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Betting. It stands 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 pl... |
In Poker Master 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 peop... |
affects your strategy. 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 yo... |
The Importance of Board Coverage The first public version of the GTO Wizard announced AI upgrade already has some useful features to explore. In particular, I think the first iteration of this product can show us the importance of board coverage in poker. All the postflop ranges you have seen on GTO Wizard so far are d... |
Backdoor A draw, on the flop, which requires specific cards to come, on both the turn and river to complete. For example, a backdoor flush draw (BDFD) would be three of the same suit on the flop. flush draw, and A6 s and A5 s for a pair and backdoor flush draw. On this board , UTG has range advantage Range advantage A ... |
the first example to 51.3% here. In the first example, UTG made 3.6bb in EV on average whereas in this new example, they make 2.7bb. The BB made 2.5bb on average in the first example, they make 3.3bb now. The BB is at an equity and positional disadvantage, but now they make more money on average because UTG does not co... |
range, but armed with that knowledge they played it as well as they could. In reality, a player who capped their range in such a needless manner is not going to play perfectly after the flop. They likely would be getting themselves in trouble on low boards, most likely by c-betting too much, and would be giving away ev... |
take advantage of a (future or prior) mistake in your opponent’s strategy. them by attacking on boards they miss too often . They should respond by playing passively, even with their strong hands, to extract value from your bluffs and thin value. In reality, however, players who do not understand board coverage are lik... |
postflop play against the BB should… I’d Rather Be Drawing Which is the better hand on a K♥8♦5♦ flop: K♠T♣ or 7♥6♥? OK, I’ll admit… The Curious Case of Open-Limping Buttons Before the advent of solvers, open-limping was considered the province of passive, gambley recreational players… Cleaning Out Sticky IP Callers A “... |
of the most epic final table battles I’ve ever witnessed! Our… Mastering Thin Value Bets in Checked-Down Pots Valuing your hand appropriately—determining whether it’s strong enough to value bet or so weak you… Maximizing Value on Monotone Flops Monotone flops tend to provoke great anxiety among poker players. It’s easy... |
from Quebec, developed… GTO Wizard AI Explained We are excited to introduce GTO Wizard AI, formerly known as Ruse, the world’s best… GTO Wizard AI Benchmarks GTO Wizard has combined the power of artificial intelligence with traditional solving methods to bring… Table Management in PKOs Perhaps the most important strate... |
Model (ICM) is not from studying bubble… How does ICM impact PKO strategy? If you have read The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments you already know why we… Understanding Blockers in Poker Often when looking through a solver’s meticulously crafted grid of deception, one of the following… Flop Heuristics: IP Cold... |
hand is an investment… What is Valor in poker? Can a poker hand be courageous? How does your ability to value bet future streets… Pot Geometry “Pot Geometry” refers to betting an equal fraction of the pot on each street, such… A Beginner’s Guide to Poker Combinatorics Combinatorics is a fancy term for evaluating the nu... |
What is Equity in Poker? The term “Equity” is ubiquitous throughout poker theory. Equity refers to your chances of winning a hand, assuming the pot gets checked down. In simple terms, equity refers to your “piece of the pie”. In this article, we’ll discuss: Types of equity comparisons The Rule of 4 & 2 Introduction to ... |
it down . It assumes a 50% hand will win its fair share of half the pot. But that’s not how poker works. One player may have an advantage that allows them to “over-realize” their equity, meaning they’ll win more than their fair share. The converse is also true ; factors such as range or positional disadvantage may work... |
everything in between. Viewing your equity as a distribution allows you to gain insight into strategic trends. Let’s take a look at some of the most common metrics we’ll use to break down our equity, using the BB vs BTN J ♠ 8 ♥ 5 ♥ example. Equity buckets Equity buckets are a method of categorizing how many weak and st... |
Range advantage A range advantage is a general term indicating an advantage in your overall equity distribution. A range advantage can be specific to certain parts of your range. For example, a nut advantage is a range advantage over the top of the equity distribution. For example, on this Q ♥ J ♥ 8 ♣ A ♥ board , BTN h... |
When the BTN open-limps off a short stack, the postflop play against the BB should… I’d Rather Be Drawing Which is the better hand on a K♥8♦5♦ flop: K♠T♣ or 7♥6♥? OK, I’ll admit… The Curious Case of Open-Limping Buttons Before the advent of solvers, open-limping was considered the province of passive, gambley recreatio... |
Final Table in Triton History Today, we’ll examine one of the most epic final table battles I’ve ever witnessed! Our… Mastering Thin Value Bets in Checked-Down Pots Valuing your hand appropriately—determining whether it’s strong enough to value bet or so weak you… Maximizing Value on Monotone Flops Monotone flops tend ... |
