Daniel Negreanu

This guy loves rock.

He loves playing rock.

So I'm going to go paper a little more.

So I'm going to take advantage of him.

So I won't be through, but now all of a sudden when I do that, I'm no longer playing optimal because if you knew that I was making that adjustment, now you can exploit me.

So that's where the sort of what we call the leveling war happens, where people veer from, you know, the optimal line of, okay, 33% each for each one.

You can't beat that, but you also can't win with that either.

Yeah, you're going back and forth.

And listen, at the highest levels, like online, that these guys play, they're trying to play pretty close to game theory optimal.

Because it's very difficult to do, first of all.

No human being will ever be able to compute at the level that computers can.

It's just never going to happen.

So...

That's where like the human mind has to come into play and say, all right, well, you know, if I was playing against a robot, I would do X, but I'm not.

I'm playing against you.

So I have to adjust.

See, that's why I love playing exploitatively for the most part, because with GTO, anything that's happened in the past has no bearing on this situation.

It's simply based on what is the optimal play in a vacuum in this spot.

Whereas exploitatively, okay, this guy bluffs way too much in these spots.

So now I can make an adjustment and call more, you know, based on past information.