I thought i would do something a bit more general and something that probably all viewers are going to be able to take something from i hope at least and the idea today will be to discuss in my view at least in my opinion what are the five biggest leaks or five biggest deviations that i see people making compared to gto okay so if you're here it means that you study
Focus seriously maybe you are already a professional maybe you're trying to become a professional and here at gta wizard obviously we have this amazing platform that helps us study gto but obviously gto is hard right it's not something that is easy enough that you can just browse some sims and learn everything that's why we also thought that having this time here the weekly coaches would
Be beneficial for you guys things you could maybe wake up to maybe you haven't paid attention to this and some things that could be could already be a leak for your game okay so the idea is going to be to be very practical very straight to the point and show you guys some things that i believe you could be doing better and things that are of course that are
Hard at gto land uh but should be our job to try and become better and try and do better all right all right some guys muted themselves okay we have some other people joining we have 35 people at this moment and so we can begin so i'll be trying to interact with you guys through the chat if you want to unmute yourself and ask a question that is no problem
Okay i know that sometimes uh it can be a little bit intimidating to talk but if you are ready for it if you're up to it i think it can be even more interesting in terms of interaction to have you guys talking instead of just typing but feel free to do whatever you like i would just ask that you don't speak at the same
Time someone else is speaking okay but feel free to unmute yourself and talk to me at any given point okay so i'll start by asking you guys uh what are you what do you guys think is maybe one or two leaks you think that is present in most people's games uh that you would like to to to maybe discuss a little bit or in your vision what do you think is a common leak that people have
Compared to gto what is something that solvers do that humans struggle to do a lot of the time let's see if anyone has some ideas and if those ideas match with what i have in mind for today you guys can type you guys can kind of mute and talk uh what what do you guys think are common leaks that population has or poker players professionals have
Compared to gto funky monkey said not enough aggression is a huge one in my opinion when you say aggression are you talk because aggression can be a lot of things right it can be frequency of bats it can be thin value bets you can be raises right it can be bad sizing maybe people use lower bet sizes than solver does aggression is a little bit too big i
Think but it's it's a good point and i think it's a correct one charlie said not check crazy enough single race part and three bet not raising line versus blind enough cool so not play aggressive enough when facing a bet right so the ability to raise and check raise versus that cool very good then set overfolding
Absolutely we're going to we're going to discuss that today sosan 91 said under check raids versus tiny bets so another similar one to to charlie the ability to raise your small bags benjamin the data set value betting what exactly in terms of value betting benjamin do you think it's like hand selection people often check because if you shoot that
Or you think it's related to bet sizing funky monkey said taking advantage of your initiative raising overbatting okay cool israel rodriguez said over folding turn hands gob said not three betting pre enough from the big blind very good one very good one we're not gonna get into this one today but it's certainly a a real one dog z said playing wide ranges in late
Positions i think this is is more going to be a thing for recreational players i think regulars don't make that mistake too often i'm playing two widely positions but certainly recreation was played way way way too wide raphael said not calling enough and not bluffing enough in general okay jackkoff said be unbalanced not bluff
Enough luciano said one very interesting don't protect or range okay and myogen doesn't check all and call enough with the top range okay so maybe something like slow playing the top of the range sometimes right is what you mean i think i would have to agree with with you on that one as well so we can see that you guys have a lot of things on your mind already that at least you sense that
You have a trouble doing this sometimes yourself or maybe you perceive this on other players but pretty much everything that you guys said makes a lot of sense and most of these are real leaks i'm going to go through some that i've listed here and i'm going to use hand examples to show you guys what i mean obviously this is not an extensive list i'm not going to be able to list every
Single lead that i think people have when it comes to applying gto strategies but i think at the top of my head those are the most significant ones that you could also be having a trouble yourself and i think you should implement into your game okay so the first one and i have some notes here in my second monitor that you won't be able to see but it's fine
Maybe in a later moment i can put the notes as well let me get it ready here here i put the notes on the right and i'm gonna put the chat on the left all right so the first one that i think is really really important i feel like even even highest even some high-stakes players can have this leak okay which is the lack of depolarized
Strategies in your game okay so one thing that i see a lot with my students and even when i study high stakes players so a common common study for for for someone playing high stakes is to study the other great players and what i see a lot of times is that there are a lot of nodes where people lack depolarized strategies and i'm going to explain what i mean by
This by using this example here of a three bad pot out of position so in this hand we have a three by part of position small blind versus button so the button opens 2.5 x with three bet the usual 11 big blinds with around 15 enhance i'm not going to go into the pre-flop ranges but if you guys want to take a look at that just let me know and
Then we get this ace 10 4 board in here most people do what also the software does which is blocked bad very frequently you see the solver using here some bigger bats as well a lot of players are just going to simplify to using one sizing on the flop and i think that's totally fine you're not going to lose much at all by removing one of the sizes that is
Not used too much and then they block that the flop and then they get to a random turn and i i selected the specific eight of hearts turn here and what we see from the solver is a very depolarized batting strategy you see that the solver continues to back very frequently around seventy percent of the time and the most frequently used sizing is this blocked bed here it also uses a lot of
