text stringlengths 3 6.58k |
|---|
Disciplining Big Blind in Limped Pots When the BTN open-limps off a short stack , the postflop play against the BB should resemble that of a single-raised pot (SRP). That is, the BB, having taken no preflop risk, arrives at the flop with a weaker range and so should mostly check. Then the BTN, with the stronger range, ... |
BB bets, they will make no more than they would checking. Some of them will make less because when we nodelock BB to bet 75% of the time with top or middle pair , BB’s EV drops by about 10bb/100 . Nodelock BB to bet top and second pair for half pot with a 75% frequency Nodelocking in this way does not force BB to bet o... |
but their magnitude is much reduced. For example, on 542 r , BB’s equilibrium strategy entails a lot of betting, with a range that is heavy on top and middle pair: BB’s unlocked strategy on 542 r Even so, BTN plays cautiously against a check, betting less than half the time. When they do bet, it is with a polar range f... |
so in unbalanced ways, favoring “obvious” betting candidates such as vulnerable pairs. You can exploit these bets either by respecting their strength and folding your own weaker hands and/or by putting them to the test with shoves. More importantly, you can exploit their overly weak checks with frequent, small bets jus... |
up! Exploiting SB’s Preflop Mistakes Heads up (HU) tournament play presents unique challenges to the average player. Many tournament players,… C-Betting As the OOP Preflop Raiser Position is an extremely valuable advantage in poker. Most players would describe the comfort zone… Overchoice: Making Sense of Multiple Sizi... |
the betting lead away from the previous street’s aggressor–on the flop is rarely… How Stack Sizes Change Your Range In this series, we have looked at factors that can influence ranges in otherwise identical… How to Leverage GTO Wizard’s EV Comparison Tool With the advent of solvers, some troubling new turns of phrase h... |
Money I am fortunate enough to have worked for many years with the mental game coach… Overbetting The Flop in Cash Games Although most commonly analyzed on turns and rivers, flop overbetting can be a devastating weapon… Using New Skills at the Poker Table How many times has it happened to you that you make a mistake on... |
the game that… Flop Heuristics for Defending the Blinds in MTTs The field of Game Theoretically Optimal poker is extensive, and thus, to simplify our strategy,… Multiway strategy in Progressive Knockout Tournaments Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments are much more complex than traditional MTTs. The fact that players... |
how much of the pot a hand will win, on… Variance and Bankroll Management Variance and Bankroll Management. Vital Soft Skills for Every Poker Player. How to Become a GTO Wizard Welcome to the wonderful world of game theory optimal poker! This article will serve as… The Three Laws of Indifference Indifference in poker i... |
Poker subsets and abstractions No Limit Hold’Em is an extraordinarily complex game: a truly accurate representation of the game consists of more nodes than there are atoms in the universe As a result, players worldwide have sought to create simpler game models to minimize the computational requirements of solving poker... |
flops. However, we’ve added subsets by popular demand. We offer four subsets: 25, 49, 85, and 184 flops. There are two main ways to utilize subsets: ☝ Use subsets to make training against the solution easier In the GTO Wizard Trainer, we offer the option to apply board filters (Settings>Board). Users may select a subse... |
41%, 41.1% or any other bet size greater than 1BB. Betting Caps Players are limited to a maximum number of bets or raises per street to further simplify betting trees. For example, GTO Wizard simulations use a cap of 5 bets or raises, with the last one being converted to an all-in. This is demonstrated in this SB vs BB... |
presolved solutions do not offer much in the way of explicit guidance… Top 5 Mistakes in Spin & Gos As a Spin and Go poker coach, I regularly encounter common mistakes that players make,… An Introduction to Spin & Gos I was playing Tournaments for the first decade of my career. But after my first… Relationships and Pok... |
preflop raiser enjoys a significant range advantage over a BB caller, enabling them to… C-Betting Against ICM Preflop Ranges You raise from early position (EP) in a multi-table tournament and the BB calls. Both… The Art of Bluff Catching Bluff catching—calling a bet with a modest hand which you expect to win only if… E... |
field size,… C-Betting IP in 3-Bet Pots When you three-bet before the flop and the original raiser calls from out of position,… C-Betting OOP in 3-Bet Pots Continuation betting from out of position can be a dicey proposition in single-raised pots. Cold… Dynamic Sizing: A GTO Breakthrough Dynamic Sizing is a revolutiona... |
on its own, but understanding… Probe Betting As far as rules of thumb go in poker, “check to the raiser” is a… ICM and Blind Battles: The Big Blind This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs… ICM and Blind Battles: The Small Blind ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means tha... |