Beardsell and Marc-Antoine Provost, a team of Canadian programmers from Quebec, developed… GTO Wizard AI Explained We are excited to introduce GTO Wizard AI, formerly known as Ruse, the world’s best… GTO Wizard AI Benchmarks GTO Wizard has combined the power of artificial intelligence with traditional solving methods t... |
Deals Most people’s first introduction to the Independent Chip Model (ICM) is not from studying bubble… How does ICM impact PKO strategy? If you have read The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments you already know why we… Understanding Blockers in Poker Often when looking through a solver’s meticulously crafted gr... |
a game of small edges and big swings. Every hand is an investment… What is Valor in poker? Can a poker hand be courageous? How does your ability to value bet future streets… Pot Geometry “Pot Geometry” refers to betting an equal fraction of the pot on each street, such… A Beginner’s Guide to Poker Combinatorics Combina... |
Table Management in PKOs Perhaps the most important strategic consideration in Progressive Knockout Tournaments (PKOs) is making sure you cover your opponents . You cannot win a bounty if you don’t cover your opponent, which means sometimes you have to take big risks to put yourself in that position, and occasionally p... |
happens after you call and win? The bubble is over, everybody loosens up, and your chip lead is not as impactful. There is a strong case for folding the Pocket Aces here and prolonging the bubble. The micro-stacked Small Blind isn’t going to post their big blind for almost an orbit, and there is a very good chance you ... |
average stack is 60BBs, and we are the BTN with 44BBs. In this first example , this is the table set-up: As you can see, the BTN is covered by both blinds when folded to them. This is the BTN’s opening range and the EV of every hand in the range: Now let’s look at this very similar spot , here is the table set-up: As m... |
These models do not take into account the future game . In the future, we want to win the bounties of the player who cover us right now, which requires having to think a few moves ahead. The HJ is in the middle of the pack with 42BBs, covering UTG1, UTG, and the BB. In a regular MTT, the middle-of-the-pack players have... |
leader. It’s going to be hard to win bounties at this table if the SB is aggressive and isolates when a short-stacked player goes all-in. Therefore it might be a good idea for the BTN to take a risk at this table to pull ahead of the SB in chips. All of this advice is subjective. It really depends on how the players ar... |
lot of players, it is worth taking a few risks. If losing to another big stack would mean you no longer cover other players, it is worth passing up close spots against them. You don’t need to cover everyone. If you already cover the biggest bounties, it might be better to prioritize maintaining that position. However, ... |
one who calls your preflop raises too often and… Defending Against Tiny 3-Bets Tournament poker is about 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 play... |
Turn Donk Bets Responding effectively to donk bets on the turn is tricky;, there’s no getting around 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 ... |
making sure you… Overcalling From the BB In poker, overcalling refers to calling a bet or raise 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 an... |
the act of calling a preflop raise when you don’t close… Flop Heuristics: IP C-Betting in MTTs 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 s... |
possible “combinations” (combos) of any… Stack-to-pot ratio Stack-to-pot ratio, or SPR, is a way of measuring how 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 Skill... |
The Right Way To Think About Protection Suppose Paul the Protector is in a 200bb cash game and opens A ♠ A ♣ in the SB. The BB calls, and the flop is 8 ♥ 6 ♦ 4 ♥ . He might be tempted to fire a 75% pot c-bet here, as betting allows him to “charge flush draws on a wet board” and “protect his hand against some straight d... |
checking: when Paul checks OOP, BB is not guaranteed to check back. Because this board texture is relatively advantageous for their range, she will stab with hands such as Q ♦ 9 ♠ and K ♣ 2 ♣ , which are drawing near-dead Drawing dead When one player has no outs to win a hand, and is therefore guaranteed to lose the ha... |
in a high-equity draw . Rather, the primary goal of betting with “value hands” should be to get calls from hands that are drawing much closer to dead. On the flip side, the goal of betting with “bluffs” should be to fold out as much equity as possible. When thin value hands can also “bluff” off/deny another part of the... |
EV (often more than many made hands) and will always continue facing most “standard” c-bet sizes. When c-betting the flop, don’t focus on “charging” these hands. Instead, think about the following heuristics: When you are OOP and lack a significant range advantage Range advantage A general term meaning one players rang... |
preflop raiser in a 100bb cash… When To Encourage Multiway Pots in PKOs I was recently shown this fascinating PKO hand from the GTO Wizard PKO library. Somebody… Protect Equity and Prosper When we think about the best hands to bet in a given situation, we tend… Do Solvers Have Targets? Targeting has long been a staple ... |