The half box sizing and i believe if we allowed it to use a three-quarter sizing it would use it sometimes as well but we see that it really wants to place another tiny bat with many parts of the range so you're going to see stuff like 10x betting super often for a tiny bed pocket jacks that is super often almost never check pocket queens pocket kings and then
Pocket aces also betting with the small size very often a lot of people even people like 500s and rags and even some some high-stakes rags are going to play a very polarized strategy on this note they're just going to check the middling hands and then bat recorders with ace queen plus so the problem with this is that you're going to be playing a strategy that is
Always checking very very frequently and allowing your opponent to realize they're angry by checking behind okay so this is something that a lot of the times you see the server avoids the solver avoids having these super high checking frequencies by playing depolarized strategies and when the server plays depolarized strategies with a protected range okay so you can see that
Just because it's a depolarized strategy it's not a capped range so you're going to see ace is going to that range even a scheme going to that range very frequently so you play a strategy where you prevent your opponent from uh having both things the opportunity to check behind if he wants and the opportunity to polarizing himself against you and driving the view of their bluff
Catchers towards zero okay so this is something someone among somebody who would post they had links and chats we can have to manually do so we don't have to manually do that just like this you mean let me know if that works yeah that makes sense you guys can follow along on your browser as well so this is something that is very common to see at low stakes so you can very
Rarely see someone playing these kinds of strategies on lower stakes it has become more common at higher stakes but even at high stakes i feel like people are still not doing it enough okay and this introduces obviously this introduces a level of complexity to your strategy right and this is something that generates a lot of debate for people who are trying to become
Professionals or are trying to improve in poker do i simplify my life by playing a simplified strategy and then making it less likely that i will make mistakes or do i increase complexity into my strategy with the hopes that i'll make less mistakes than my opponents so i think this is a fair debate and i think
Depending on the level you are right now depending on which stage you are in your career you're going to have different answers for this question uh but ultimately i think if your goal is to continuously move up mistakes you have to be ready to add complexity to your strategy okay so complex simplicity is very nice when you still haven't matured in your knowledge when you still feel insecure about certain place but you got to be
Ready to increase complexity and thankfully for us we have this amazing platform that is gta wizard where we can practice right we can drill the spots we can study the solutions so don't be afraid of adding complexity to your strategy then ask does the people are strategy added in the spot if people aren't going to call wide enough on the turn so
So you seem to be making an assumption that your opponent could be overfolding is that it yeah so there are many ways to answer your question one thing one way to answer this would be that gto is never going to have a strategic option that doesn't add ev to the strategy it may not add too much but if it's being used it's because it adds
Some okay so first of all is to understand that this adds a v2 strategy against gto opponent if then your opponent is uh in balance in a way he's not responding correctly to this back sizing then you're certainly gonna add ev to your strategy with some parts of your range okay so what would be the parts i'm gonna revert this back to the chat what parts of our range here would have
Their ev increased if the ip decides to fold more than the buttons holding here what do you guys think which hands are going to have their ev increase if the ip let's say starts over 40 pocket knights starts folding seven spear instead of calling sometimes what else uh maybe he's going to lack razors as well his hands like pocket twos pocket threes raising a lot but
You're guessing no one wants to take a step the sensor the merge part like 10x and bluffs bluffs and all vulnerable hands over folding third pair worse yeah so the first obvious answer would be the air right so the air component of your range obviously makes much more money when feeling checked that when phil unfolds then when he calls so pretty much any air type hand that is betting here is
Going to have their easy increase so we're banning hands here such as jack knight we're betting hands here such as king queen jack queen jack so all those hands are going to have their v increase every time the button decides to fold more than he's supposed to at equilibrium and then very well put by some people uh some vulnerable hands some marginal hands will also have their ev increased okay because you would rather get a fold
When you bet with the hand like let's say some hands that were betting here pocket sevens so if you're betting here with pocket seven you would rather get a fold than to get a call okay so all of these uh relatively marginal hands that you're putting into your blockback range here will also have their ev increased if your opponent decides to
Miss some calls okay obviously the top of your range might lose a little bit of ev but every deviation that villain makes compared to equilibrium will increase in your very strategy okay so uh you don't have to worry about that if he makes a mistake of holding too much you will make more money than you should
And that's already enough reason for you to not be concerned too much obviously this might cause you to want to play the top gear range in maybe some different ways but the point is if you stick to that strategy you will make more money than you should right so uh this is just one example where you're going to have these depolar strategies this is
Mostly happens out of position so auto position is really costly for you to always keep polarizing your ranges and checking super often and allowing your opponent to polarize himself okay so uh if you're playing and we're we're going to be playing our position a lot of the times so we're going to be playing three bad parts of the position super often we're going to be playing singer it's
Not our position very often so every time you play a super polarized charities and you fail to include these people rs charges you will have your ev decreased okay and sometimes you might even you might you might even end up making more mistakes because of that one common mistake that people do when they don't play depolarized strategies is that they also in the process
End up capping their checking range so you're going to see that here even with the strategy that includes the block by sizing you still have to check a screen at some frequency you still have to check its jack very often you have to check 10 super often you have checked aces sometimes so it's very easy for someone to construct a strategy where they just