the art of turn analysis in poker. Understand how the turn card changes the… Principles of Turn Strategy Learn the principles of turn strategy in poker and discover what makes the turn unique.… Poker Strategies: Tournaments vs. Cash Games Tournament poker is not as different from cash game poker as people sometimes ass... |
Visualizing implied odds Implied odds are the value you expect to gain over and above your raw equity.… ICM Basics As a tournament player, you may have heard about the concept of “ICM”, but what… What is Equity in Poker? The term “Equity” is ubiquitous throughout poker theory. Equity refers to your chances of winning… ... |
Mastering Three-Bet Pots In Position in MTTs Playing in position against a three-bettor is a lesson in playing to your advantages. As the defending player, you will not have the equity advantage or the nuts advantage. What you will have is the position al advantage. This incentivizes you to play even more passively tha... |
many hands that would otherwise play well as calls preferring to deny equity to the BB. This is especially true as ICM pressure increases. For the BB , calling is very appealing. They are getting amazing odds, thanks to their big blind and the ante, and they do not have to worry about anyone calling or raising behind t... |
their equity when ahead rather than call to potentially win even more after the flop. With shallower stacks, these big offsuit hands go up in value, while the smaller suited cards go down. If we shrink the stacks from 50bb to 30bb , CO’s folding frequency doesn’t change much, but the composition of the continuing range... |
On this board, CO starts betting geometrically with a polarized range . A strong top pair or better is the threshold for value, while their bluffs come not only from flush draws (many of those prefer to check back so as not to open themselves up to a raise) but from whiffed floats Floats To call a bet postflop with a w... |
KK in your calling range as well), to give your opponents tough decisions on the river. Did the Ace just give you top pair, or did it crush the hopes of your 55 ? Should they bluff a blank river to get you off your AQ ? If they do, they risk running into your slowplays or the small pairs, which are a bit stronger now t... |
field remaining. Once you’ve got the hang of that, you can tweak the parameters to practice other stages of the tournament, but you’ll likely get more out of focusing on one stage at a time rather than training on a set of drills that randomly draws from many different ICM models. GTO Wizard the #1 App for Poker player... |
play presents unique challenges to the average player. Many tournament players,… C-Betting As the OOP Preflop Raiser Position is an extremely valuable advantage in poker. Most players would describe the comfort zone… Overchoice: Making Sense of Multiple Sizings Solver solutions with multiple bet sizes often involve a l... |
the flop is rarely… How Stack Sizes Change Your Range In this series, we have looked at factors that can influence ranges in otherwise identical… How to Leverage GTO Wizard’s EV Comparison Tool With the advent of solvers, some troubling new turns of phrase have entered the poker… Should You Ever Cold Call a 3-Bet? When... |
many years with the mental game coach… Overbetting The Flop in Cash Games Although most commonly analyzed on turns and rivers, flop overbetting can be a devastating weapon… Using New Skills at the Poker Table How many times has it happened to you that you make a mistake only to… Flatting Ace-X Hands Shortstacked Playin... |
in MTTs The field of Game Theoretically Optimal poker is extensive, and thus, to simplify our strategy,… Multiway strategy in Progressive Knockout Tournaments Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments are much more complex than traditional MTTs. The fact that players… How To Calculate Raises In Poker One of the most frequ... |
on… Variance and Bankroll Management Variance and Bankroll Management. Vital Soft Skills for Every Poker Player. How to Become a GTO Wizard Welcome to the wonderful world of game theory optimal poker! This article will serve as… The Three Laws of Indifference Indifference in poker is one of the most misunderstood conce... |
ICM Basics As a tournament player, you may have heard about the concept of “ICM”, but what does this actually mean? The Independent Chip Model (ICM) is a mathematical formula that converts your tournament stack into a monetary value. This formula was first applied to poker by Mason Malmuth in 1987. The model uses stack... |
Assuming Bill wins: (20% chance) Now we multiply the 2nd place equity by the probability of each scenario: Total 2nd place equity: Now we can simply add the first and 2nd place equity together to figure out the total equity: As you can imagine, this process gets exponentially more complex as we add more players and pay... |
open much wider, since Bill will always have to overfold relative to his pot odds. That’s the advantage of the big stack. Risk premium is a variable that’s different for every stack vs every other stack at the table. In general, we can derive the following heuristic: Your risk premium is higher against stacks that cove... |
aspects of tournament play: The value of survival. Tournaments are not about maximizing BB/100, they are about maximizing your tournament equity. As you explore these concepts, you’ll run into spots where you need to play far tighter than your instincts might otherwise tell you, and other spots where you should play fa... |
