Why do GTO players act like robots?
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Rolled High, Bro
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11mo agoAutism, mostly...
PugDolk
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9mo agoThere are a lot of people with Asperger's who defaulted into poker as a career because you don't have to pass a phone screener, hiring manager interview, panel interview, and vibe check interview to start playing poker and make money.
People who chose poker as a career and understand it as a soft hustle, and play poker because it's a natural fit for their soft hustle skills, resent the Asperger's pro because they screw up the hustle and don't even realize that they're doing that.
A lot of the second type could easily fit into, or are/have been in, roles like corporate salesman, jewelry salesman, lawyer, personal banker, etc.
Imagine you were a seller at a big software company and someone from JP Morgan called in and an engineer took the call, stared at them blankly for 10 minutes and then was like "uhhh..... give me money." You'd resent the engineer, for the same reasons the soft hustler resents the Asperger's pro. The soft hustler recognizes poker as a vehicle where they can play the game for a decade with the same people and slowly win large amounts of money over time. The Asperger's pro sees every interaction as completely transactional, wants to get the most amount of money they can out of the hand they're currently playing, them prides themselves when the guy they stack never comes back to the casino....