Pure bat a speed plus and then have all these kings queens jacks in their checking range so if you do that you definitely can get exploited by a lot by the opposition player okay dragon super s so is the turn the main street we can depolarize i would say in all streets you're going to see a lot of depolarized strategies on the flop we obviously see a lot
The block bed size is the most frequent one when it comes to c-bending on the flop you see that on the turn a lot pretty much any line double barrel line the lacy bed line and you see that a lot on rivers as well uh the only line on the river where you're not going to see too many people are aspects is when your range construction is very
Polar which usually happens on continuous aggression lines so when i say continued aggression i just mean that you made an aggressive action on the previous streets so imagine you back flop and turn generally gonna get to the river with a very polarized distribution you have some very strong hands and some very bad hands then in those cases it's very rare that you're going to have
A deep polarized charity because you simply don't have middling strength hands in your range okay but pretty much any other line you're going to see the solver playing very deep polarized okay you're going to see some other examples as we go through today with the other links all right so this would be an example here i think turn double barrel is where people use
The least uh as i mentioned you're going to have some depolarized bats in the lacy beds as well so let's imagine let's take a different board here let's imagine the flop board was jack no jack h6 okay jack h6 so all the swap we're going to see that we size up more often than not so we're going to be even using some over bats in the swap
Let's imagine the turn goes jack jack and let's say we get a king turn okay off suit king so we're going to see that on the off suite king we also play a very deep power ride strategy we're going to have a lot of over bets of course because the king hits a range we're also going to have a lot of half pots and a lot of blocking bats as well and i think on this line a lot of people
Are already aware they have to play a more depolarized batting strategy but a lot of people still are just polarizing to king x plus and checking the rest that's certainly going to be a mistake and you're going to lose some ev by doing that all right so you see here for example even a head as weak as pocket nines rock batting super often
You have a hand like uh nine eight so third pair here going for the block that 10 8 then you have all sorts of hints like intense and then also some unique jackets and then you also get to have the portion of the range that wants to pour rice so these things are not mutually exclusively exclusive uh you can definitely have some portions of a range that benefit from polarizing
And supporting the range the benefit depolarized but the point is that if you keep just checking seventy percent of your range you just make your opponent's life very very easy okay so that would be the first thing i want to point out when you're studying with gto make sure you give yourself time to study these strategies and implement
Them into your game and one very good bonus you're going to have with these content strategies is that it's really hard for upon us to react properly we saw that previous example i'm going to come back to it because it's even more illustrative of this point which is that when you play that strategy you force your opponents to develop significantly
While raising strategies okay because if if the imposition player here makes a mistake of not raising too much price or polarized bets again you're going to have very increased and you're going to be able to exploit that opponent by shifting all those mixed strategies to pure strategies okay so we see head the imposition player is making our 10x difference between blocking and checking
But you're going to see that this this strategy flight ap player is not very easy at all he has to find uh 30 of raises with the smallest sizing and this includes some non-intuitive plays like taking a random 10 and raising uh raising a lot of asex even once with not very strong kicker like ace nine and a bunch of bluffs with the pocket parrot region like deuces threes
Fives and some five four so you're going to put your opponent in a tougher spot than if you just keep checking 70 of your range okay and every time he makes a mistake of not raising enough here you increase the view of your strategy with this part that is being made different by the gto player okay and i believe this will happen very often in practice let's see if there's someone else
Waiting to be accepted thanks for a heads up yes there are eight people on the limbo here thank you thank you match uh the gto keep depolarizing the river after depolarized times sea bass the lazy bats very good question from benjamin and this is usually going to be true and it's going to be true because you have
A you have a depolarized range construction here so you have a bunch of middling strength hands padding so if you have a river that doesn't change the equities too much then you again you have a situation where you have a bunch of building straight hands that benefit from getting small and you can still do that so let's imagine you bet this guy called and what would be a perfect
Blank here guess i guess a2 would be blank enough so if you have a two and here's a strategy graduate player we have 38 percent of blocks again on this river so the reason for this is of course again you have a range composition and we can take a look at the accurate distribution graph here and
Blue is the small blind green is the button so if we go from here this would be roughly i guess these numbers are the equities so this is maybe something like 30 from 35 of a range maybe i would say 35 to 35 of a range to let's say something like 60 percent of a range you have middling strain hands you have hands that have middling equity
That benefit from very small so you're going to see the solver putting those small bands there okay so whenever you have this range construction where you have a bunch of feeling straight hands and you have good hands as well as to not be exploited right this is important you can't just be putting a lot of clean value bats in a spot where you can't okay because your opponent is just going
To martyr with artery with raises but this is a spot where you still get you with a bunch of aces you still get here with some tens even though you're checking because you belong check back range but you have it in your range you have a bunch of two pairs you have a bunch of these sex so you're very well protected in a sense that feeling can't just be super aggressive
Against your blocks otherwise he's going to run into the nuts too often okay so this is going to happen very good question by my benjamin is hayao asks when you start to depolarize in the turn see that hands like queens the next name for eight if you're going online on the river with the strong hands and you check our bad small river your check and small bed range would be weaker to
