GTO

Game Theory Optimal, or GTO for short, stands for a perfectly balanced strategy that makes you unexploitable to other players.

If you can apply the GTO strategy in your games, your opponents can’t do much about it, and the best they can achieve is to break even if they also play the perfect strategy. On the other hand, if they deviate from game theory optimal play, you will be winning against them in the long run.

To put it simply, this approach shows you the perfect solution for any situation in the hand, considering probabilities, bet sizing, and all possible outcomes. While this sounds great, it is quite hard to implement the actual GTO strategy since it involves millions of different scenarios. For example, it may say that you need to bet 65% of the time and check 35% of the time in a specific situation with a particular hand.

That being said, it is the best way to build your fundamentals and learn how a sound strategy should look. While you cannot memorize every situation, you can easily learn how to approach different parts of your game using advanced solvers and other software.

Learning GTO will not only help you make better decisions bet also notice your opponent's mistakes and exploit them.