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Simulation Types: Precision, Expand, Preflop Only

How to choose Precision or Expand in the Game Configuration panel, the full three-way comparison in the guide, what Trust Score tells you in Expand, and how to adjust your setup after.

2 min readChecked against the app on Sep 26Every game
Before you start
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You choose your simulation type in the Game Configuration panel, at the top of the left column on the Strategies page.

The configuration panel: the site, the stake, the type, the study depth, the number of players and the stack.

Precision or Expand

The panel gives you two cards. Pick one and it pre-fills the rest of your configuration.

  • Precision, tagged STUDY, is maximum quality on every board, with all heads-up postflop spots included and rake free.
  • Expand, tagged PLAY, is maximum coverage: lower resolution, but any room, stake, format and spot.

The panel chooser shows those two types. A third type, Preflop Only, is in the guide.

The full comparison, in the guide

Click the icon beside the panel's Game Configuration heading to open a side-by-side view of all three types.

Precision is the maximum-quality type, tagged MAX QUALITY and marked Nash Distance Certified. Solution Quality and Exploitability explains the quality indicator each solved flop carries. It covers heads-up postflop spots only. It solves the river in real time, which Real-Time River Solving covers in full. Precision also runs Aggregated Reports, the Boards tab that studies all 1755 flops at once.

Expand is the maximum-coverage type, tagged MAX COVERAGE. It covers multiway pots up to five players, plus cold 4-bet and squeeze spots postflop. The guide describes it as working from a strong initial approximation.

Preflop Only, tagged RAKE-MATCHED, gives you preflop ranges solved to match your rake and blind structure, for sites including PokerStars, CoinPoker and GGPoker.

Adjusting after you pick

Every field in the Game Configuration panel stays clickable, even after your spot is built. To change your setup:

  1. Click Precision or Expand to switch type.
  2. Click a Players count from 3-max to 6-max.
  3. Click a Stack depth of 10, 30, 50 or 100.

Each click applies immediately, with no separate step to open or confirm.

The stack is capped at 100 big blinds, the highest of the four options.

Which type to pick

  • Precision to study heads-up spots at the highest quality. It is where a built spot starts.
  • Expand to cover multiway, cold 4-bet or squeeze spots, or any room, stake and format. The guide describes a Trust Score that warns when that approximation is unreliable.
  • Preflop Only for preflop ranges matched to a site's rake and blind structure. Compare all three in the guide.

To see a Precision spot of your own, open this one and build the line you study.

A real spot to open

Where to go next

Questions

Which simulation type should I use?

Pick Precision to study heads-up spots at the highest quality: it pre-fills the rest of your configuration and solves rake free. Expand covers more shapes of spot (multiway pots, cold 4-bets and squeezes, or any room and format) at a lower resolution, with a Trust Score that warns when that approximation is unreliable. Preflop Only gives preflop ranges matched to your site's rake and blind structure. Simulation Types compares all three.

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