Exploit with well this is basically on what i'm saying here right so you're going to add complexity that's in fact and you're going to be able to include heuristics in your game that allow you to not be super exploitable so for example one very good heuristic you're going to have is that very good hands that block your opponent's check back range will often go to the checking range so here yes you have a bunch of hands that
Want to check which are the 10x combos and then if you only check 10x you would be exploited by the ap player but here you see that the solver places 10 as a pure jack on the river because if you take a look at the checkback range by the ap player pretty much all of the position players check back range are going to contain a 10 not all but very frequently
A 10 is going to be a part of your opponent's jackpack range so when you have tense you get back into more often which increases and then with aces for example ace is going to be indifferent between betting have fought and betting and block sizing and it never gets to go in because it has heavy blockers to quality range this is heuristic that you can use as well if you block your opponent's calling
Range when you size up too much then that's probably a reason why you should size down so here if you apply those heuristics you're going to be very well protected from getting exploited you have ac your broadband range and you do that because you block too much of the calling range when you size up and you have tens in your checking range because that blocks your opponent check behind range okay so two simple but very effective
Heuristics that you get to use on this spot okay creatine set do you recommend to start using these 20 percentage sizes on ace and four eight boards i'm used to do 33 flop and turn yeah so pretty much let's say i'd say like ninety percent of pools on low stakes use the 30 sizing that's the sizing that became mainstream let's say four years ago when i was moving up in stakes i saw
That that was being used a lot there was a lot of a lot of hype to that sizing but if you solve a lot of flops and run a lot of negative reports you see that the 33 is not really the preferred by the solver okay the server does use much more often than 25 which is one that i use a lot and the solver even uses as small as ten percent of the pot a lot of the time okay so
Uh if you want to be super accurate and super precise i would say you should drop the 33 and use uh 125 and maybe even have a 10 bad size in your arsenal uh but of course tvs are going to be similar okay if you played that 33 sizing with the right frequencies you should be able to retain 99 percent of the ev okay but when it comes to exact software
Solutions solver does like to size down a bit more right i'm gonna move on because i spent 30 minutes on just the first and we have more things to talk about but hopefully this one was an interesting one for you guys so you can start implementing into your game make sure you make a lot of drills all right it's not like you're going to be able to implement this correctly
From night to day you have to deal with these spots you have to try and make sense of the things that are happening so make sure you use the practice mode to prepare yourself for these spots michelle parmentier [Music] that's probably french i don't know how to pronounce it so i'm sorry how do you differentiate between spots where
You should depolarize between spots where you should equalize and those rates matter to polarize how often does it happen op versus that's a really good question but also a a very complex one answer there are going to be some some let's say criteria or let's say circumstances that favor one strategy or the other it definitely happens way more often out of position than in position because in position you
Don't really need depolarized strategies to increase our heat you can just check behind when you're out of position the problem of checking so often is that you still need village check behind for you to realize you're acting so it's a better way to realize your acne by betting small then check okay there are many reasons for this that i won't be able to get into this today
But the point is out of position it happens way more often than in position okay but it does happen in position sometimes uh and one point that you should keep in mind for out of this to be polarizing is that first of all you need to have really straight hands in your range right so if you don't have middling straight hands in the range then there's no point in playing a table or a strategy you just want to
That big with your hands and then balance with gloves so first of all you have to have milling straight hands in your range uh you have to have some nuts in your range otherwise you can get exploited so you're never going to see silver or very rarely going to see solar depolarizing when it lags nuts okay because then you can just you just get marked by the ap player so these these two things are
Necessary conditions for you to find those depolarized strategies okay uh all right so let's move on to the second leak [Music] the second link i think is one that people have become increasingly better at at reducing loosely i would say but it still happens a lot and i would say even at higher stakes certainly at 500 new
And certainly summer eggs at high stakes which is the lack of over best okay so you're going to see that well this is no limit holding right and for a lot of years uh looking back now from the years i started obviously it was times where people were still not using solvers too much and there was not too much knowledge around what optimal strategies look like but looking back now it felt like
It felt like this is spot limit holding oh yeah very rarely you would see people over betting and putting people in tough spots and going all in for massive bets and then this has increasingly become more common uh as the solvers became popular and at high stakes i would say you see it a lot uh but at mid stakes and lower you very rarely see it
And it's something that can have a significant impact to your dvd okay so uh lack of over bets i would say is a very significant leak that most mid stakes all the stakes players have so i have two examples here of some situations where you can start implementing bigger the first one is a c bad spot so we open 2.5 here on the button and we get called by the big blind the flop is ace king 7
If we went back 3 years from today you would see 99.9 percent of people see betting range for one third of this board right but then solvers start to become more popular people started to investigate a little bit more and get more curious and make different sims and people start to see oh wow we should really be getting our hands on these kinds of boards and we should
Actually be putting lots of pressure to the big blind scouts these double broadly two-tone boards are ones in which you're going to see the button playing a lot of over bats as the flops okay and it makes perfect sense you have a composition of ranger you have an advantage and you have a ton of hands that have no interest in increasing the size of the pot
