re: WSOP 2019

Another raise to 65000. Geez. Someone do it just a lil different

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GTO maximizes value assuming the opponent is also playing GTO.

As the opponent deviates from GTO playing to exploit the opponents weakness becomes more profitable. The obvious risk is that you open yourself up to be exploited by other players by changing gears to exploit the weaker players at the table

The top level players on the high roller circuit are not as good as some more veteran players at making these adjustments in tournaments like the WSOP ME

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You're actually making the argument that the players who are the most succesful at playing against the best players are bad at adjustments? We will have to agree to disagree.

GTO is most effective (and absolutely necessary) when playing mid and high stakes cash games and mtts. Do some people misapply concepts? Yes. That doesn't translate to what you are saying, not even close.

Someone who learns GTO concepts can always choose not to use them and go more Exploit heavy. Other way around not so much.

And for the record, I dont base much on live High stakes MTT results for a myriad of reasons. Small player pool, equity swaps, etc.... Im actually not a fan of a player having a piece of 6 guys in a 45 player tourny.

YOud really rather have Alex Foxen or Jake Schindler on your left than Matusow? Come on bro.

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GTO maximizes value assuming the opponent is also playing GTO.

As the opponent deviates from GTO playing to exploit the opponents weakness becomes more profitable. The obvious risk is that you open yourself up to be exploited by other players by changing gears to exploit the weaker players at the table

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wut? GTO is unexploitable (if you can actually play GTO which no human can, esp live). GTO is defensive poker

the problem is you leave a lot of potential EV on the table by removing exploitation from your game

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GTO is unexploitable (if you can actually play GTO which no human can, esp live)

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He is correct on this point: GTO assumes everyone is playing GTO in theory. This is obviously a waste at low stakes cash games and alot of mtts.

There was also a fad a few years back where young guys who didnt really grasp the concepts were going crazy with 3-betting and with c-betting. I absolutely did this. Its easy to just think of those type players when imagining the younger school of players.

Anyone who is good enough to play stakes and levels that require GTO, succesfully, is good enough to factor in their opponents tendencies.

when i got back in a few years ago it was hard to turn off live poker brain when playing online. why i switched to omaha

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This feels like Hellmuth fanboying 100%.

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tournaments are a terrible way to judge players, generally

there is too much randomness and specific play to the exact situations of tournaments

also i think high stakes cash guys have a better set of results in tournies than the main tourney guys (see: Jason "bad reg" Mercier) do in cash games. i think adjusting to smaller BB stacks is easier than deep stack (and you almost never see deep stack poker in tournies)

He just made himself look silly with the tank muck

He did nothing wrong in the hand. Sitting there holding his cards for a minute afterwards was silly.

It’s a terrible check especially when the ace is bad for Seymour’s range as well. He’s hoping Seymour has A-10 he may check anyway since he checked back top 2 earlier

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Seymour played that hand perfectly. He lost the min.

Huge mistake by Cudos there. How the frick does he check there?

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Looked like he was wanting to check raise

if you're talking about Daniel Holmes he's out, finished 250th