Author Archives: Tombos21

The mathematics of poker holds a little-known secret: the first bettor enjoys better bluffing odds than someone…

25/04/2023 5 min. / 46 sec.

One of the most frequently asked questions in poker is how to calculate the size of a…

27/02/2023 2 min. / 49 sec.

While lots of work has been placed into research and explanation of heads-up pot strategy, multiway pots…

13/02/2023 15 min. / 12 sec.

In poker, a PKO (Progressive Knockout) tournament is a type of tournament where a portion of the…

06/02/2023 10 min. / 55 sec.

A Game Theory Optimal solver is an algorithm that calculates the best possible poker strategy. But how…

23/01/2023 13 min. / 32 sec.

The Independent Chip Model (ICM) was invented in 1987 by M. Malmuth and is one of the…

05/01/2023 17 min. / 49 sec.

Poker is a game of small edges and big swings. Every hand is an investment into your…

05/12/2022 17 min. / 11 sec.

“Pot Geometry” refers to betting an equal fraction of the pot on each street, such that you’re…

22/11/2022 7 min. / 23 sec.

Combinatorics is a fancy term for evaluating the number of possible “combinations” (combos) of any given hand:…

21/11/2022 8 min. / 55 sec.