So if you take a look at these they absolutely want to check they have no reason of 40 months to put and the reason for this is that first of all some of these don't require any protection let's take a look at queens for example queens there are no over cards to queens on a skiing board there's no weak hands that you would like him to fall
And once you bat small and get called villain has a lot of asacs and king accents range so every time you put one into the pot with these hands you decrease your accurate versus continuing range okay so you're going to see the solver just pure jacking back to his hands and then of course mixing some checks with asak's hands but mostly pure betting with ace queen
Plus and then some other hands okay so uh i would say the second link i see a lot for people is just uh not sizing up enough when their range allows them to so flop is uh is one of the examples where you can place overlaps where people normally don't and there are many tactics where you can do this one example is uh double broadly
Two-tone another example are lower textures where you have ex insane advantage on over pairs so let's say you have a board like this 1083 [Music] and villain checks you go ahead and fire 80 percent of your range with the overbet sizing uh you see there are a lot of three-quarter bats as well if you want
To simplify just the over bet i think is totally fine and you're going to see some very frequent bets here in a spot where if you bend small you just allow your opponent to continue with a super wide range and you get raised quite frequently which reduces the realization of many other middle extreme hands so you don't want to get here and bat fold with pocket sevens you know
That would be stupid so you just go ahead and check behind so you just polarize your betting range and start placing bigger bets okay so flop is one instance where you can start doing this and putting more pressure to your opponent's cap range and another very significant example is double barrel strategies as well when you rip you can be ipo oop whenever you have a very high spr
And you have a very significant advantage you see the solver placing very frequent over best okay uh is over bad 3e sizing i think on these simulations you three for people that don't know is just a how do i say this nomenclature is is a word it's just an annotation that pl solver uses to refer to the geometric bad sizing so three is geometric sizing for three
Streets uh i don't think the seven here's the geometric size but it doesn't matter all that much okay all that matters is that you should be betting bigger than the size of the pot in these situations the eight nine three two tone has more of a bet than this one yes that should have a little bit more but it's all very similar anyway okay so imagine you have a king seven deuce rainbow board now you're at the
Bottom of your speed blind you're going to be see betting most of your range on this texture as it's a very favorable for you so we have you even gto just put batting the sport okay call and the turn is a queen so now when the turn is a queen you have a very significant advantage in the top equity heads so we're taking a look again at the graph here you see that pretty
Much any part of the top end of hands you're going to have a significant advantage in equity here any amount of hits so your range is just strong enough to start placing something that's here we have 160 percent of the pot i would guess that if you would allow even a bigger bank it would be used here and then you put a lot of pressure to
The big bite range and you make sure you capture uh the most amount of value with the top of your range okay and not getting the most value at the top of your range is going to be a very costly leak for your ring rate okay so if you're constantly betting two thirds three-quarters half part when your range one's too bad to xbot that's certainly gonna add up to your uv okay so make sure you
Are squeezing the most value possible out of your strongholds yes the size used by two is slightly greater than three for the spot yes it is but it doesn't really matter too much okay you don't the the geometric sizing is not necessarily the highest tv sizing it's just a easy to use one okay so make sure you're placing your bats and there are going to be many many
Spots where you can be including over that's including river spots okay so flap spots turn spots river spots whenever you can identify that your range has significantly more strong hands than your opponent you should be sizing up with your range okay so put tons of pressure whenever you can identify that your opponent lacks
The strong hands in his range and you know this is gto land in practice land against humans you're going to see that this opportunity is going to open up to you way more often than it should because there are a lot of players that play unbalanced strategies on prior streets which make the which makes their range capped more than they should
On the further streets okay so here we see uh the solver software's already playing a very aggressive strategy with check raises uh it's check raising pure almost all of the two pair plus uh but imagine the solver wasn't doing this and the population is therefore villain gets to the turn with the more capturing than you shoot and you get to size up into a range
Because you have more equity okay so in practice i would say you have even more opportunities to do this to put more pressure to opponent's range than the solver because people are not very good at playing mixed strategies they're not very good at protecting their range as i think someone said in the beginning right when i was asking i think two or three people said that people are not very good at
Protecting their range or check calling the top of the range that's absolutely true so if you can have high confidence that your opponent is doing this then you have incentive to be even more aggressive in the solver when it comes to your bad sizing okay so that's the second leak i would like to tell you guys the third one is also one that i think some of you mentioned when i asked
Which is let me get this in a sec how the recreational generally reacts over best is it common for people to wrongly call more versus over that's than pod bats because they believe you're more poor uh fab you i know okay for i've done research population tendencies for years and i've never seen people over calling versus older vets okay i've never seen people calling more of our silver vets compared to what the
Solver does so i would say this it's pretty much never gonna happen well never is a very strong word right so let's not say never but i would say very difficult yeah guys again i'm talking a lot here if you want to interrupt me and ask a question just feel free okay if you want to see something in the simulation as well just let me know uh now to the third one the third one is i
Think is a massive one massive one and it is one that funny enough gets naturally exploited by how population plays when they are in the opposite situation and i'll explain you guys understand so the third one i think is lack of raises okay lack of raises and when i say raises
