Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
GTO means we are attempting to finds ways to play almost perfectly. Poker isn't solved so obviously we don't have GTO but by attempting to learn it and seeing how we create really solid almost nash strategies (of which that donkr article I've linked to a few times does @sevenduece) we come across many ways of which don't work that may seem like they work. So we end up coming up with loads of really tight lines, knowing how people might try to exploit us whilst taking these lines and as we've seen why they don't work we have our adjustments already to exploit them, because we know how and why our opponents lines don't work.

When we are looking for all of these ways though our aim isn't to try and play GTO 100% of the time, in reality we'd be doing something wrong to be sat at a table where this would even be remotely needed.

I'm also not saying that hand reading and all those other skills aren't needed. They get developed over time. But trying to make them the main parts of our game when we know that this isn't how we go about "solving" poker just seems like a suboptimal way of going about poker.
And now you're saying almost the exact same as my first post in this thread