Every Precision flop carries a quality indicator: a small coloured info icon beside the board cards. It tells you how close the solution is to a perfect one, so you know how much weight to put on what you are reading.
A Precision flop in the game configuration: the board with its quality indicator at the left of the cards, and the action each player takes on this flop.
Where the indicator appears
The indicator is specific to one place: the Precision simulation type, on the Flop, once all three board cards are set. It does not appear in Expand, and it does not appear on the turn or the river inside Strategies.
The Trainer shows the same three levels, on the same scale, when a real-time solve finishes. That is why a spot you trained and a spot you are studying use the same words for quality.
What the three colours mean
Hover the icon and a legend opens with all three:
- Green, labelled Low: high quality solution.
- Amber, labelled Medium: reasonable solution.
- Red, labelled High: use with caution.
The label describes exploitability, so Low is the good one. Low exploitability means the solution is hard to beat, so lower is always better.
The number behind the colour
Exploitability measures how much a perfect opponent could gain against a strategy, expressed as a percentage of the pot. A perfectly solved spot would be zero. A solution at 0.4 gives up four tenths of one percent of the pot to an opponent who plays the maximally exploitative counter-strategy.
In the Trainer, the exact number is shown next to the street once training completes. In Strategies the number drives the colour rather than being printed beside it.
The cutoffs move with the spot
There is no single scale. A single-raised pot at a 100 big blind stack is judged on a looser scale than everything else, because those spots are solved against a larger tree.
Single-raised pots at 100 big blinds:
- Green below 1
- Amber from 1 up to 2
- Red at 2 or above
Every other spot, which includes 3-bet pots, squeezes, limped pots, and any stack depth other than 100:
- Green below 0.45
- Amber from 0.45 up to 1
- Red at 1 or above
What to do with a red flop
Red means the solve is further from equilibrium than usual, so treat the fine detail with care: the broad shape of the strategy is still informative, while a small frequency difference between two similar hands may not be.
To read the quality indicator on a spot of your own, open this one and step to the flop.
A real spot to open
Where to go next
- Simulation Types explains why Precision is the maximum-quality type and what Expand trades away for coverage.
- Real-Time River Solving covers the on-demand river solve in Precision.
- Aggregated Reports studies every flop at once, in the same Precision setup.