The comments here are so heavily jargon laden that I have no idea what I was reading.. gto, plo, nlo, then with numbers behind them, etc.. Is there a glossary to understand those terms?
Highly recommend Doyle's "Poker Wisdom of a Champion" for a throwback look at the wild days of poker in the 60's.<p>The story of the tennis match prop bet alone was worth it. Let the dog die!
For those of you who would like to learn the basics of poker, Johns Hopkins offers an online course: <a href="https://hopkinspokercourse.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hopkinspokercourse.com/</a><p>MIT OCW also has a course on poker theory: <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytics-january-iap-2015/" rel="nofollow">https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytic...</a>
It’s funny that the two examples used to illustrate his play (the 10 2) stories are examples of him making extremely bad reads on his opponent and bad beating them. I can only assume that’s him massaging the narrative a bit to help him win in the future, cause it isn’t great poker playing.
lots of misinformation here about the current state of play with respect to GTO. If you're interested in understanding the principles of GTO and how amateurs currently leverage it check out the Finding Equilibrium youtube channel. Specifically, there's a series where this guy teaches his girlfriend to play poker by building heuristics that generally mimic solver advice. It's a cool way to see how solvers are changing the live poker game; from this relatively basic series you can extrapolate how professionals refine their strategies and heuristics to get very close to solver approval in the majority of situations.
<i>Besides the year in which he lost the $6 million, he says, he has never finished in the red.</i><p>that's called tail risk. AIG made money every year except 2008. It still makes money.