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Message: [QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5208095, member: 390655"] [b]Playing perfectly[/b] Hi Collin! I take your question to me we are playing "perfectly" (GTO) under the assumption that others will be doing likewise, at least in terms of calling ranges. Very interesting question. I suspect we'd do ok (be small winners) but not as good as the regs who adjust for likely opponent mistakes/divergences. I saw a very graphic illustration of this in a satellite I played online tonight. The situation was there were 2 big stacks who should have been locked up, 2 medium stacks (of which I was one), and 3 small stacks . So 7 left, 5 tickets, and it should usually be a case of which of the three short stacks gets the last seat. The fun started when one of the big stacks (second in chips) decided to open shove KTo utg. I'm pretty sure if I plugged it into a solver it would say the shove is fine, assuming everyone behind knows what they're supposed to call with (the other big stack nothing, the two medium stacks nothing or almost nothing, and the three small stacks relatively tight too). As it happened, the chipleader called with aces to eliminate the other guy. I remember thinking in game that while the shove might be profitable if everyone is playing perfectly, I'd never do it in practise. The upside is almost nothing compared to the downside of getting called and losing. Hilariously, the guy with Aces who now had a humongous chip lead almost managed to bubble from this position because he seemed to have lost access to the Fold button (he didn't bubble, but had to get lucky KJ v AJ not to). If all that was needed to beat satellites comfortably was access to a solver Barry and I wouldn't have needed to write the book, but the sections where we talk about what we call "adjusting for imperfection" are probably the most important in terms of impact to the bottom line. Thanks for the very interesting question! [/QUOTE]

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