Ranges & GTO

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What is GTO in Poker?

Gto

GTO Game Theory Optimal is a strategy that makes you unexploitable by balancing bluffs and value. It is not the same as…

What is an Exploit in Poker?

Exploit

An exploit is a deliberate deviation from balanced play to profit from a specific opponent's predictable mistake. It is…

Game Theory Optimal

Game Theory Optimal GTO refers to a poker strategy that achieves perfect theoretical balance, making it impossible for …

What is Range Advantage in Poker?

Range Advantage

Range advantage means your possible hands beat your opponent's possible hands. It does not mean you have a made hand. I…

Solver

In practice, solvers help players identify theoretically optimal strategies for given situations, such as bet sizing, r…

What is a Blocker in Poker?

Blockers

A blocker is a card in your hand that reduces the chance an opponent holds a specific hand. It's not a guarantee, but i…

What is a Polarized Range in Poker?

Polarized Range

A polarized range contains only very strong hands and weak hands, with few medium-strength hands. It is not the same as…

Blocker Effect

In practice, it is often used to assess the likelihood of an opponent's range. For example, when you hold an Ace, the n…

GTO Wizard

GTO Wizard is a web-based poker training platform that provides pre-solved game theory optimal GTO solutions for variou…

Exploitative Play

Its core lies in identifying and exploiting fixed patterns in opponents, such as being too passive, over-folding, or ha…

Nut Blocker

e., the nuts on the current board. In practice, holding a nut blocker can significantly increase your bluff success rat…

MonkerSolver

MonkerSolver is a commercial poker solver software used for game theory optimal GTO analysis of No-Limit Hold'em NLHE a…

Solver Output

The results generated by poker solver software that prescribe optimal Game Theory Optimal actions for each decision poi…

Blocker Bet

In practice, it is often used when you hold a marginal hand but suspect your opponent might be bluffing or have a sligh…

Combo Counting

Combo counting is the process of enumerating the number of possible hand combinations a player can hold given the known…

Combo Count

The number of distinct possible hand combinations a player can hold given the known cards and ranges, used in poker to …

Merged Line

A betting or raising strategy where a player's range includes both value hands and bluffs, making their actions difficu…

Meta Exploit

An exploitative strategy that targets opponents' predictable adjustments or tendencies in the meta-game the game above …

Pool Exploit

A strategy that identifies and capitalizes on systematic weaknesses or predictable tendencies across a player populatio…

What is a Merged Range in Poker?

Merged Range

A merged range contains strong made hands and medium-strength hands, betting for value and protection. It is the opposi…

Nash Equilibrium Push

In poker, a Nash Equilibrium push is a shoving all-in action that forms part of a push/fold strategy where neither play…

Polarized Turn

A turn bet that consists only of very strong hands value and weak hands bluffs, excluding all medium-strength hands.

Exploitability

In poker, exploitability measures the maximum expected value EV a strategy loses against an optimal counter-strategy, i…

PLO Nut Blocker

A card or combination of cards held by a player that prevents an opponent from holding the absolute best possible hand …

Straight Blocker

Its core meaning is that the card itself makes it impossible for the opponent to form a certain straight combination. I…

Combo Draw

In practice, combo draws have extremely high equity and huge potential value, maintaining over 50% equity even against …

Combo Blocker

In practice, it helps players more accurately assess an opponent’s range. For example, when you hold A♥, your opponent …

Solver Use

The practice of employing game theory optimal GTO solver software to analyze poker strategies and develop balanced rang…

Polarized Line

A betting or raising strategy where a player's range consists of only very strong hands value and weak hands bluffs, wi…

Polarized River

A river betting situation where a player's range consists only of strong value hands and bluffs, with no medium-strengt…

Capped Range Advantage

A strategic edge held by a player with an uncapped range over an opponent whose range cannot contain the strongest poss…

Nash Push Chart

It is specifically used to determine whether the small blind player should shove all-in or fold at a given stack depth …

Blocker Bluff

A bluff made with a hand that includes a blocker, a card that reduces the probability that opponents hold strong hands …

Nut Flush Blocker

A hand that includes the ace of a suit that is the nut flush, thereby blocking opponents from holding the absolute best…

Solver Study

Solver study is the practice of using poker solver software to analyze and improve strategic decision-making by approxi…

Solver Node

A solver node is a specific decision point in a poker game tree e.g., a street, board, facing a bet size where a solver…

Range Advantage Turn

The strategic edge a player holds on the turn because their overall hand range is stronger than the opponent's, often d…

Population Exploit

A poker strategy that involves adjusting one's play to exploit the typical mistakes, tendencies, and imbalances of the …

Value Blocker

A value blocker is a card in your hand that reduces the probability your opponent holds a strong hand, enabling you to …

Uncapped Range Advantage

Uncapped Range Advantage refers to the strategic edge a player holds when their range contains the strongest possible h…

Blocker Combo

A blocker combo is a hand that includes one or more cards that reduce the number of possible combinations of an opponen…

Omaha Nut Blocker

In Omaha, a nut blocker is a card held by a player that prevents opponents from holding the absolute best possible hand…

Solver Study Group

A group of poker players who collaboratively study and discuss game theory optimal GTO strategies using solver software.

Nut Blocker Bluff

A bluff that relies on holding a card that prevents the opponent from having the nut hand, making it less likely they c…

PioSolver

PioSolver is a software tool for computing game theory optimal GTO strategies in poker, primarily used for no-limit hol…

Counter-Exploit

In practice, when an opponent frequently profits by exploiting your fixed playing patterns, counter-exploitation can fo…

Nash Equilibrium

A solution concept in game theory where each player's strategy is optimal given the strategies of all other players, me…

Unblocker

An unblocker is a card in a player's hand that does not block i.e., does not reduce the probability of an opponent hold…