Sizings Solver solutions with multiple bet sizes often involve a lot of mixing between those sizes,… River Refinements: When Your Opponent Won’t Check-Raise One of the biggest strategic differences between playing in versus out of position involves betting… Turn Barreling in 3-Bet Pots There are two articles on the GTO... |
solvers, some troubling new turns of phrase have entered the poker… Should You Ever Cold Call a 3-Bet? When there’s been a raise and re-raise before the action is on you, you will… When ICM Breaks Down If you have read my previous GTO Wizard articles and my books, you’ll know I… When Is It Correct To Fold AA Preflop? O... |
times has it happened to you that you make a mistake only to… Flatting Ace-X Hands Shortstacked Playing out of position is tricky, but it’s an essential part of tournament play. With… Playing Limped Pots as the BB in MTTs Success as the BB in limped pots begins before the flop. The BB’s equilibrium strategy… The Absurd... |
players… How To Calculate Raises In Poker One of the most frequently asked questions in poker is how to calculate the size… Principles of River Play The river offers the least complicated strategy of any betting street. With no further cards… Exploitative Dynamics GTO solutions are designed to be unexploitable, perform... |
The Three Laws of Indifference Indifference in poker is one of the most misunderstood concepts. The word “indifference” means that… Poker subsets and abstractions An “abstraction” is a way to simplify the game of poker. This game is so… Mathematical Misconceptions in Poker Pot Odds and MDF are foundational mathematical... |
Flop Heuristics: OOP C-Betting in MTTs illustration Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and dramatically more difficult–than playing against a caller from the blinds . You should not expect to enjoy the sort of range advantage you would against a caller from the blinds. Depending on you... |
strategy with 100bb stacks: they check more often, and when they do bet, they use a smaller size more consistently (note that the bet sizes GTO Wizard considers at this stack depth are slightly different than those it uses with shallower stacks). This may seem counterintuitive, as UTG’s nutty hands would presumably ben... |
Depending on the board texture, this may mean draws to low straight or flushes or two big, unpaired cards. You want to avoid growing a pot while drawing to a hand you will have to play conservatively should you make it. Such hands under-realize their equity and thus benefit less from growing the pot. Airballs . These a... |
their equity on AJ6 r and enjoyed a significant equity advantage. Growing the pot on the flop is dangerous for UTG , because no matter how good their hand is now, the turn and river could tank its value and leave them in a tough spot out of position. Thus, UTG checks 65% of their range, including many of their weakest ... |
An Introduction to Spin & Gos I was playing Tournaments for the first decade of my career. But after my first… Relationships and Poker In my more than 15 years of poker coaching, I’ve helped hundreds of clients improve… Do Multiple Sizes Matter? Should I work out the other tools or just stick to the crowbar? Solver res... |
The Art of Bluff Catching Bluff catching—calling a bet with a modest hand which you expect to win only if… Exploiting Excessive C-Betting by IP On some flops, it is simply not possible for the preflop raiser to continuation bet… Is Limping Pimping? In a past Discord post, one of our members noted that an upside of impl... |
be a dicey proposition in single-raised pots. Cold… Dynamic Sizing: A GTO Breakthrough Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy with the… Dynamic Sizing Benchmarks Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy w... |
to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs… ICM and Blind Battles: The Small Blind ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means that at stages of the tournament where risk… The Initial Bettor’s Advantage The mathematics of poker holds a little-known secret: the first bettor enjoys better bluffing odds… M... |
Strategies: Tournaments vs. Cash Games Tournament poker is not as different from cash game poker as people sometimes assume. Most… How Solvers Work A Game Theory Optimal solver is an algorithm that calculates the best possible poker strategy.… The Most Powerful Play in Poker The central strategic implication of stack d... |
what… What is Equity in Poker? The term “Equity” is ubiquitous throughout poker theory. Equity refers to your chances of winning… Range Morphology “Morphology” is the study of form or structure. You’ve probably heard terms thrown around such… What is Expected Value in Poker? Expected value (EV) is the most fundamental ... |
River Refinements: When Your Opponent Won’t Check-Raise One of the biggest strategic differences between playing in versus out of position involves betting frequency and sizing on the river . Solver strategies for the OOP player, when they involve betting at all, often bet tiny —as small as 10% of the pot—with a wide r... |
more important consideration for their opponent. Many players can’t bring themselves to check strong hands on the river. Yet, when first to act in this scenario, many players can’t bring themselves to check strong hands. One of my coaching clients named this tendency: “ value panic ”—the fear of winning only a small po... |
