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Exploit or leak: how to check your deviation from the solver
Deviating from the solver against the pool is normal. The question is whether it makes money against your opponents. How we compare your line with the solver's line against the regs at your tables, what the Play like solver tab will show, and why the price there is an interval, not a promise.
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Solver vs the pool: why locking one flop is not enough
Against a reg who bets the flop and the turn a lot, a flop-only lock says check-raise more. A two-street lock shows something else: call the flop and play the turn. An example of BTN vs BB on K♠7♥4♠ and three reasons why pool locks usually lie.
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All-in EV and EV diff: when to trust them
The green line is below the yellow one, and it looks like you are simply running bad. What all-in EV actually counts, why it does not measure luck as a whole, and which conclusions you can draw from it and which you cannot.
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Flop cbet: why "the 60% norm" means nothing
Cbet frequency by itself does not say whether you lose money. What actually determines the right frequency, what an expensive cbet mistake looks like, and what to look at in the database instead of the overall percentage.
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How to export your hand history for a review: PokerStars, GGPoker, Hand2Note, HM3, PT4
Where each room keeps its hand history files, how to export your whole database from a tracker as one archive, and what to check before sending so the review does not stumble on step one.
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Rake at NL10–NL100: how much it takes and what to do about it
At micro stakes rake eats more than any mistake in play. How many bb/100 go to rake at different stakes, why a player in the plus before rake ends up in the minus after it, and which decisions actually change that.
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Folding bluffcatchers on the river: the most expensive reg mistake
In database reviews of NL25–NL200 regs the first finding by price is almost always the same. Why river folds cost so much, where they pay off and where they do not, and how to check yours by bet size and pot.
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SB against an open: 3bet or call
The small blind loses money for everyone, the only question is how much. Why a call from the SB is more expensive than it looks, when it is still justified, and how to check in your database that your SB strategy is not costing extra bb/100.
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How to find leaks in your own database: the order of review
A tracker shows hundreds of stats, and almost any of them can be called a leak. The order in which to read your database so you find the mistakes that cost money and do not fix what already works.
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Red line and blue line: what they show and why a falling red line is not a verdict
Showdown and non-showdown winnings, what they are made of, why the red line slopes down for most winning regs and in which cases its fall really costs money.
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Q♠J♥2♥: how the solver plays the cbet in a single-raised pot, BTN vs BB
One flop, taken apart with our solver run. Who is stronger on the board, which hands bet 33% and 75%, how the BB defends, why a heart in the hand decides everything and on which turn cards the BTN keeps going.
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Q♠J♥2♥ vs the pool: where the BB departs from the solver and how the BTN uses it
A single-raised pot, BTN vs BB, on a year of NL200. The pool plays the flop like the solver, almost never donks the turn after calling a cbet and rarely raises the river. The solver's answer is not a flop bet but a check — against this pool a 33% cbet costs 0.21 bb per hand, a 75% cbet 0.45.
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Winrate by position in cash games: which numbers are normal
The BTN should be well in the plus, the blinds are always in the minus. Benchmarks for every position in 6-max cash, why they are what they are and what "BB below the norm" actually means.
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WWSF, WTSD and W$SD: what they show and what is normal
Three postflop stats everyone looks at and most people read wrong. What each one counts, which values are normal in cash games and why none of them, on its own, will show you a leak.
Videos
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The full review: every decision against the solver — videovideo
One minute, no sound: the interactive full review in the account — the price of every hand in a spot, the solver’s preflop grid and “My hands”, your hands move by move against the solver, the solver’s flop branches and the “Pool” tab. A demo NL100 database, nickname removed.
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What the bot sends: the free express — videovideo
One minute, no sound: the free express from the Telegram bot — how many of your leaks have a price in bb, the three most expensive with the price of each, in how many postflop situations you play differently from the solver, and a sample full review with the numbers blurred. A demo database, nickname removed.
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Your account: leak progress and Play like solver — videovideo
One minute, no sound: the LeakPrice account — whether you repeat the same leak from review to review, where the solver plays better than you (Play like solver) and where you already exploit the pool. A real database, nickname removed.
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The solver vs the pool: an exploit on Q♠J♥9♥ — videovideo
One minute, no sound: the common LeakPrice pool of NL200–NL5000 regs locked whole from its own hands, where the pool deviates from the solver, how much the BB exploit wins over GTO, and a check on the other half of the database. 3bet pot BB vs BTN, Q♠J♥9♥.