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Barry Carter

Barry Carter has been a poker writer for 16 years. He is the co-author of six poker books, including The Mental Game of Poker, Endgame Poker Strategy: The ICM Book, and GTO Poker Simplified.

Barry Carter

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How Payout Structures Reshape Postflop Strategy

How Payout Structures Reshape Postflop Strategy

Is all ICM pressure the same, or should we tailor our postflop strategy to different payout structures? How big of an error is it to take the same default final table strategy into a tournament that features a more top-heavy or a more flat payout distribution?

How ICM Quietly Shapes Postflop Strategy From the Start

How ICM Quietly Shapes Postflop Strategy From the Start

How significant is ICM at the start—as in the very first hand—of a tournament? Have we been learning the wrong way all this time by using Chip EV ranges to study spots when stacks are deep and few players have been eliminated?

Are You Leaving Value on the River?

Are You Leaving Value on the River?

In the early days of online poker, players were too loose. In the modern era, I think the prevailing leak is that they are too tight. Perhaps the most consistent leak I have noticed in the last six months before writing this piece is players who just call with nutted hands on the river, because they

Roundtable: Aha! Moments in GTO Wizard

Roundtable: Aha! Moments in GTO Wizard

Understanding solver technology is very challenging. You not only have to grapple with the technology itself, which does not come naturally to a lot of people, but you also have to determine why the solver takes lines you could not even conceive of.