
There's no doubt that poker is a complex game. So, it's no surprise that many players rely on gut feelings and hunches when making decisions during a hand. In the early days of poker, most top players relied exclusively on their intuition when making decisions.
Getting reads and/or acting based on a hunch was the order of the day, and the best players typically had a lot of heart.
Fast forward to about 2010 and all this started to change:
- Computer programs analyse reams of poker data and formulate decisions based solely on math and probability.
- The top poker players wanted to discover the mathematically best decision in any given situation.
- Enter GTO or game theory optimal decision-making.
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