Say NO to GTO 

Sure, a weaker player’s instincts are a lot worse than a stronger one’s but so is their conscious deliberation. There is a big difference between good honed instincts based on things the player understands and biased desire seeking impulses. Even weak losing players have an A Game mode which if they could access more often they could make some good instinctive decisions based on their understanding of their opponent’s range.

@@CarrotCornerPoker for sure, but the examples in the video for "saying no to GTO" are solver analysis based exploits that won't be necessarily intuitive to most. I find the distinction between instincts from fear/desire useful bit also tricky as the player may have the right instinct that a spot is underbluffed but then wonder if that's an actual instinct or a fear from putting money on an uncomfortable spot. A good poker instinct will be built with experience and study and for sure one will do well by listening to their instinct. But it's also true that many good and optimal strategies are not intuitive for human cognition and the examples on the video are based on high level understanding of the game. I loved the hand reviews as always, just unsure if the anti-GTO, pro instinctive play is the best framing for the exploits presented.

Well my position is that we can say no to GTO in quite a few spots without fucking it across the board.

@@CarrotCornerPoker I think Gto learning is important to understand thresholds, then trying to imagine how those thresholds would change according to your perception of the opponents strategy, aka if something is a range bet board and opponent is checking 50% how does our strategy change. Not an exact example but relating it to human play is so important of course

I’m sure it a fine approach, but there might be some hands we want to exploitatively bet in overstabbed spots instead of check/folding.

Funny, in the KT spot I often assume if players check behind twice that they are more likely to have thin value as they would (delay) cbet their air earlier. And just showdown ace high ofc

Yes this is exactly what we do in Cash Injection!

Yes!

Dont listen to him

Send me money then

Maybe you’ll fuck up a lot at first, but learning to spot the difference between theory and practice is a skill you will need to develop sooner or later and I think sooner is better when it comes to this one.

I agree with the gist of this. How good your instincts are is definitely dependent on level of experience and skill, however I think some players learning the game spend too much time thinking about factors that don’t mater and living and dying by the verdict of their training software. This video is about how to develop the skills to listen to yourself when you think a spot is played considerably differently to how a solver tells you it’s played. I appreciate at first that you may have no concept of this but then you’ll also have no idea why the solver spits out what it does either. I agree that by far the biggest problem with people stuck at low stakes is that they’re risk adverse and don’t really grapes where EV comes from. I may well do a video to the effect of ‘You’re all huge nits’ - it sounds harsh but it’s true that awful redline and mental game issues to do with risk as a massive part of what holds people back. Now where I disagree is the word ‘disingenuous’ - it’s not my intention to make people think they can do something they can’t. If anything, it’s pitching the content a a level that’s not typical of the average viewer perhaps, but I do think this channel attracts more serious, successful players than most. I don’t think my audience is the same as those of most poker RU-vidrs.

Im a keenish poker player and i think the level of this site is well above the difficulty / depth of most of what I watch. 😂