Originally posted by Primrose6789
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You are not the only one!
Learn GTO to know how to play vs very good opponents who are balanced and understand range vs range very well but focus more on learning what average opponents do at your stake and exploit their leaks for maximizing EV.
Can you tell us more about that?
Sure, I will take extreme example to make it easy to understand.
Say that pre flop opponent folds to your open 100% but you don't exploit it by rather play GTO (game theory optimum). By doing so your EV (expected value) drops and you loose chips/money over time. So while GTO states that in such case you should open such and such % and use such and such sizing and aim to be balanced in such and such way depending on stack sizes, ICM (if there is any) and opponents range, in reality if opponent plays different from what GTO predicts it you will loose EV.
So the conclusion is to always aim to understand what average opponent on your stake does and adjust strategy based on that. Then you want to practice to adjust your strategy vs very specific opponents (how regs play, how fish play, then aggro regs, passive and aggro fish etc) and land on different ways you would play hand differently to maximize EV each time.
Finally, you learn GTO because you expect as you move up in stakes to encounter regs more and more and people who will spend time in the lab (outside of tables) studying these things and working on improving their leaks. If they improve and start to play more balanced, they will exploit your unbalanced strategy. So vs them you need to learn to balance more so that their balance actually is wrong and you end up having more value vs them in such spots and make money.
This of course is difficult and long road to take as you can never be 100% sure what your opponent does and you are playing guessing game. Also, opponent can and sometimes does change and vary play, so while you adjust he/she will readjust and then you burn money again. But overall, people don't think nor work hard enough on this. They end up with 1 or several game plans that they don't tweak nor learn how to improve and adapt and that is why any strong reg opponent can take their game plan analyze it and own them. Example in practice , say your opponent on wet textures always xr(check/raises) TPSK (top pair strong kicker) and all draws. You can by doing GTO and vs exploitative strategy learn that opponent is polarized and by having such xr range he or she allows you to extend and bluff catch wider with your cbetting strategy. If on the other hand opponent includes only nuts hands in xr on wet textures and you start to bet/call his/her raises with wider range, now you burn chips/money. So it is constant game of adjusting and readjusting. Amazing players know this well and work hard to pick up tells and ways how their opponent plays in each spot and if he or she adjusts. To me, note taking is key for me there. It allows me to track and follow what such opponent did vs me in very specific spots and I later(next time we meet) re adjust my strategy to exploit that leak. Beauty of spins is that you never have enough hands with all the players so you need to practice to become fast and catching all these little signals opponents give you and punish their leaks while covering yours. And covering leaks is best to practice with GTO approach because it is balanced way to play poker and it defends you from potential exploits of opponents .
Hope that made sense and helped 
P.S. We can also save in archives this post for GTO vs Exploitable approach and why both are great and useful for reference that new or existing players can use to understand importance of both.
