9 Hand Online Poker Strategy?

Is 6 max or 9 max better?

The main difference between 6 max and 9 max is that at tables 6 max the game is more aggressive, there is constant pressure from the villains.
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Is a jack and a 9 good in poker?

Against a 3-Bet – Jack-Nine suited is not a great hand with which to call a 3-bet since it is so often dominated by better Jx and 9x hands, which will lose you a lot of money when you hit a pair. Plus, it doesn’t have the same playability that Jack-Ten suited or other similar suited connectors,
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What is ghosting in online poker?

Ghosting – One type of cheating that is unique to online is ghosting. No, this isn’t where your Tinder date doesn’t respond to you. Ghosting refers to when another poker player takes over playing in a tournament, usually when the tournament is down to a final table, or in a satellite approaching the bubble.

This player is usually one that is better or more skilled at the game. This form of cheating can also refer to having another player coach you through certain spots. Other players at the table will not know that you are using another poker player to assist you in certain spots while playing in the same tournament as you.

This type of cheating is also not restricted to tournaments or satellites. High-stakes cash games might also see players “ghost” on different accounts while at the poker table, so that players may think it is one person when another player is the one actually playing and making the decisions for them. In 2020, Bill Perkins shared news of a poker scandal that eventually implicated Dan “Jungleman” Cates, Cates was accused of ghosting while playing high-stakes cash games, and ultimately apologized. However, he did state that it was his understanding that the game was “rampant” with professionals who were ghosting.
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Is online poker luck or skill?

Conclusion: Is Poker Based on Luck or Skill? – The answer to whether poker is gambling or based on skill is that it’s a little of both. In order to win a hand, a player will need some element of luck, but they’ll also need to know exactly what to do with the cards and the situation in front of them.
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Is a 6 or 9 person poker better?

6 Handed vs 9 Handed Poker (Which One is More Profitable?) – So which poker game format is more profitable? Like with most things poker, it depends. It’s essentially the same game, the only difference is the number of opponents you’re facing. With that in mind, that number will, in fact, dictate your overall strategy.

• The more opponents, the stronger cards you need on average to continue playing profitably.
• If you are a beginner poker player, full ring games might be a good place to start.
• If you have studied a bit of advanced poker strategy, then 6max might be more up your alley.
• This is the game that many of the top pros gravitate towards more these days, because there is more action.

There are also tons of good modern poker strategy books available these days to help take your 6max game to the next level as well. But I still recommend full ring (9max) to total beginners for a couple reasons. The pace of action is slower and more manageable, and there’s less variance.

It’s also the best format to practice proper tight and aggressive strategy, and you can start winning consistently fairly quickly. If you are confident in your playing abilities, on the other hand, 6-max format is potentially more profitable. It’s a higher variance format, but it also promises a bigger upside.

A faster pace allows for more volume in a shorter time, which means more opportunities to fully manifest your skill edge over your competition. Due to few players at the table, details like the metagame and your table image also come into play. If you’re playing online, however, you will probably end up playing 6-max, as some poker sites don’t even offer full-ring games.

And even if they do, there’s not a lot of players there.6-max is the norm for online poker, and it’s no wonder. A faster pace of action for the players, and more rake for the poker site. There are a ton of other emerging game formats as well. Some are totally gimmicky, but who’s to say which one will become the next big thing? As far as profitability goes, 6-max sits at the top simply due to the fact that everyone is playing it.

You can get action all day, every day. It’s poker in its purest form, in my opinion, and it’s hardly going away any time soon. Lastly, to learn my complete strategy for crushing both 6max and 9max games for the highest possible winnings, grab a copy of my free poker cheat sheet.
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What percent of hands should you play in 6-max?

6-Max poker has really taken off in popularity in recent years. Full ring games (9 or 10 players) used to be the norm, and actually still are if you play live, but 6-Max now dominates the world of online poker. And therefore, you need to know the right strategy to beat these games.

