Intro to Node-Locking | GTOx Fundamentals

[@MK-13337]

You can also nodelock against regs and common mistakes they make. For example, heads up on flops in my format (spin&go), people tend to under xr their backdoor equity hands, and thend also go under xr some of their made hands. Even though their xr might still be balanced(ish), they will have a lower than optimal xr frequency, making cbets more profitable with a lot of different hands. Draws and mediocre made hands don't like being raised, so if villain has a lower xr freq than optimal, you can increase your cbets. Even if villain would be perfectly balanced you can still exploit mistakes in frequencies, and those are easier to spot and input as nodelocks. I personally don't nodelock vs fish that much, their ranges and actions are too unpredictable to get very accurate results, and I don't need gto like solutions to exploit clearly bad play. Edit: what I'm saying, is that "villain overbluffs -> we overcall" doesn't need a nodelock to figure out. But "villain xr 4% instead of optimal 15% -> we cbet more AND with these classes of hands"

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Nice tips! I have been thinking about doing some type of mass data analysis for specific player pools so users can form general exploits based on population tendencies.

[@jimmymcgill5572]

@@FindingEquilibrium This would be amazing

[@Mr__Delivery]

In live games where folks are under-studied, learning to develop and test hypotheses related to imbalances is often as important to success as knowing the baseline. I actually find that re-calculated equilibria aren't given their proper due in most discussions of poker theory. Very few studied players I know are actually exploiting weak players in all the ways available, and very few players who identify as "exploitative" rather than "GTO" actually understand how certain imbalances affect the strategies available to them.

[@sergeya3078]

The thing that keeps me awake at night is that to perfectly replicate V's strategy we should lock nodes on all turns and rivers and this insurmountable amount of work.

[@FeersYouTube]

Did you just make a whole video to justify your hero-call?

[@MaydayAggro]

HA!

[@dtizzl15]

any update on when GTOcheck will have full ring capabilities?

[@johanschultz-pedersen5716]

Great video. You can lock the entire gametree for all runouts by creating a subtree at the specific street where you want to do the nodelocking (at least in pio)

[@StreetSoulLover]

I always try to use simple GTO theories as a baseline then try and take exploitative strategies to maximise profits vs individual player deficiencies

[@masspsycology2731]

Thats the gto gameplan

[@fbomb3930]

Do some solvers have node-blocked presets, like a nit lag or omc preset?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Not that I am aware of, but it is something I have been thinking about. For example, programming the game tree so that one of the players will fold all hands below second pair that aren't also a draw, or forcing a player to bluff 100% of front-door draws etc. This would likely be difficult to implement, but it would be interesting to see what the GTO counterstrat would look like.

[@fedea82]

@@FindingEquilibrium YES to this. There are so many soft games where most players fit one profile...this "profile nodelock" would be their killer

[@jakepokervegas]

Uhmm... this is pretty advanced, I should see this one a couple more times.

[@deristokes]

Hi I love the videos btw so much information on them but I’m still trying to understand it all lol. How long did it take you to learn all of this you must be amazing at poker

[@fedea82]

So based on the info given in this video, proportional exploitation is the max EV strat, not "max exploit". Correct?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

What do you mean by proportional exploit and max exploit?

[@fedea82]

@@FindingEquilibrium max exploit would be something like "since he overbluffs a bit I'll always bluffcatch", while proportional exploit would be "since he overbluffs a bit I'll overcall a bit"

[@FindingEquilibrium]

@@fedea82 Well, the solver will always find the max EV strategy by max exploiting based on the parameters of the game. But in practice, because of the caveats I mentioned in the video, the "safer" strategy IMO is to stay closer to the baseline and to adjust by shifting all the hands you think are on the borderline to pure strategies. It's hard to give a general rule because each opponent/pool is unique.

[@qingyang5296]

Loved the cold war meme :) Have you ever encountered any copyright issues using Pokergo footage? Not sure how hard they go after content creators. How about footage from other sources? (triton etc)

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Thanks. Yes, Pokergo at one point took down around 1/3 of my videos. Arguably using even full footage is fair use, so using snapshots with commentary on top is almost certainly fair use.

[@qingyang5296]

@@FindingEquilibrium Hah that's smart, using screenshots. How did you get the 1/3 of videos back up? I've always failed to understand why any broadcaster would do this. If anything you are helping to promote them.

[@FindingEquilibrium]

@@qingyang5296 I didn't get them back - all that hard work went straight down the drain, including what I still think is the best video I have ever made. But you are right, showing footage of a single hand out of hundreds played does not take anything away from them. I tried to explain this and even offered to promote pokergo for free but they were rigidly stuck on "protecting their copyright" and wanted me to pay thousands of dollars for videos that I made $0 off of.

[@qingyang5296]

@@FindingEquilibrium Damn, sorry to hear that. As someone who also makes videos I can understand the pain. One last question-any problems with other broadcasters? Triton? Pokerstars tv? Thanks for the replies and gl in future!

[@FindingEquilibrium]

@@qingyang5296 The only others that had an issue was Live at the Bike.

[@Gos1234567]

Was your check back on that flop solver approved😉I mean what % of the time should we check there?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

Everything was solver approved until the river - both his bet and my call were not.

[@jimmymcgill5572]

@@FindingEquilibrium Why do you think checking top pair on that board is +ev?

[@yuantian8670]

Can you do a real deep stack hand analysis (over 300 bbs) to compare the solving time of gtox cloud and simple postflop with an average cpu and ram?

[@FindingEquilibrium]

GTOx has a 250bb limit currently and I think it would be difficult to solve a 300bb hand with an "average cpu and ram" with the same bet sizings as GTOx. Also, the solving time with GTOx depends on how many users are sending hands to be calculated at the same time. Not taking into account waiting queue, GTOx should be significantly faster than most average computers but it's hard to give an accurate estimate of the time.

[@aspirationalcapitalmanagement]

Exploit with solvers 😂😂 Imagine if you go back 10 years ago how hard you would crush at any sakes!

[@BreakoutShot]

Is anyone actually over bluffing though? I feel this person doesn’t exist.

[@FindingEquilibrium]

There are plenty of people that overbluff, but I don't play enough in this pool to know whether it is prevelant or not in this spot.