Strategies lets you build any spot by hand and see the strategy for it, before or after you play it. Build the hand action by action, then walk it through the flop, turn and river. Start in the Game Configuration panel on the left.
The four steps
- Set the simulation type, table and stack.
- Build the preflop action, one seat at a time.
- Pick the flop cards when the line gets there.
- Carry the line on to the turn and the river.
1. Set the type, table and stack
Open Game Configuration and pick your room in the Site row. On No Rake the Study row offers Precision and Expand, and the choice decides which spots the solver can reach for you. Simulation Types covers which one fits what you are studying.
The configuration panel: the site, the stake, the type, the study depth, the number of players and the stack.
Two rows set the shape of the hand:
- Players decides how many seats are in the hand. On No Rake it runs from 3 to 6-max.
- Stack decides how deep everyone plays. On No Rake that is 10, 30, 50 or 100 big blinds.
Raked rooms offer more seats and deeper stacks.
Set both before you build the line, because they frame every action you add next.
Once you pick your first preflop action, the panel shrinks to three buttons: the room and type, the number of players and the stack. Click the number of players or the stack to change it, or the room and type to reopen the full choice.
2. Build the preflop line
The Preflop builder gives you a row per seat, from EP through MP, CO, BTN, SB and BB. The seat next to act shows its available actions as numbered buttons.
- Click a fold, call, check or raise on the seat that is next to act.
- Repeat until the line reaches the seat and street you want to study.
You are building the hand itself, exactly as it played or as you want to test it. The strategy you get back belongs to that precise line.
Seats that fold collapse into a single chip, so the tree stays on the players still in the hand. Once preflop is set, the Preflop row collapses to a short summary of the line and who is left in it.
While you build, the State Info line keeps score with the Pot, the SPR (its stack-to-pot ratio) and the Rake. It recalculates on every action, so the depth you read is always the one behind the strategy on screen.
3. Pick the board
When the line reaches the flop, a board-card picker opens with card slots, a four-color grid of all thirteen ranks in each suit, a Random button and an Apply button. Cards already on the board cannot be picked again.
- Pick three cards and the flop applies the moment the third lands, so you rarely touch Apply.
- Stop at two cards and Apply fills in the third for you.
- Click Random to deal a random flop instead of choosing.
To change a card that is already on the board, reopen the picker.
4. Carry on to the turn and the river
You can push a line all the way to a river decision. The turn adds a fourth card slot to the picker and the river adds a fifth.
The left panel with a hand walked to the river: preflop, flop, turn and river, each with the actions taken.
When the flop applies, the center panel swaps your preflop range for the flop strategy, and the action tree gains postflop bet options. The flop strategy view holds the range, the hand-type categories and the equity buckets, each with its own guide linked below.
Bet sizing grows with the street. The flop and turn each show a single bet size. The river shows several, plus a Customize control for your own sizes, which Real-Time River Solving covers along with solving any river.
Undo a mistake
The action panel has undo and redo controls at the top. Restart action sequence clears the line and starts it over. Both are the way back from a misclicked seat; Escape is not, because it clears the board as well.
Save or reload a spot
The whole spot lives in the page URL: the configuration, the preflop action, the later streets and the board cards. Copy the URL to keep a spot or send it to someone.
Opening that URL rebuilds the exact spot, with nothing to click again. It is the simplest way to bookmark a spot you study often or hand one to a study partner.
Here is a spot to open, built the way this article describes, one seat at a time.
A real spot to open
Where to go next
- Strategies Overview covers what Strategies is and when to use it.
- Simulation Types explains the simulation types and the Trust Score.
- The Range View and Syntax Search reads the range for a spot and searches it for combos.
- Hand Categories breaks the range into hand types on each street.
- Equity Buckets and the Equity Graph compares range equity across the buckets.
- Aggregated Reports studies all 1755 flops at once.
- Real-Time River Solving runs a live solve on any river and lets you set your own bet sizes.