The correct 6-max poker strategy is to play looser than you would in a full ring game (open 20% of hands) and make more bluffs and wider call downs. This means that in a 6-max game you should be playing a lot more speculative hands like suited connectors and suited aces as well. But the best 6-max poker strategy is still always dependent on what type of players are seated at your table.

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Now of course this is a pretty simplistic answer and there is a lot more that you need to know in order to start crushing the 6-max games. So this article will be my complete guide to 6max poker strategy. I will be sharing with you my top tricks and tips that I have learned over the years from playing millions of hands of 6max online and crushing these games.

It’s almost like a 6max poker cheat sheet to be honest. And in case you were wondering, yes, the strategies that you are going to learn in this article will also work very well in all 6max Zoom games. Lastly, if you are wondering whether 6max is more profitable than full ring (9 players), I already covered that in a recent video.

Make sure you are subscribed to my my YouTube channel by the way for weekly high level 6max poker videos. Alright with all that out of the way, let’s get started!
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What is 6max in poker?

What is 6-Max Poker? Put simply, 6-max is a format that allows a maximum of six players to be seated at the table. Traditional ‘full-ring’ games, by contrast, allow up to 9 players.
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What is the 7 2 rule in poker?

The 7-2 Game A few nights ago I had the chance to play at friend’s home game where we implemented the 7-2 game. For those of your not familiar, this is where anytime a player wins with 7-2, every other player at the table has to give them some amount of money.

1. In our case, we were playing a deep-stacked 1/2 game with six players and when someone won with 7-2, they would get $10 (5 BB) from every other player.25 BB total is not a bad score, especially when you’re able to take it down preflop.
2. Some people hate the game, others love it, and I certainly fall into the later category.

Anything to drum up action and encourage bluffing is a win in my book. At first, it no one was getting dealt 7-2. After at least four orbits the hand was not shown down and everyone said they hadn’t seen the had once. This makes sense though- of the 1326 possible starting hand combos in NLHE, 7-2 comprises only 16 of them, for a little over 1% of total possible hands.

After about an hour though of no one getting the hand, seemingly all at once, a very high proportion were getting dealt, and this continued for the rest of the night. There were at least 4x as many 7-2 combos dealt as what one would expect based on the odds (I certainly wasn’t complaining about that!).

While the game is normally fun, somewhat loose, with a good amount of aggression, the 7-2 game transformed the table to have a preflop aggression frequency higher than the toughest online 6max games. It seemed like there was a 3bet every few hands with no one ever really choosing to back down with 7-2.

On top of the standard 3 and 4bet bluffs with 7-2, there were also a few notable pots where 7-2 triple barreled on a scary board and got called down on all three streets and where a player opted to flat with 7-2 preflop and make a series of bluffs postflop to take it down. For the home game that this was played in, I think the 7-2 game makes a lot of sense.

Everyone could afford to play these stakes so although the hyped up aggression left some people frustrated by the end of the night, it wasn’t going to make anyone not come back. The only scenario in which I could see the 7-2 game not making sense for one’s home game is if the stakes being played are meaningful to some, and the thought of losing 3 buyins or more in a friendly game is something that would discourage players from coming back (although in this type of case, my recommendation would be to lower the stakes, up the stack depth, and bring on the preflop aggression!).

What I’m excited to further explore is not the merits of whether or not to play the 7-2 game sometimes – unless you hate action and people bluffing more, it’s worth at least trying for an hour or two. I want to look at how this game effects decisions so if you find yourself in a game where people are playing the 7-2 game, you know how to adjust.

I think it’s fairly obvious for those that have played the 7-2 game, most people over-adjust and bluff too much when holding 7-2. I’m going to look at how the reward of winning a hand wth 7-2 impacts one’s EV and your frequencies. For the sake of simplicity, let’s work with the assumption that the reward for winning with 7-2 is 30 BB – 5 BB at a 7 handed home game.

1. Let’s say you normally open 3 BB to win 1.5 BB.
2. Now with the 7-2 game in play the reward is 31.5 BB.
3. So it’s clear even in early position 7-2 is a slam-dunk open.
4. Now what about a 3bet? Let’s say you standardly 3bet to 10 BB over a 3 BB open.
5. So now instead of risking 10 BB to win 4.5 BB, you’re risking 10 to win 34.5 BB.