It is general just as i'm saying it raises everywhere but i selected a particular spot but this is going to become very evident for you guys how aggressive gto is with raises and how population and even yourself most likely is leaking a lot in this spot okay so now we are on the same board so king seven deuce and then the turn of the queen but
Instead of double barreling we decided to check behind so we decided to check behind and this is the strategy for the opposition player on the river and i selected a very blank river like defined here it's not necessarily the most blank possible because interacts with some ends but it should be should be blank enough and first thing you're going to see is a
Very deep polarized strategy here with the 7x region which a lot of people don't do so a lot of people just take the 7x and put in their checking range uh and you see the solver is just pure batting these hands with the block sizing so again an evidence of the lack of depolarized strategies that we mentioned in the first place and then against the sizing this is a one-quarter
Part size bed the button should be playing a very aggressive rating strategy of almost 26 percent raising frequency here with 15 of small raises and 11 of big bases and even a hint like queen jack which is second pair here and not the strongest kicker is pure raising small against the block size and then you're going to see a bunch of kleenex
Asmix strategy raises and of course you're going to have all these uh air combos being played as raises as well so for humans i would say even for high stakes players it's really hard to get this such an aggressive raising strategy with with all these hands like taking all these errors and mixing into raises and most importantly i feel taking these second pairs and mixing into raises now you have to
Do this unless you become exploitable by the big blind and he can start block betting first of all shifting these big strategies towards pure strategy bets because you're not punishing them enough with raises and even start blocking some even weaker hands so i've take a look at pocket six in here take a look at the evs so the view of block betting six is already quite close to checking
Uh if the ip player starts not raising enough then very quickly these hands are going to become pure block bets for a definition player and you guys to squeeze more ev out of the pot okay so i would say people really really struggle you probably really really struggle with this and you have to start implementing more raising your strategy making your
Opponents life a little bit harder right just and there are even some people that just call top pair in the spots like the guy takes king three and just pure calls that would be a very significant mistake uh we're going to see here the differences is point final big blind here of course isolated in one combo in one
Spot is not going to be much but if you take that 0.5 big 0.5 oblique blind per hand across multiple combos in a range across multiple different spots this is going to add up very quickly to your strategy okay so make sure you also understand your necessity for finding raises in spots and punishing people from betting too much and as i was saying i think this leak of
The player pool gets exploited by itself in a natural way because people tend to bet or that they shoot a lot of spots so if you're not punishing people with raises you are going to be naturally exploited by what your opponents are doing we saw in that in that hand with the ace where this is this is another example where let's say you're playing versus a very strong opponent
Who identifies that he has depolarized on these asex boards if you all of a sudden start missing all those mixed charity races then the v for him to be banning all those building hands skyrockets okay so make sure you study these grids and get more comfortable with playing more aggressive strategies i know this is this can be hard because sometimes it
It conflicts with some beliefs that we have that make us play more needy so we have some preconceptions that you know second pair is not worth the raise so you never raise that even though it's pure raised gto end so get rid of some free misconceptions and start studying these grids so that you can play more aggressive if we assume the field is not depolarizing enough isn't a good exploit
To raise or polarize ourselves yes if you have absolute confidence let's say that this player never blocked that 7x then for sure the exploit for you would be to start just calling with the queen x combos but again we're talking about here you attempting to find the proper gto plane if your opponent is making a mistake and you are
And you are playing the gto strategy you will make more money than him now if you want to play max exploit that's a different thing okay so if you want to counter your opponent's imbalances then i would say you have to study population tendencies and you have to use the proper models to to get to the right conclusions okay because it's very easy to make wrong assumptions
It's very easy to justify explanative place that are not necessarily backed up by data okay so yes you are correct in your assumption but first of all try to understand how you should play yourself correctly in theory and then if you want to dig deep into explorative poker then make sure you're gathering data about how your opponents are playing
Okay but good question all right this is one so you're going to see this happen in a lot of different situations i think some people mentioned raising blind versus blind versus seabeds i think i have one hand here where we can cover this yeah so for example we have here king 83 board this is small blind versus big blind so you're going to be opening the small blind getting caught by the big blind
You're going to be spending a lot of the small size in here the suburbs do check yet third of the range here a lot of people are going to be just betting range on this board giving that it's a dry key high board and then when they bet the big blind has to come up with 16 of raises if we sum up the total frequencies here and it's going to have a lot of mixed strategies in the top pair region and
Even some big strategies with the second pair region so you have a lot of 8x raising and a lot of random air as well with backdoors so imagine you're playing against an opponent that wants to simplify their life in their betting entire range so they're betting entire range they're betting more than they should and you're making their life even easier by not
Finding the proper gto raises so if you play that strategy you're certainly giving out pv to report okay all the hands that he has that would be mixed strategies at equilibrium now suddenly become very clear bets and make much more money by betting because you're just not punishing them enough with raises okay so the first step for you should be to always at least find the amount of ways that gto
Finds if later you want to study your population you'll see that they're doing something differently that incentivizes you to maybe uh counter them a certain way that's great but first of all you have to get familiar with the grids in the in the sovereign land to to at least be able to be meeting these frequencies okay and it's not easy at all you're
