microstakesfish

One thing I've wondered is what makes a player much better than another. You seem to have a good grasp on game theory. Exactly what makes people like Ike or WCGRider much better than you? Have they just run more of these analyses in many, many more spots? Or is there a different way they approach situations?

thanks a lot for that explanation! that argument makes sense.

wait it's certainly not obvious that when OOP traps sometimes, IP needs to bet all his "nut" hands, since these hands are not really "nut" hands anymore.

or maybe i'm just missing something?

do you think we should be betting all of our "nut" hands? it seems like the amount of traps such that we no longer want to value bet is a formalization of the idea of "showdown value." do you think we should maybe be betting a percentage of our value hands as opposed to all of them? i'm not too sure about the math behind this, but maybe you've thought about it.

GTO is not "optimal" in the sense that it leads to the highest amount of money won. In fact, GTO is a term only used within the poker community. It really refers to a strategy or set of strategies that is unexploitable, i.e., as Vincent says, another party cannot increase their EV against your strategy even if he/she knows it completely.

can you explain your reasoning behind folding 'top two' on the turn?

awesome video! i've been struggling to find a "reason" to 3-bet, 4-bet, and 5-bet, and this provides a good breakdown of how to look at it from a game theory perspective.

would love to see a video on 3 betting / 5 betting all in from blinds as well!