At first glance it might seem like we should be 3betting 100% of the time with 7-2. I think in most games this is probably correct, but if you’re in a really loose game where people rarely fold to 3bets, or up against a particularly sticky player, it might be best to just fold against those type of players.

Because once called preflop, 7-2 has such poor equity against a calling range so without much fold equity postflop, best to just fold pre. Note in these games I would have a tiny or non-existent 3bet bluffing range without the 7-2 game. Most players will have a frequency that they fold to 3bets, even in a loose, aggressive, and deep stacked game, so most of the time you should replace some of your 3bet bluffs with 7-2.

The key when adjusting for this game is not completely throw off your relative frequencies – if you normally 3bet in late position with 9s+ AQ+ for value and A2s-A5s as a bluff, don’t just add 7-2 to your 3betting range unless these players won’t adjust to the 7-2 game – almost no one doesn’t adjust when playing the 7-2 game, if anything, most players in my experience over-adjust and always “put you on 7-2”.

So against most players you should also add at least the proportionate amount of value combos to keep your ratio of value hands to bluffs the same, if not more value hands due to overadjustment. Now on to 4bet bluffing. If a standard 4bet to a 10 BB 3bet is 35 BB, you’re normally risking 35 BB to win 11.5 BB, and with the 7-2 game to win 41.5 BB.

As you can see, after more preflop betting occurs, you’re starting to risk more to win relatively less. The same logic for when to 3bet bluff with 7-2 applies to 4betting, although because of the price we’re laying ourselves, we need to be a little more conservative than with 3betting.

• Against a relatively balanced player, we should be 4bet bluffing all combos of 7-2.
• But against someone who only 3bets very good hands or is looking to gamble with a merged value range, best to fold all combos of 7-2 preflop.
• I imagine there aren’t many opponents where it is correct to do anything but fold all combos or 4bet all combos.

It would take a particular opponent who is somewhat balanced in their 3betting range but a little too loose to warrant a mixed strategy with 7-2. Postflop Barreling frequencies with 7-2 postflop are largely dependent on the size of the pot after the preflop betting.

1. In a similar fashion to preflop, it’s likely correct to cbet 100% in a single-raised pot heads up- if our cbet sizing is on average 1/2 pot, then one is risking 3.25 BB to win 37.5 BB.
2. With multiple players in the pot, it still is likely correct to cbet 100% with 7-2 because of the price.
3. Even if the 3.25 BB cbet only gets through 15% of the time in a 4way pot, it’s still a really profitable cbet because you’re risking 3.25 BB to win 43.5 BB (only needs to work about 7.5% of the time to break even).

If you’re at a table where it’s so loose that cbets don’t go through on the flop when playing the 7-2 game because everyone puts you on it, don’t ever bluff postflop with 7-2 and please let me know if you ever need another player for the game. In a 3bet pot, the same logic largely applies.

In a heads up pot when cbetting the flop you’re risking 10 BB to win 51.5 BB, so you only need the bet to work 18% of the time as opposed to the normal 33% without the 7-2 bonus. Note how much more of an attractive proposition cbetting is in a single-raised versus heads up pot: cbets only need to work 8.5% of the time versus 18% of the time.

And for 4bet pots this then changes to 26.5% which while is better than the 33% that it would need to work without the 7-2 game, won’t change your range as significantly. In a 4bet pot you should probably give up with some combos of 7-2 and replace your worst normal bluffing candidates with 7-2.

Don’t be the guy that makes the hero triple barrel – on each street the extra 30 BB becomes much less of a factor. If it’s a 3bet pot heads up pot with 200 BB stacks to start the hand, and you get to the river with 100 BB in the pot and 150 BB behind. You decide to overbet the river and risk 150 BB to win 100 + 30 BB because goddamnit if you’ll lose with 7-2.

