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Preflop strategy, GTO and AI poker

Longer pieces on the things a chart implies but cannot say: why a range has the shape it has, what solver output means, and how to study with it without memorising 169 cells.

11 Aug 2026 12 min Preflop

Preflop ranges by position: what to open from every seat

Position is the single biggest input to a preflop decision. Why that is true, what 6-max and 9-handed opening ranges actually look like seat by seat, the order hands enter a range as you move toward the button, and the combinations trap that makes almost every chart's percentage wrong.

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4 Aug 2026 11 min GTO

What a GTO solver actually tells you

A solve is not a list of correct plays — it is frequencies and expected values for a game you specified precisely. What Nash equilibrium guarantees, why hands mix, what rake and stack depth do to the answer, and why EV loss is the only sensible unit for a mistake.

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28 Jul 2026 9 min AI poker

AI poker coach vs. a range chart

A chart answers the question it was drawn to answer and nothing else. What changes when the same data can be interrogated in English, the fluent-invention failure mode that decides whether an AI poker coach is worth using, and the questions actually worth asking one.

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Put it into practice

Build the chart for your seat and your table size, then ask the coach why it looks like that.