Turn Reports feature to… Navigating Range Disadvantage as the 3-Bettor Picture this: We’re playing a NL500 6-max cash game, and we’ve won a few pots,… Mastering Three-Bet Pots In Position in MTTs Playing in position against a three-better is a lesson in playing to your advantages. As… Mastering Three-Bet Pots Out of Po... |
Paired Flops From the BB Paired flops present unique challenges to both a preflop raiser and a BB caller. The… KK vs QQ vs JJ at WSOP Main Event With only fourteen players remaining in the 2023 WSOP Main Event and blinds of 400K/800K/800K,… Responding to BB Squeezes You open raise, someone calls, and the BB squeezes. H... |
the features I found most… The ICM Benefits of Late Registration in Poker Tournaments Why do so many professional poker players register late for tournaments when they clearly would… Flop Heuristics: OOP C-Betting in MTTs Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and dramatically more difficu... |
best understood not as a rigid… Interpreting Equity Distributions GTO Wizard’s range vs range equity distribution graphs are an excellent tool for visualizing which… What is Leverage in poker? Leverage refers to the risk of future betting. When you call a bet on the… Reasons for value betting in poker You’re probably a... |
your intuition as a… The 10 Most Important Concepts for New Poker Players The 10 Most Important Concepts for New Poker Players. Fundamentals are one of the most… What is GTO in Poker? The meaning of GTO in poker is Game Theory Optimal. Game theory is a study… What does GTO aim to achieve? So what exactly is a GTO strat... |
The Science of Learning Applied to GTO Wizard Theory The way we were taught to study in schools was flawed and has negatively impacted our study… 27/02/2024 19 min. / 5 sec. |
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Mastering Three-Bet Pots Out of Position in MTTs Three-bet pots are scary. Playing out of position is scary. Put them together, and you’ve got many a poker player’s nightmare. As always, the best way to combat that anxiety is to arm yourself with information. Once you understand the principles that guide your play in t... |
out of position, so with the exception of exactly AA , the opener will generally four-bet their strongest hands, leading them to call with a largely capped Capped range A range without many very strong hands range. Much like calling from the BB, calling a three-bet from out of position is voluntarily entering a disadva... |
Many of the hands that would pay off the check-raise will continue betting later streets for value anyway. Despite what we said before about CO folding at higher than MDF, they nevertheless have a lot of counter-intuitive calls and raises when facing a tiny continuation bet on such a dry board. They never fold a pair a... |
highly, and call with flush draws that have showdown value against BTN’s bluffs (high Ace-x of diamonds also pure calls). Playing Later Streets There are too many distinct later street scenarios to provide even an overview of them all here. The good news is that the same strategic principles that guide your play when p... |
50% of the 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 P... |
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 Wizard blog that make go... |
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? One of the criticisms of ... |
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 Game Theory ... |
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, performing reasonably w... |
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 formulas in po... |
Does your range affect your strategy? Advanced players will often tell you that your range affects your strategy. They’ll tell you that you’re playing range-vs-range, and that you need to think about your overall range rather than only looking at your hand. While this is undoubtedly good advice, it leads to a widesprea... |
examine a clairvoyant toy game. Pot = $10 Stack = $10 Board = 33322 Hero has: 50% AA and 50% QQ Villain has 100% KK Hero shoves pot on the river Let’s start by solving this game to find the equilibrium strategy. Then we’ll adjust the strategies to see how much either player gains or loses. Hero should always bet the nu... |
perceive you as bluffy, then they call more. If they perceive your range as weak, then they can attack more aggressively. However, if their strategy is unchanging (fixed), your range has no impact on the optimal strategy of your hand. You can simply maximize your hand against their fixed strategy without regard for bal... |
their overall fold/call/raise ranges. Any mixed action is playable in a vacuum. Any low-frequency play can be justified in a vacuum. You could get 100% accuracy in the hand history Analyzer and still be highly exploitable due to mixing mistakes. Conversely, you could be playing many mixing mistakes and never be exploit... |
too often and… Defending Against Tiny 3-Bets Tournament poker is about 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... |
donk bets on the turn is tricky;, there’s no getting around 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 othe... |
BB In poker, overcalling refers to calling a bet or raise 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 overb... |
raise when you don’t close… Flop Heuristics: IP C-Betting in MTTs 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 Knocko... |