Normally you would need this bluff to work 60%. But with the extra 30 BB, this bet still needs to work 53.5% of the time, not that significant of a difference. If you decide it makes sense to have an overbetting range on a particular river card, it will likely make sense to include at least a combo or two of 7-2, just not all 12 combos.

• Equity when called + fold equity – bet when called and miss + bounty equity = 0
• Equity is when called = x
• % Opponent folds = y
• 7-2 Bounty = z
• So let’s say I bet 50 into 100 on a flop in a heads up pot.
• So the base equation before knowing our exact hands, equities, and bounty is the following knowing the size of the bet:
• x(1-y)*200 + y*100 – 50*(1-x)(1-y) + z = 0
• The flop is Kc6h9c.
• Which is a better c-bet bluffing candidate, 72o or J10c?

Let’s approximate that 7-2 has about 5% equity against a continuing range and J10c has 35% equity. Your opponent will fold 33%, 8% more than optimal. In the home game I played, the 7-2 bounty was 50.7-2,05(1-.33)*200 +,33*100 – 50*(1-.05)(1-.33) + 50 = 57.875 J10c,35(1-.33)*200 +,33*100 – 50*(1-.35)(1-.33) + 0 = 58.125

1. So in this case, we’d expect to profit about $7 (answer of equation – the bet) with our best bluffing candidate as well as 72o betting half pot in a medium sized pot for the stake, without much theoretical difference between the two hands.
2. Now let’s look at what happens if this flop was bet called and a blank turn comes out.
3. Kc6h9c4s

Which is a better bluffing candidate now for betting 140 into 200? Let’s adjust the base equation for this bet and pot size, how often your opponent folds (33%, a few % less than optimally against this bet size), and updated equities – 0% for 7-2 and 18% for J10c.

x(1-y)*480 + y*200 – 140*(1-x)(1-y) + z = 0 7-2 0(1-.33)*480 +,33*200 – 140*(1-0)(1-.33) + 50 = 117 J10c,18(1-.33)*480 +,33*200 – 140*(1-.18)(1-.33) + 0 = 201.796 As you can see, as the pot gets bigger, 7-2 becomes significantly worse (EV of -$23 in this example) to bluff compared to good draws (one would expect to profit $61 semibluffing J10c here).

Now a note on river play – if you do get to the river with 7-2, then it becomes your best bluff because none of your bluffs have equity but you get the extra bounty with 7-2. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you should always bluff with all combos of 7-2 you get to the river with, but you should defintely bluff all 7-2 combos before adding other bluffs.

• Conclusion The big takeaway is to still be quite aggressive with 7-2 – the extra 30 BB in most circumstances makes it an excellent bluffing candidate.
• This becomes less and less true on later streets, and in bloated pots.
• Just remember to not get too crazy and have it make your ratio of value bets to bluffs go out of whack – with the addition of 7-2 to a bluffing range, remember to value bet extra thinly.

: The 7-2 Game
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What’s the strongest combination in poker?

1. Royal Flush – This is the highest poker hand. It consists of ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. As all suits are equal, all royal flushes are equal.
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What is the hardest hand to get in poker?

Poker-hand rankings: from strongest to weakest – 1. Royal flush The royal flush sits atop the poker-hand rankings as the best hand possible. It features five consecutive cards of the same suit in order of value from 10 through to ace.2. Straight flush Any five cards of sequential values in the same suit that’s not a royal flush is a straight flush.

It can only be beaten by a royal flush or another straight flush including higher-ranking cards.3. Four of a kind The same card in all four suits. The five-card hand is completed by the highest card among the others on the table or in your hand.4. Full house A hand comprising the same value card in three different suits (three of a kind) and a separate pair of the same rank card in two different suits.

When more than one player has a full house the winning hand is the one with the higher or highest value three of a kind.5. Flush Five cards of the same suit in any order whatsoever. When two players have flushes the flush featuring the highest valued card is the winning poker hand.6.

Straight Five cards of sequential numerical value composed of more than one suit. An ace can usually rank as either high (above a king), or low (below a 2), but not both in the same hand.7. Three of a kind A poker hand containing three cards of the same rank in three different suits. The two highest available cards besides the three of a kind complete the hand.8.

