Here you go, I did 22 - 99
The sample is from 120k hands I played in the micro-low stakes for a challenge. I called with these hands vs the 3bet a massive 75% of the time lol! 🤮🤮🤮
And yet it’s break even.
Ok so I’m not winning with these hands, but it is a small sample and I had been running like shit. B/E with a 75% call rate still clearly shatters the 20x theory though...
If you want to learn Poker you gotta understand something...
The human mind desperately attempts to grasp onto strategies that we teach it are correct. This is mankind’s ONLY mistake. When we find ourselves in situations, or are presented with evidence, that that challenges this trust it results in us experiencing cognitive dissonance. Our minds reject the evidence, we get angry. Plato spoke of this in his “allegory of the cave”. Buddha spoke about it when he spoke of grasping onto ideals. This CogD is what people in history named demonic. It’s only this that is stopping you from becoming a godlike strategist.
Some minds are more open to change than others. You may only feel a little resistance when accepting the clear evidence presented in this post that proves the 20x rule is complete nonsense. Other will be less open to changing their view. The reason they are less open isn’t because they are generally closed minded, it’s not just one of those things, instead, there is a specific thing that closes the mind:
The more trust a player holds onto for plays in a specific game, the more difficult it will be for them to surpass any of that trust for that game. This is consistent throughout all games. I can prove it happens to poker players, but all poker experts trust in many strategies and so their demons work hard to silence me.
The Poker world is grasping onto a very, very dark strategy called GTO. Most experienced players will use all the power in their means to convince you to use GTO and not exploitation. These people are not usually consciously aware of what they are doing. Their inner demons are tricking them into promoting the GTO style.
Anytime you read any book, or any article from anyone in that says “it’s correct to... 3bet 12% of the time... call 35% of cbets... play 21vpip...” If anyone ever gives you any strategy that they claim to be correct, right or optimal, you can be confident that the only reason they are promoting the strategy as such is because they are suffering from cognitive dissonance.
The minds of experienced players are naturally corrupted, so treat their lessons tentatively because the wrong knowledge will hinder your strategic ability.
FWIW... In life, I’m starting to become pretty sure that GTO is the “middle way” described by Buddha as the perfect strategy. In Poker we are using our minds to exploit others and so GTO is dark relative to our goals. In life, it’s only the deceptive who try to exploit. Without deception the rules all seem to flip around making GTO great.
And so I don’t think GTO is dark after all. It’s just another trick of the Devil. The real problem is only the trust we place in strategies.
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