Going to see some hands like four deuce suited raising a bunch of 3x raising uh what else a bunch of asex obscu cans raising here so if you have never studied these grids it's very easy to play these hands as pure calls and all of a sudden instead of raising 16 you're raising 10 and then your opponent just gets to that 82 cards into you okay so make sure you're uh polishing your game in a direction of at
Least finding the proper amount of raises that the gto strategy uh requires all right awesome the fourth one that i would like to point out is lack of bluff catches so someone pointed this out i think the beginning uh by using the term overfolding right and when we say overfolding which is me that
The situation in which we believe people are folding a bit more than what the solver solution suggests and i picked up an example here where we open the button for 2.5x we get three back of the small blind and then we call and then we have a low board on the flop something like 10 74 it could be in a little work because you're going to see similar defense strategies on
These little boards so we have a 10-7-4 board villain is mostly going to size up uh block batting on the sport is going to be really terrible because your opponent gets to float everything so you don't make you almost don't make any hand in different when you size this much any hand is a plus if you continue for your opponent so make sure you size up and
While you do size up uh you do about half pot you could even have some two thirds but i believe here on this board and then you call a feeling that's you call i think the turn i had here was blank i think yeah something like three [Music] uh here we have this uh 67 bet you're going to see some raising strategies here so again it could be a node where you're lacking
Raises you're going to see sovereign pure shopping 76 uh pure shopping 10 9 push up ace 10. so it's a spot where the pot is already very big and you want to deny realization to some of the over cards that your opponent has uh that has two overs to pretty much all your bluff reactions here so you just go ahead and shove so let's say you call and let's say the river i put the queen
I think yeah and then there's just like 44 percent of the pot behind villain gems and then you're going to be forced calling down with some hands that most people consider very weak in terms of absolute strength and they are indeed very weak but the thing is that you don't really have a super strong range on a low
Disconnected board and of course the bed sizing is small enough that if you start overflowing here all of the air in their opponent's range is going to have very increased so you're going to see six is calling two thirds of the time or sixty percent of the time i would say uh forty percent of the time calling pocket fives pure calling down pocket nines
Almost and then a bunch of seven x also calling the spot with eight seven being a pure call so it's very easy for a lot of players to just go ahead and say okay oh he's really strong my hand is really weak i'm just going to fold but you could also be getting naturally exploited by your opponents okay because it's very easy for people to just barrel on these little boards with their
High cards so if you play a strategy that is over fooling in a spot where your opponent could be potentially bluffing a little bit too much then you're going to lose a lot of vb so make sure you are finding these calls don't be afraid of pressing the call button there's a lot of people that have this speaking section that everyone under bluffs so i have to fold
Everything that's not true okay that's not true uh of course there are some situations in which people can't find the proper bluffing frequencies but from my experience even at low stakes you're not going to find many people they are just playing completely valued strategies that they don't have bluffs okay so make sure you're finding the
Calls that you have to make because you could be getting naturally exploited by your population and this this comes with experience and again i heavily encourage you guys to use the practice mode the practice mode is to me one of the best possible ways for you to improve at poker when trainers came up i think the first trainer to come up
Was uh um yeah i think it was super tricky trainer back in 2000 2018 19 maybe um and then i was i was really hyped about it because we never had those twos where we could just drill spots over and over until we understand how it works and then i think gto wizard makes this extremely easy for us you can drill any spot that you want you
Can practice the entire hand or practice specific spots and this helps you build your intuition around how to play certain spots because let's be honest if you're just grinding you're not going to have too much experience in some very specific notes they're just not going to happen very often so it's extremely extremely important that you use this function to get more familiar with the spots and
To tune your intuition right to to get better at identifying how the gtl solution plays out okay funky monkey said how much would you be adjusting the spot on a high rank environment where the amount of the pot you will be winning is smaller so this is a very good question and rake does impact defense frequencies okay because whenever you win the pot
You know when the full pot however the way that most sites seem to work is that they keep uh they keep charging the rake per street so you go from pre-flop to the flop they charge five percent you go from flop to the turn they charge five percent if the cap hasn't been hit and you go from the turn to the river they charge by a percent if the cat
Hasn't been hit okay so by the time you get to the river that cap has been hit way long before okay so in these big pots on the river i don't think it's much of a concern but it does impact let's say flop defense strategies swap defense frequencies uh if you go from 5k and l to 50 now you're certainly going to have very different defense strategies okay but for these spots i don't think it's
Going to matter much uh how about the if you have these hands which we should be calling shoe should be should be us looking for some specific eevee i mean more than one ev five eight zero b something like that um okay so of course the biggest mistake you can make is folding a hand that is pleasing right so if you pull the hand that is
Plus cv because poker is a zero sum game every ev that you fail to win goes to your opponent so let's say you have jack 10 here so the view of calling jack then is 30 big lines if you somehow fold jack then that's 30 big blinds that's going to our opponent's direction okay so obviously don't make the mistake of folding pure strategies that would be insane but
Even if you fold zero ev hands that are mixed strategies uh you're still going to be losing a v if your opponent adjusts okay if your opponent plays a fixed strategy where he's just playing his thing he's playing gto let's say and you over fold the mixed charge region then you're not going to be losing much uv but then the exploit for your opponent is very easy he just fires all
