Artem Kobylynskyi: Thriving in Chaos & The Future of Poker Variants

GTO LAB
06 Jun 2025
Intermediate
This material is for medium-skilled players
Strategy

Professional poker player Artem Kobylynskyi shares insights from winning the Triton 30K Short Deck event. He discusses adapting to live-streamed final tables, exploiting opponents' mistakes in unfamiliar formats, and the strategic differences between short deck and hold'em poker variants.

Kobylynskyi emphasizes discipline and small-ball aggression while waiting for opponents to make costly errors in unfamiliar poker variants.

Tournament Mastery Highlights:

  • Chaos Management - Thriving when opponents lack understanding of optimal short deck strategy and exploiting their fundamental mistakes

  • ICM Adaptation - Adjusting tournament strategy from hold'em knowledge while navigating unfamiliar short deck ICM spots with limited solver data
  • Live Stream Pressure - Managing final table dynamics under bright lights while tracking opponent tendencies through selective showdowns
  • Bet Sizing Evolution - Avoiding oversized bets in multi-way pots that characterized early short deck play, favoring controlled aggression instead
  • Stack Leverage - Using disciplined small-ball approach to accumulate edges rather than risking everything in single high-variance spots
  • Opponent Profiling - Reading aggressive players like Mike Watson and adjusting timing based on live stream delay considerations
  • Format Advantages - Preferring pot-limit pre-flop structure over no-limit to prevent bigger stacks from dominating through pure aggression
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GTO LAB is a poker training brand focused on modern strategy and solver-based learning. It offers clear explanations, practical study tools, and structured content that help players understand GTO concepts and apply them step by step to improve their real game results.

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