Is Limping Pimping?
In a past Discord post, one of our members noted that an upside of implementing a limping…
Preflop Button Mastery in PKOs
Playing from the Button presents many unique opportunities in any tournament format, especially in PKOs. Apart from…
The Worst Turn Card
Greetings from GTO land. In today’s article, we will use the Turn Reports feature to gain a…
Navigating Range Disadvantage as the 3-Bettor
Picture this: We’re playing a NL500 6-max cash game, and we’ve won a few pots, now sitting…
Mastering Three-Bet Pots In Position in MTTs
Playing in position against a three-better is a lesson in playing to your advantages. As the defending…
Mastering Three-Bet Pots Out of Position in MTTs
Three-bet pots are scary. Playing out of position is scary. Put them together, and you’ve got many…
The Greatest Final Table in Triton History
Today, we’ll examine one of the most epic final table battles I’ve ever witnessed! Our adventure begins…
Mastering Thin Value Bets in Checked-Down Pots
Valuing your hand appropriately—determining whether it’s strong enough to value bet or so weak you should consider…
Introducing GTO Wizard AI Heads Up Preflop Solver
Today, we’re announcing a major upgrade – introducing Heads Up Preflop Solver! And read until the end…
We Are Hiring
With the rise of GTO Wizard’s adoption and its establishment as a consumer staple, we are looking…
Maximizing Value on Monotone Flops
Monotone flops tend to provoke great anxiety among poker players. It’s easy to imagine that your opponent…
How to Defend Against Turn Donk Bets
Responding effectively to donk bets on the turn is tricky;, there’s no getting around that. It’s one…
How and Why You Should Use Turn Donk Bets
Donk betting–taking the betting lead away from the previous street’s aggressor–on the flop is rarely correct and…
How Stack Sizes Change Your Range
In this series, we have looked at factors that can influence ranges in otherwise identical scenarios. As…
Introducing Nodelocking
Today, we roll out the feature you’ve all been asking for: Unleash the power of Nodelocking with…
How to Leverage GTO Wizard’s EV Comparison Tool
With the advent of solvers, some troubling new turns of phrase have entered the poker lexicon. In…
Should You Ever Cold Call a 3-Bet?
When there’s been a raise and re-raise before the action is on you, you will have to…
When ICM Breaks Down
If you have read my previous GTO Wizard articles and my books, you’ll know I am a…
When Is It Correct To Fold AA Preflop?
One of the criticisms of ICM is that it is boring and robotic. In my opinion, nothing…
OOP C-betting vs Loose Cold-callers
In a previous GTO Wizard article, I asserted that “Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and…
Towards a Safer Poker Ecosystem
Over the past years, many cheating accusations and scandals have surfaced in the poker world, be it…
Short-Stacked Play in MTTs
Playing a short stack well is an essential tournament skill. It is extremely rare to win a…
When To Ladder in Tournaments
In my last two articles, I wrote about the effect field size and payout structure have on…
How Payout Structures Impact ICM
Last time we discussed the ICM considerations in game selection, we looked at field size, which has…
C-Betting IP in 3-Bet Pots
When you three-bet before the flop and the original raiser calls from out of position, you have…
C-Betting OOP in 3-Bet Pots
Continuation betting from out of position can be a dicey proposition in single-raised pots. Cold calling ranges…
Dynamic Sizing: A GTO Breakthrough
Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy with the highest EV…
Dynamic Sizing Benchmarks
Dynamic Sizing is a revolutionary new poker algorithm that automatically simplifies your strategy with the highest EV…
Understanding The Impact Of Field Size On ICM In Poker
When people talk about game selection in multi-table tournaments (MTTs), they invariably talk about the number of…
Defending vs BB Check-Raise on Paired Flops
This is a companion piece to Attacking Paired Flops from the BB; you will get more out…
Mastering PKO Final Tables
Final tables can be the most exciting and rewarding phase of a tournament, and being able to…
Attacking Paired Flops From the BB
Paired flops present unique challenges to both a preflop raiser and a BB caller. The difficulty of…
KK vs QQ vs JJ at WSOP Main Event
With only fourteen players remaining in the 2023 WSOP Main Event and blinds of 400K/800K/800K, Joshua Payne…
Responding to BB Squeezes
You open raise, someone calls, and the BB squeezes. How should you construct your strategy? Once there…
Crushing a Top HUNL Poker Bot
In 2022, Philippe Beardsell and Marc-Antoine Provost, a team of Canadian programmers from Quebec, developed the most…
GTO Wizard AI Explained
We are excited to introduce GTO Wizard AI, formerly known as Ruse, the world’s best and fastest…
Introducing GTO Wizard AI
Today, we are proud to introduce another technological breakthrough – GTO Wizard AI. This powerful technology can…
GTO Wizard AI Benchmarks
GTO Wizard has combined the power of artificial intelligence with traditional solving methods to bring you high-quality…
Table Management in PKOs
Perhaps the most important strategic consideration in Progressive Knockout Tournaments (PKOs) is making sure you cover your…
Overcalling From the BB
In poker, overcalling refers to calling a bet or raise after another player has also called. Should…
Understanding Which Mistakes Cost You the Most Money
I am fortunate enough to have worked for many years with the mental game coach Jared Tendler,…
Overbetting The Flop in Cash Games
Although most commonly analyzed on turns and rivers, flop overbetting can be a devastating weapon that generates…
Using New Skills at the Poker Table
How many times has it happened to you that you make a mistake only to realize immediately…
Flatting Ace-X Hands Shortstacked
Playing out of position is tricky, but it’s an essential part of tournament play. With so much…
Playing Limped Pots as the BB in MTTs
Success as the BB in limped pots begins before the flop. The BB’s equilibrium strategy at all…
The Absurd Game Theory of Chopped Boards
A “chopped board” in poker is one where the community cards make up the best 5-card hand…
Playing Limped Pots as the SB in MTTs
MTT confrontations between the small blind and big blind force no-limit players into uncomfortable situations, compelling them…
Simplified Solutions and a New Interface!