Raise Prohibited Take a look back at BTN’s strategy when checked to. How do you expect it to change in a simulation where BB is not allowed to check-raise the river ? Will BTN’s overall betting frequency increase or decrease? Which bet sizes do you expect them to use more and less often? Answer these questions for your... |
checking range. When BB is not allowed to raise , BTN makes substantial use of the half-pot size, so much so that they use it more than the shove: This gains them an extra 0.5bb in EV, about 2% of what is already a fairly large pot. The breakdown of which hands belong in which range is as intuitive as it gets. BTN shov... |
Study any spot imaginable Practice by playing vs. GTO Analyze your hands with 1-click START CRUSHING NOW JOIN DISCORD Author Andrew Brokos Andrew Brokos has been a professional poker player, coach, and author for over 15 years. He co-hosts the Thinking Poker Podcast and is the author of the Play Optimal Poker books, am... |
Suppose Paul the Protector is in a 200bb cash game and opens A♠A♣ in the… The Importance of Board Coverage The first public version of the GTO Wizard announced AI upgrade already has some useful… How To Adjust When Villain Has No Bluffs “They always have it!” is a common, semi-joking expression in poker to describe the... |
ICM is that it is boring and robotic. In my… OOP C-betting vs Loose Cold-callers In a previous GTO Wizard article, I asserted that “Playing against an in-position cold-caller is… Short-Stacked Play in MTTs Playing a short stack well is an essential tournament skill. It is extremely rare to… When To Ladder in Tournament... |
in poker is one where the community cards make up the best… Playing Limped Pots as the SB in MTTs MTT confrontations between the small blind and big blind force no-limit players into uncomfortable situations,… The Art of Learning Poker In his book The Art of Learning, chess and Push Hands champion Josh Waitzkin describ... |
understand how the Independent Chip Model (ICM) in poker impacts their strategy preflop,… 10 Tips for Multiway Pots in Poker While lots of work has been placed into research and explanation of heads-up pot strategy,… What is the Bubble Factor in poker tournaments? The Independent Chip Model (ICM) shows us the real mone... |
to calculate GTO strategies on the fly. By… The Value of Fold Equity – Experiment The term “fold equity” is ambiguous in the poker community. Firstly, it’s an EV equation,… MDF & Alpha MDF & Alpha. Minimum Defence Frequency and Alpha are metrics on poker that determine how… What are Pot Odds in poker? Pot odds are a fu... |
Preflop Button Mastery in PKOs Playing from the Button presents many unique opportunities in any tournament format, especially in PKOs. Apart from the benefit of always having position postflop, in Progressive Knockout Tournaments , we potentially have the opportunity to play our widest range for bounties against the B... |
equal stacks to covered as we’re playing fewer hands to begin with. The Button now plays significantly more hands when covering both the Blinds , with their range expanding as their chip lead increases. The Button still plays significantly more hands even when only covering the Big Blind and not the Small Blind, as opp... |
due to the impact of stack sizes in a PKO: In the early to middle stages of a tournament, being covered by your opponents has a significantly greater impact on ranges than covering your opponents. Chip advantages have more leverage in high RP spots, particularly when the Button has a significant chip lead. The Button o... |
precision. Cash games, where stacks typically run into the hundreds of… Heads up! Exploiting SB’s Preflop Mistakes Heads up (HU) tournament play presents unique challenges to the average player. Many tournament players,… C-Betting As the OOP Preflop Raiser Position is an extremely valuable advantage in poker. Most play... |
that.… How and Why You Should Use Turn Donk Bets Donk betting–taking the betting lead away from the previous street’s aggressor–on the flop is rarely… How Stack Sizes Change Your Range In this series, we have looked at factors that can influence ranges in otherwise identical… How to Leverage GTO Wizard’s EV Comparison ... |
after another player has also… Understanding Which Mistakes Cost You the Most Money I am fortunate enough to have worked for many years with the mental game coach… Overbetting The Flop in Cash Games Although most commonly analyzed on turns and rivers, flop overbetting can be a devastating weapon… Using New Skills at th... |
In the world of poker, the flop is a crucial stage of the game that… Flop Heuristics for Defending the Blinds in MTTs The field of Game Theoretically Optimal poker is extensive, and thus, to simplify our strategy,… Multiway strategy in Progressive Knockout Tournaments Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments are much mor... |
deep the effective stack is… Equity Realization In poker jargon, equity expresses how much of the pot a hand will win, on… Variance and Bankroll Management Variance and Bankroll Management. Vital Soft Skills for Every Poker Player. How to Become a GTO Wizard Welcome to the wonderful world of game theory optimal poker! ... |
End of preview. Expand in Data Studio
No dataset card yet
- Downloads last month
- 5