Category Archives: Theory

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.

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

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

Our never-ending quest for money and fame leads us to the flop. We open the button, the…

18/04/2023 10 min. / 54 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.

Why do so many professional poker players register late for tournaments when they clearly would enjoy a…

10/04/2023 11 min. / 49 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.

Most people’s first introduction to the Independent Chip Model (ICM) is not from studying bubble play or…

27/03/2023 10 min. / 32 sec.

If you have read The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments you already know why we can play…

23/03/2023 20 min. / 27 sec.