ratio Stack-to-pot ratio, or SPR, is a way of measuring how 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 W... |
How to Handle Loose-Passive Limpers Solver charts and presolved solutions do not offer much in the way of explicit guidance for responding to limpers. This is because players are generally not incentivized to limp from any position save the SB, and even when they are, the ranges with which a solver would limp are quite... |
can’t get too out-of-line anyway, so you should mostly be contesting the pot with strong hands that want to grow the pot immediately, and you will benefit from denying equity (or at least charging a higher price) to the players behind you. In fact, one of the biggest risks of overlimping when you do not have the BTN is... |
your position on future streets. In fact, when you raise from the CO or BTN against limpers, you profit not only from the weak ranges of the limpers themselves but also from the passivity of the players who have not yet acted, who could exploit you by 3-betting aggressively but are unlikely to do so. You benefit much m... |
is sometimes made out to be. Charging draws is not an all-consuming strategic necessity. Indeed, BTN checks more than half their range, including some overpairs: BTN flop strategy on 764 tt vs LJ check The pure checks are all unpaired overcards , especially those without backdoor draws. These are great examples of hand... |
When BTN does not hold an Ace, the limper has top pair or better about 22% of the time. If the limper continues checking later streets, the weak Ace-x will be strong enough to bet for value on many turns and rivers, whereas the pocket pairs will mostly check it down. With so much Ace-x in the limper’s range, blocking i... |
flawed and has negatively impacted… Check-Raising a Single Pair In this article, I will address a question raised by Twitter/X user ’Matt Riley’, who… The Turn Probe Bet Imagine yourself defending as the BB caller vs BTN preflop raiser in a 100bb cash… When To Encourage Multiway Pots in PKOs I was recently shown this f... |
for exploitation,… Preflop Button Mastery in PKOs Playing from the Button presents many unique opportunities in any tournament format, especially in PKOs.… The Worst Turn Card Greetings from GTO land. In today’s article, we will use the Turn Reports feature to… Navigating Range Disadvantage as the 3-Bettor Picture this... |
Paired Flops This is a companion piece to Attacking Paired Flops from the BB; you will get… Mastering PKO Final Tables Final tables can be the most exciting and rewarding phase of a tournament, and being… Attacking Paired Flops From the BB Paired flops present unique challenges to both a preflop raiser and a BB caller.... |
IP C-Betting in Cash Games Our never-ending quest for money and fame leads us to the flop. We open the… How ICM Impacts Restealing From The Blinds When I first started working with preflop solves, one of the features I found most… The ICM Benefits of Late Registration in Poker Tournaments Why do so many professional po... |
M. Malmuth and is one… How to Study GTO Solutions Tools like GTO Wizard and other solvers should not be used to memorize specific strategies.… Principles of GTO Game theory, or GTO (for Game Theoretically Optimal), is best understood not as a rigid… Interpreting Equity Distributions GTO Wizard’s range vs range equity d... |
it to GTO Wizard, and… Understanding Nash Distance Understanding Nash Distance. One of the most common questions when studying with solvers is “Why… Combinatorics Poker Puzzle Today we have a special puzzle for you that will test your intuition as a… The 10 Most Important Concepts for New Poker Players The 10 Most Impo... |
Do Solvers Have Targets? Targeting has long been a staple of exploitative Exploitative Strategy A strategy designed around exploiting the mistakes of your opponents. Often used in contrast to GTO, which is designed to decrease the exploitability of your own strategy. See: MES/Nemesis. poker thinking. When you’re value ... |
The same principles apply to more complex solutions. When the solver mixes across four different continuation bet sizes, each of those bets has slightly different targets. But the principles are easier to see when we restrict ourselves to just a few options. In this scenario, BTN bets 67% pot with roughly half their ra... |
faced with tough decisions are now toward the bottom of their range for seeing the turn, and so trivial folds. Hands that were strong enough to never-fold flop get into trouble when facing another bet. Stronger hands have tough decisions on the turn because BB’s entire range is stronger after having called the flop bet... |
a range Set up future value bets and bluffs (that will, once again, give rise to tough decisions) Induce some check-raises, and discourage others Identifying the target does not give you the full story, but it’s a useful starting point. GTO Wizard the #1 App for Poker players Study any spot imaginable Practice by playi... |
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 Wizard blog that make good prerequisites to this… The Right Way To Think About Protection Suppose Paul the... |
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? One of the criticisms of ICM is that it is boring and robotic. In my… OOP C-betting vs Loose Cold... |
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 Game Theory of Chopped Boards A “chopped board” in poker is one where the community cards make ... |
