The Exploitative charts were calculated using solvers on a sample of over 1 million real poker hands played on poker sites by recreational players.
They allow you to exploit the common mistakes made by your opponents, ensuring maximum profitability.
If you're a beginner or intermediate player, these are the perfect charts to learn in order to start dominating your tables.
Calculated using solvers, GTO provides you with a perfectly unexploitable game. This means that even the best poker AI would be unable to make money against you.
However, in practice, playing GTO perfectly is difficult and even less profitable than playing Exploitative against 99% of the players you'll encounter at your tables.
The purpose of these charts is therefore not to be memorized, but rather to be compared with the Exploitative charts in order to analyze how and why the Exploitative charts deviate from GTO.
In poker, you are in "3-max" when there are 3 players at the table.
In 3-max, you will alternately be in the Button (BTN), Small Blind (SB) and Big Blind (BB).
In poker, you are in "Heads-up" when there are only two players left at the table.
In Heads-up, you will alternately be in the Small Blind (SB) and Big Blind (BB).
Note that in Heads-up, the Small Blind acts first preflop but last post-flop.
Not all spots have the same importance. Some occur more frequently, others involve bigger pots.
To help you prioritize your learning, we use two simple symbols:
- The “1 chip” symbol (important spot): frequent spots and/or with a high average pot.
- The “2 chips” symbol (very important spot): very frequent spots and/or with a very high average pot.