Two pairs Two different sets of two cards of matching rank. The highest-ranked remaining card completes the hand.9. Pair A pair of cards of the same rank in different suits. The remainder of the hand is formed from the three highest ranked cards available.10.
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What is cheating called in poker?

Collusion – Collusion is two or more players acting with a secret, common strategy. Some common forms of collusion are: soft play, that is, failing to bet or raise in a situation that would normally merit it, to avoid costing one’s partner or friend money; whipsawing, where partners raise and re-raise each other to trap players in between; dumping, where a cheater will deliberately lose to a partner; and signalling, or trading information between partners via signals of some sort, like arranging their chips in a certain manner.
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How do you detect collusion in online poker?

One of the most efficient systems for detecting collusion in poker games online is by using a player logging system. This system keeps a record or note of all the players who have won against each other in previous poker games.
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How do you collude in online poker?

Creating multiple accounts can be considered collusion in online poker. A player can enter into a poker tournament from multiple accounts and increase the chances of winning and cashing in on the big fat pot of an online tournament.
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What personality types are good at poker?

Sure, you’ve got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em. But more importantly, you need to have the emotional temperament to follow through on that strategy, even when the stakes are high and the pressure is on. That’s the conclusion of a newly published study that examines the personality types of successful poker players.

• Confirming the cliché, it finds such people tend to be cool, calm, and difficult to rattle.
• Writing in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, a research team led by the University of Helsinki’s Michael Laakasuo suggests such steadiness is a prerequisite for developing expertise in the popular card game.

“Higher emotional stability predisposes poker players to continue playing poker,” it writes, “whereby they are likely to accumulate poker experience and skill.” Laakasuo and his colleagues conducted an online survey, in English, featuring 478 poker players.

Participants filled out a detailed survey designed to assess their personality using the HEXACO model, which measures honesty/humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. The “emotionality” trait, which is labeled “neuroticism” in another well-known personality index, reflects one’s “tendency to experience fear, anxiety, and need of assurance.” The researchers note that it, and indeed all personality traits, “are known to be, to a large extent, stable over time,” meaning that it is unlikely they would be impacted by accumulating poker experience.

Participants were also asked how long they have been player poker; the level of stakes they typically play at; the approximate number of hands they have played in their lifetimes; and whether they consider themselves a professional poker player. The results suggest veteran players are, by nature, cool customers.

• A predisposition for emotional stability — that is, lower scores on emotionality — is linked to high levels of poker experience,” the researchers report.
• The effect of emotional stability was most strongly associated with the levels of stakes at which the participant typically played poker,” Laakasuo and his colleagues add.

“This indicates that experienced poker players may have an innate disposition to tolerate mental and emotional pressure, and keep calm while making decisions involving large sums of money.” While this held true across the board, the researchers also found personality differences between people who play online, as opposed sitting around a table with fellow players.

• In-person players tended to score high on extroversion and openness to experience.
• Extroverts seek excitement, activity, and novel experiences,” the researchers note, “and these are probably more often found in live poker rather than in online poker.” So, if the idea of playing poker for a career sounds tantalizing to you, you need to take an honest look at yourself.

If you can analyze the pros and cons of such a move from a detached perspective, and be pretty sure you won’t get caught up in the thrills and agony of wins and losses, you might want to cut a deck of cards and get to work. Pacific Standard grapples with the nation’s biggest issues by illuminating why we do what we do.

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What is the most important skill in poker?

1. Handling Your Finances (Bankroll Management) – There are very few skills in poker as vital as the ability to manage your money. “Your bankroll is your single most important asset, so you need to learn how to handle it properly to succeed in the long run.” Poor bankroll management, playing higher than you can afford, or taking too many shots, are the fastest ways to lose all your money.

This is a lesson many poker players have to learn on their own before realizing there’s simply no way around it. On the bright side, learning to handle your bankroll in poker will help you prepare for other life situations. You will learn key aspects of planning and distributing the funds in the most efficient way, and even taking necessary risks.

