Solved HandKnow the play. Understand the why.
Build your Texas Hold'em game with interactive lessons, solver-graded drills and full hands against bots. See the right play, understand what mistakes cost, and practice the spots that trip you up.
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- The call that loses and still paysA two-minute interactive lesson. Decide whether to call, then see why a call you usually lose can still make money.
- Daily puzzleFive preflop decisions a day, the same for everyone, graded against the charts. Share your row of squares.
- Push/fold chartsWhen to go all-in or fold with a short stack, by chipEV or ICM, for any stacks, antes and payouts.
- Preflop range chartsWhich hands to play from every seat: opening, facing a raise, facing a 3-bet and more, from 100 big blinds down to 15.
- Poker calculatorsOdds, equity, outs and pot odds, a push/fold solver, ICM and chip chop, variance and a printable cheat sheet.
- Poker mathPot odds, required equity, expected value and ICM: each formula with its symbols explained and a worked example.
- Variance and bankrollHow long a winning tournament player's downswings last, and the bankroll that survives them.
- Poker glossaryOver 200 terms, each with a worked example and links to the lessons and tools that use it.
How the trainer works
- 1
Find your level
Eight quick questions and a placement test put you at the right point on the learning path.
- 2
Learn
Short units from beginner to pro. Each lesson is animated and narrated, and it stops to ask what you would do before it shows why.
- 3
Drill
Preflop and postflop spots, chosen by so the ones you miss come back sooner.
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Play
Full hands against bots in cash games and tournaments. Every mistake you make at the table comes back as a drill.
Inside the trainer
For invited players, while the trainer is in early access.
A learning path
Units from beginner to pro, with 48 interactive lessons, checks after each one and level exams.
Graded preflop drills
Every answer is graded against the range charts and shows the chips the mistake cost, its .
Solver flops
Flop decisions graded against for 575 flops across 13 heads-up spots.
Tables against bots
Cash games, tournaments and named bots, each with its own style to learn and beat.
Your own hands, graded
Import PokerStars or GGPoker hands and see the postflop decisions graded in heads-up, single-raised and 3-bet pots. Anything else gets a rule of thumb, and the page says so.
The mental game and reads
Tilt, variance, routines, and a sourced ladder for reading opponents, with what each idea does and does not mean.
Exact means solved until neither player could gain more than 0.75% of the pot by changing strategy.
Turnstone
A solver pack only covers flops that were solved in advance. Turnstone delivers flop strategy in seconds for the other flops it covers. It searches the flop and asks a network trained on exact turn solves what each hand is worth.
- Next to an exact solve, its play gives up about on average, measured over 575 flops in 13 spots. Its weakest spot, 3-bet pots at 40 big blinds, gives up 0.79%.
- Answers arrive in seconds once the engine is running. The first answer after a quiet spell takes longer.
- Every grade says where it came from: , with its measured loss, approximate or rule of thumb.
Questions
- Is it free?
- The lesson and the tools on this page are free, with no account. The full trainer is invite only while it is in early access.
- Which game does it teach?
- No-limit Texas Hold'em, with a focus on tournaments. Cash games, six-handed tables and heads-up play are covered too.
- Where do the answers come from?
- Preflop charts come from a solver run over the six-handed and heads-up preflop trees. Flop grades come from exact solves, or from the engine when a flop was not solved in advance. Every grade says which, through its . The math on this page is computed by the same code that grades your play.
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