Author Archives: Andrew Brokos

This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs blind play…

02/05/2023 7 min. / 15 sec.

ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means that at stages of the tournament where risk premiums are…

01/05/2023 6 min. / 26 sec.

When you have a lot of chips at a final table or in another situation with extreme…

24/04/2023 8 min. / 49 sec.

When I first started working with preflop solves, one of the features I found most striking was…

17/04/2023 9 min. / 39 sec.

Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and dramatically more difficult–than playing against a caller from the…

04/04/2023 9 min. / 21 sec.

Solver outputs such as those provided by GTO Wizard are models of no-limit hold ‘em, not a…

03/04/2023 9 min. / 55 sec.

A Cold-call refers to the act of calling a preflop raise when you don’t close the action…

13/03/2023 5 min. / 25 sec.

In the world of poker, the flop is a crucial stage of the game that sets the…

07/03/2023 8 min. / 38 sec.

The field of Game Theoretically Optimal poker is extensive, and thus, to simplify our strategy, we frequently…

06/03/2023 8 min. / 42 sec.