Whether in business or on a personal level, this is a very good skill to have.
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What makes pro poker players so good?

The best players in the world are those that are able to grade their opponents and adjust to them quickly. A GTO approach to poker negates the need to adapt to each individual (since it is balanced). But being able to move away from a GTO style to exploit weaker players can be very lucrative.
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Is online poker easier than live?

1. Live Games Tend to Be Much Softer at Comparable Stakes – If you’ve played NL200 or higher stakes online, or heard the stories about it, you’re probably aware these games are tough. Here you’ll find dedicated grinders who know the strategy and don’t make many mistakes.

1. Beating online cash games at these stakes requires a lot of work of the tables.
2. Live games at the same or similar level, on the other hand, are a lot easier.
3. If you’re beating NL200 online, you’ll probably have no problems playing as high as NL1,000 in your local casino.” A decent NL10 online grinder will be a favorite in most NL200 live games.

Even if it seems strange at first glance, there’s a perfectly good explanation for it. Most casinos don’t spread anything below NL200 because it’s not financially feasible, so everyone who wants to play poker has to play these stakes or higher. Online, you can play as low as NL5 if you simply want to have some fun, and many recreational players choose this option.

Because of this, you won’t find many people just looking to blow off some steam in NL200 games online, while you can find plenty of such players in a live setting. Of course, it works both ways. A decent winner in their local 1/2 game sitting down at the same stakes online can be in for a rough ride. You’ll probably need to brush up on your strategy and adopt some new skills before you can become profitable in these games, and you’ll likely need to use tracking software so that you’re not at a disadvantage.

Therefore, when transitioning from one setting to another, be sure to choose an appropriate stake.
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Who is the most successful online poker player?

‘ No one knows this better than the Number 1 poker player Bertrand Grospellier. Bertrand has not only made several million in online poker tournaments but also earned two titles worth $500,000. His passion for the game took him from the online circuit to live tournaments where he made a killing.
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Is there an algorithm for poker?

Algorithm – The algorithm is a numerical approach to quantify the strength of a poker hand where its result expresses the strength of a particular hand in percentile (i.e. ranging from 0 to 1), compared to all other possible hands. The underlying assumption is that an Effective Hand Strength (EHS) is composed of the current Hand Strength (HS) and its potential to improve or deteriorate (PPOT and NPOT): E H S = H S × ( 1 − N P O T ) + ( 1 − H S ) × P P O T where:

E H S is the Effective Hand Strength H S is the current Hand Strength (i.e. not taking into account potential to improve or deteriorate, depending on upcoming table cards N P O T is the Negative POTential (i.e. the probability that our current hand, if the strongest, deteriorates and becomes a losing hand) P P O T is the Positive POTential (i.e. the probability that our current hand, if losing, improves and becomes the winning hand)

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Is GTO the best poker strategy?

GTO Poker Meaning: What Exactly Is GTO? – The term GTO poker strategy comes from “game theory optimal,” the full name of the strategy that was invented over the last decade. Game theory optimal, or GTO poker strategy, is a strategy that seeks complete balance in the game, making your plays 100% unexploitable by your opponents.

• This style of poker is the exact opposite of the exploitative poker strategy, which most players from the older generations employ.
• While exploitative strategy seeks to find holes in other players’ games and use them, GTO poker strategy seeks perfect balance, protecting the player from anyone else exploiting them and gradually creating profit based on imperfect plays by other players.

When playing GTO, you will be bluffing and value betting on every street of every hand with various holdings, and you will not care about what your opponent does. While this may sound like a bad way to play poker at first, GTO is a proven strategy that works like a charm, especially in heads-up poker,

In fact, computers have only been able to really solve heads-up play thus far, but many of the concepts of GTO play can be employed in 6-max games and ring games as well. So, let’s start talking about how the GTO poker strategy actually works and all the game theory concepts you need to understand before you start playing.

Read Fedor Holz’ thoughts on GTO Poker Solvers.
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