Optimal means that no matter what strategy your opponent is playing, you will never lose. Your EV in worst case scenarios is 0. So even against an opponent playing Rock 100% of the time, the optimal, and GTO strategy is still to play rock, paper and scissors with an equal distribution.
Obviously at that point you're going to want to play exploitative and not GTO, which at that point he'll start trying to exploit your strategy since you aren't playing optimal, and so starts the equilibrium exercise in which eventually both competent opponents would at some point find themselves both playing GTO again.
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Optimal means that no matter what strategy your opponent is playing, you will never lose. Your EV in worst case scenarios is 0. So even against an opponent playing Rock 100% of the time, the optimal, and GTO strategy is still to play rock, paper and scissors with an equal distribution.
Obviously at that point you're going to want to play exploitative and not GTO, which at that point he'll start trying to exploit your strategy since you aren't playing optimal, and so starts the equilibrium exercise in which eventually both competent opponents would at some point find themselves both playing GTO again.
Aug. 17, 2015 | 11:11 p.m.