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Message: [QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5309197, member: 390655"] Hi, I agree that in cheaper sats most opponents won't be playing GTO or anything close to it, but I still think it's useful to know what the GTO is. Once you know that, you know in which direction to adjust for opponents who are playing sub optimally, and have an idea of how much you should adjust. For example, let's say you are small blind with a short stack and it folds around to you. If you think the big blind is going to call tighter than he should, then it's obvious you should shove wider than if he's too loose. But how much wider exactly? If you don't know the GTO shoving range you don't know what's you're aiming to be wider then. In the book, we give some example where we say something like "the GTO solution is we should shove 32% of hands and the BB should call 30%, but if he calls 50% we can only profitably shove 12% whereas if he only calls 20% we can shove 60%". In this case knowing the GTO gives us the baseline (32%) from which we adjust up or down. This is an easier way to get to something approximating the best strategy rather than just taking a guess what our shoving % should be in each individual spot. Ultimately though, it doesn't matter how you arrive at the right answer if it's the right answer. If you have an internal table with shoving ranges from every seat for every stack size and situation that's great, but for most of us it's easier to learn a much smaller subset of GTO ranges (available from apps like Snapshove) and then adjust accordingly based on our assumptions. Thanks for your question! [/QUOTE]

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