Greetings, Wizards! We have an exciting update for you! The interface has been completely redesigned with new…
The Art of Learning Poker
In his book The Art of Learning, chess and Push Hands champion Josh Waitzkin describes a training…
Is Donk Betting for Donkeys?
“Donk betting”, or betting from out of position into the player who was the aggressor on the…
Delayed C-Betting
This is a companion piece to Probe Betting. It stands on its own, but understanding how to…
Probe Betting
As far as rules of thumb go in poker, “check to the raiser” is a pretty good…
ICM and Blind Battles: The Big Blind
This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs blind play…
ICM and Blind Battles: The Small Blind
ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means that at stages of the tournament where risk premiums are…
The Initial Bettor’s Advantage
The mathematics of poker holds a little-known secret: the first bettor enjoys better bluffing odds than someone…
Mastering the Chiplead: The Scalpel and the Sledgehammer
When you have a lot of chips at a final table or in another situation with extreme…
Flop Heuristics: IP C-Betting in Cash Games
Our never-ending quest for money and fame leads us to the flop. We open the button, the…
How ICM Impacts Restealing From The Blinds
When I first started working with preflop solves, one of the features I found most striking was…
The ICM Benefits of Late Registration in Poker Tournaments
Why do so many professional poker players register late for tournaments when they clearly would enjoy a…
Flop Heuristics: OOP C-Betting in MTTs
Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and dramatically more difficult–than playing against a caller from the…
Counterintuitive Calls
Solver outputs such as those provided by GTO Wizard are models of no-limit hold ‘em, not a…
How To Negotiate Final Table Deals
Most people’s first introduction to the Independent Chip Model (ICM) is not from studying bubble play or…
How does ICM impact PKO strategy?
If you have read The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments you already know why we can play…
Understanding Blockers in Poker
Often when looking through a solver’s meticulously crafted grid of deception, one of the following questions arises:…
Flop Heuristics: IP Cold-Caller in MTTs
A Cold-call refers to the act of calling a preflop raise when you don’t close the action…
Flop Heuristics: IP C-Betting in MTTs
In the world of poker, the flop is a crucial stage of the game that sets the…
Flop Heuristics for Defending the Blinds in MTTs
The field of Game Theoretically Optimal poker is extensive, and thus, to simplify our strategy, we frequently…
Multiway strategy in Progressive Knockout Tournaments
Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments are much more complex than traditional MTTs. The fact that players are incentivized…
How To Calculate Raises In Poker
One of the most frequently asked questions in poker is how to calculate the size of a…
New Spins solutions, Study Plans & EV Comparison
We have another fantastic update for you today! We’ve added a completely new sets of high-accuracy Spin…
Principles of River Play
The river offers the least complicated strategy of any betting street. With no further cards to come,…
Exploitative Dynamics
GTO solutions are designed to be unexploitable, performing reasonably well no matter how your opponents play. They…
How ICM Impacts Postflop Strategy
Most players understand how the Independent Chip Model (ICM) in poker impacts their strategy preflop, especially at…
10 Tips for Multiway Pots in Poker
While lots of work has been placed into research and explanation of heads-up pot strategy, multiway pots…
What is the Bubble Factor in poker tournaments?
The Independent Chip Model (ICM) shows us the real money implications of tournament chip decisions. Most players…
The Theory of Progressive Knockout Tournaments
In poker, a PKO (Progressive Knockout) tournament is a type of tournament where a portion of the…
How To Analyze Turn Textures In Poker
Master the art of turn analysis in poker. Understand how the turn card changes the dynamics of…
Principles of Turn Strategy
Learn the principles of turn strategy in poker and discover what makes the turn unique. Understand how…
Poker Strategies: Tournaments vs. Cash Games
Tournament poker is not as different from cash game poker as people sometimes assume. Most of what…