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, performing reasonably well no matter how your opponents… How ICM Impacts Postflop Strategy Most players ... |
“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 formulas in poker. How to solve toy games Poker is a complicated game. It’s impossible to calculate GTO ... |
Dynamic Sizing Benchmarks Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy with the highest EV Expected Value (EV) The anticipated value one expects from any hand, position, or play. EV is calculated as a weighted average of all possible outcomes weighed by the probabili... |
strategy! Single Best Size represents performance relative to playing the best one-size strategy. Complex Strategy represents performance relative to playing a complex strategy with 8 bet sizes. In all cases , Hero is playing against a complex exploitative opponent, doing everything in their power to punish our simplif... |
has more incentive to block-bet, and can even value bet with hands that are slightly behind when called due to the EV of checking being lower. But this is a discussion for another article! Benchmarks Against Slumbot We were thrilled to find that when battling vs. Slumbot , the highest performing 150,000 hand trial was ... |
Preflop Raise Sizing: Examining 2 Key Factors It amazes me that, after nearly twenty years of playing no-limit hold ‘em professionally, I… How to Handle Loose-Passive Limpers Solver charts and presolved solutions do not offer much in the way of explicit guidance… Top 5 Mistakes in Spin & Gos As a Spin and Go poker coac... |
tendency… Adjusting on Later Streets After Exploiting Flop The key to exploiting opponents profitably is knowing when to stop. I’m not referring to… C-Betting IP vs Passive Poker Players A preflop raiser enjoys a significant range advantage over a BB caller, enabling them to… C-Betting Against ICM Preflop Ranges You ra... |
two articles, I wrote about the effect field size and payout structure… How Payout Structures Impact ICM Last time we discussed the ICM considerations in game selection, we looked at 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... |
Betting for Donkeys? “Donk betting”, or betting from out of position into the player who was the aggressor… Delayed C-Betting This is a companion piece to Probe Betting. It stands 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 Bi... |
decisions.… The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments In poker, a PKO (Progressive Knockout) tournament is a type of tournament where a portion… How To Analyze Turn Textures In Poker Master the art of turn analysis in poker. Understand how the turn card changes the… Principles of Turn Strategy Learn the principles... |
a fundamental calculation in poker. In the simplest terms, pot odds tell… Does your range affect your strategy? Advanced players will often tell you that your range affects your strategy. Visualizing implied odds Implied odds are the value you expect to gain over and above your raw equity.… ICM Basics As a tournament p... |
Overcalling From the BB In poker, overcalling Overcall To call a bet when at least one other player has already called. refers to calling a bet or raise after another player has also called. Should you call an open raise wider or tighter once another player has called? One common misunderstanding around pot odds is tha... |
This is true at all stack depths and regardless of the positions of the other players contesting the pot. Overcalling Analytics The following chart shows the BB’s response to an UTG raise with no calls, with a call from the BTN, and with calls from the BTN and SB in front of them. Notice that at all stack depths, BB fo... |
Aces is no longer worth much without a decent kicker. With the exception of exactly A9 o, every hand BB overcalls in this scenario has the potential to make a two-card straight or flush . These offsuit hands don’t perform much better with the action starting in late position. Facing a CO raise and BTN and SB calls, BB’... |
medium pairs and big offsuit Aces which value fold equity and can be tricky to play when a smaller three-bet is called. More money in the pot incentives opponents to call with weaker hands than they would when no one called the initial raise, but this is not the main reason BB three-bets a wider value range . The fold ... |
are hard to win . Making multiple opponents fold is difficult, so you must often triumph at showdown . But the average winning hand at showdown will be stronger, because you will typically go to showdown against the strongest of several hands that saw the flop, which means you must have an even stronger hand. Being out... |
the BTN open-limps off a short stack, the postflop play against the BB should… I’d Rather Be Drawing Which is the better hand on a K♥8♦5♦ flop: K♠T♣ or 7♥6♥? OK, I’ll admit… The Curious Case of Open-Limping Buttons Before the advent of solvers, open-limping was considered the province of passive, gambley recreational p... |
Table in Triton History Today, we’ll examine one of the most epic final table battles I’ve ever witnessed! Our… Mastering Thin Value Bets in Checked-Down Pots Valuing your hand appropriately—determining whether it’s strong enough to value bet or so weak you… Maximizing Value on Monotone Flops Monotone flops tend to pro... |
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