His blocks and at the time he starts doing that you start losing a lot of evil and i think that's a way that a lot of people play okay they they don't control their frequencies with their over cards and they're going to end up over bluffing so if you over fold the mixed strategy region you're first you're going to be giving rpd okay so that's about it
What about 3-betting in gg with pre-flop rate guys don't make random questions about very specific situations okay because then i would i would need to have five hours of of coaching here to address everything let's try to to to discuss what we're we're trying to see here okay uh the final one i'm not gonna have time to get into it
Uh it's an important one so i may leave this for for a future future lesson uh but i believe these four ones are very relevant and you can start paying you can start paying more attention to this in your game okay so just recap depolarized strategies it's very clear to me that most people lack this in their game so make sure you
Study how to depolarize your range in spots where the gto strategy requires you to do so okay so this is going to be very frequent in most automation modes flop turn and a lot of times on the river depolarized strategies over backs make sure you put pressure into your opponent's range whenever you have nut advantage okay so this is going to be double
Barrel ranges triple barrel ranges and even flopsy bat ranges depending on the board okay lack of raises make sure you're finding the proper raises otherwise you could be naturally getting exploded by the population by the profiles that that too much so make sure you study the grids to find the proper raising strategies and lack of bluff catchers make sure you also don't over fold
Okay don't be afraid of clicking the call button sometimes this is very psychological you feel like you click call with sixes villain shows king queen and then you think you got owned or then you think you just lost the stack okay it's very difficult for this car to be very minor cd you have decent blockers so even your opponent plays a slightly unbalanced
Strategy it's not like you're losing your entire stack okay you might be losing one big line with your call maybe two big lines you're never going to be losing your entire stack with your call because people do have bluffs even if they under bluff by a little it's not like you're losing 50 big blinds 40 big blinds with their call okay so make sure you find the proper defense frequencies
On the river all right guys uh hopefully this was insightful for you guys i'm gonna leave maybe one two minutes for you guys to ask questions if you have any and then we can wrap it up right what did you think of this format did you guys enjoy it did you like it um please leave feedback on the gto words of discord so that we can come up
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Cover formats and so on okay i'm open to any suggestion all right sounds like people liked it very happy about it guys very happy then asked what would you say the best way to integrate these upgrades is using gto wizard using the reports to understand frequencies and then drilling or just drilling and learning from mistakes or some other technique awesome awesome
Question by dan so i talk a lot about this in my very first video for what it once it was a very well liked video let me show it to you guys here i think one of them is one of the most liked videos on where it was for the past few years and obviously maybe you don't have a subscription there but if you do i would strongly suggest you watch that video because
I think it's a it's basically what you're asking so i'm just going to bring it up here to talk about it so in this video it's called a systematic process for strategic development so here at the bottom where's my very first video we run it was back in 2019 and basically i tried to to to give the viewers a very clear idea of how i think
A very good process for integrating gto looks like and for sure i would say use aggregated reports i can get reports i want the best ways to integrate gto concepts because it gives you a very clear idea of what the highest euv strategic options are for any given spot okay so if you can study with aggregation reports you're definitely going to improve much
Faster because you're going to be able to identify which nodes what are the most uh the highest tv studio options and you're going to see for example i think i'll get a report for the turn are soon to come right match if matt is here he can tell us when turn and video reports are going to come uh this is an awesome way to study for sure you're going to be able to see
Weak spots you have to depolarize your range for example so i would say static negation reports get a feel of which nodes play weeds to precautions and then drill a lot i would say drilling is the best thing that you can do for your game to really quickly integrate how to play different spots and drilling with immediate feedback is the best thing
Possible because you get to know right at the moment what mistake that you made what was the frequency all this and that in our brains our brains are really good at uh identifying patterns right so if we can use your brain for for what it for it does well which is identifying patterns we're absolutely awesome at identifying patterns then this is going to be a very good
Format for you to learn okay of course i also i also always suggest students to study a lot with toy games to to understand why if you don't do something then why is it bad for you that you're not doing that so i would say a mix of both things should be really nice so again reports with drills should be a very practical way of improving and then studying toy games as well so that you
Can understand why you have to do the thing that the solver is telling you to do you know because i think both things need to need to happen for you need to understand the why and the how it's basically the y and the hub okay so matt said that turn reports are top priority for us but they're going to be soon awesome
Awesome is going to be amazing and we're going to have a lot of types of new solutions amazing as well and we introduce guides on how to study and detail some plans for you so it's easier for you you don't have to think what i should be doing today that's a very common struggle for for most even professional players and like what i'm going to do today they sit in front of the computer and they're
Like okay like what do i do now and yeah so gta wizard is awesome in that regard you have this entire platform built for you to not have to waste any mental energy deciding how to do or where to do or when to do you just sit and you have all this platform for you all right so if you haven't yet subscribed for the love of god why are you waiting
And i'm not just saying this because i am a partner of gta wizard proudly a part of part of gta wizard i'm saying this because this platform is insane okay if you still haven't subscribed you are making a mistake i have total confidence in saying this you are making a mistake if you're still not a premium user all right all right guys that's it for today hope
You liked it and if you are a premier user i see you next week all right bye bye guys thanks for watching
