a bit worried that this course would be too advanced for me. However, QY is great at explaining and comes to each session well prepared.

Currently I'm in the process of reviewing the session recordings, taking extensive notes, and going through the course material thoroughly. The reason for this is that each session contained so much new information for a small-stakes player like me, so my brain needs some more time to process it all ;-)

Many of the concepts taught are general enough so they can be applied when studying other situations as well. In the last session QY was nice enough to say that if I have any questions about the course material in the future, he would be happy to answer them then.

In conclusion, I'm so happy I bought this course.
QY is definitively the best coach I've ever hired.

Not sure if the following option was available when you guys wrote this, but I changed the Quality in the video player's settings to 1080p. Now I can identify the Monker card values in the first preflop video on my largest monitor. I haven't tried any other videos yet though. (I of course agree that the cards could be larger.)

Let me first say that I'm by no means a game theory expert, so if what I write below is incorrect please let me know. We are all here to learn after all! I think that a GTO strategy is only mathematically guaranteed to work in the way you describe against a single opponent (once everyone else have folded with the ranges you both have then as a starting point).

As I remember it, when reading about game theory in the past, there are some issues with trusting GTO to much at lower stakes multiplayer games:

1. In multiway pots, GTO still works well as long as everyone else also tries to play as close to GTO as possible. But if a recreational opponent joins the game, he can make mistakes which may cost both him and you (playing a GTO-strategy) money. This money gets won by a third player. In order to avoid this it can be correct to deviate from GTO in multiway pots (as long as you do it in an intelligent and correct way).

2. (EDITED) The relatively high rake at micros and low stakes means we are not playing anything close to a zero-sum game (the game theory math behind the solvers converging towards GTO-solutions is based on zero-sum games).

3. I don't own MonkerSolver yet, but I think it uses different sorts of approximations and abstractions in order to be able to "solve" PLO. Thus, I think we should be somewhat careful with assuming that the outputted results are exact GTO-ranges IMHO.

I hope this helped at least somewhat! Since I'm only just now starting to play PLO and bought access to this course recently, I unfortunately can't comment on the specific starting hands you mention.

I agree completely!

Although I have about a third of the course left to study, it has already exceeded my expectations by far.

I’m by no means an expert but have you also tried running sims comparing the EV of only betting 33% pot with only betting 75% pot (or checking) to see if the flop examples given are correct when forcing the solver to use a single bet size?

I understand that you mean that the solver should bet the suggested size a majority of the time but in my limited experience with solvers it’s not that easy and running single bet strategy sims are necessary to compare their EVs.

After I’ve eventually finished this course I wonder if I can jump directly to the book “100 hands”? Maybe I should study TGM in between (since Peter Clarke says that FTGU supplements TGM)?

Anyway, the couple of videos I’ve studied so far are informative and well structured. (Naturally it’s going to take a good while for a semi-fish like me to digest all the info.)