ART/GTO
Studying solutions

Strategy browser

When a solve finishes, or when you open a saved solution file, the center of the Solver screen becomes the strategy browser. This is where you study the result: which hands bet, which hands check, how often, and what each choice is worth.

This page covers the hand grid, the action table, moving through the game tree, and the pinned-cell inspector.

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full Solver screen with a finished solve loaded, strategy browser in the center

The two workspace tabs

Above the browser there are two pill buttons:

TabWhat it shows
StrategyThe solution tree with action nodes. This is the main study view.
GameTreeThe full decision tree of the spot. Useful to see the whole structure at once. You will use it less often.

Most of your time will be in Strategy.

The hand grid

The grid shows every hand in the acting player's range at the current decision point. Each cell is one hand. Inside each cell, colored bars show what the solver does with that hand.

What the bars mean depends on the display mode. The four-button pill group at the bottom center switches between modes:

ModeWhat the cells show
StrategyAction frequency bars. The width of each colored bar is how often the hand takes that action.
EVAn expected value bar. Higher value, longer bar. See EVs and equity for what the numbers mean.
EquityAn equity bar — the hand's share of the pot if there were no more betting.
Played %How often the hand is played here, as a percentage bar.
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hand grid in Strategy mode with mixed bet/check frequencies
Tip
Start in Strategy mode to see the shape of the solution, then switch to EV to understand why. A hand that mixes two actions usually has almost the same EV for both — that is what mixing means.

The action table

Next to the grid, the action table lists every action available at the current node, one row per action. The columns, left to right:

ColumnMeaning
ActionThe bet, raise, check, or call that leads to this node.
WeightHow much of the range takes this action, shown as a weight.
Play %The same frequency, shown as a percentage.
EQThe equity of the combos that pass through this action.
EVThe expected value of the action.

Numbers are right-aligned in a monospace font so columns line up. Click a column header to sort by that column. Sorting by EV is a fast way to find the highest-value action; sorting by Play % shows you the main line first.

You move through the game tree by clicking.

  • Click an action row to descend into that action's subtree. The grid and table update to the next decision point.
  • The breadcrumb path above the browser shows where you are in the tree, action by action.
  • The hero card at the top of the center panel shows the current node's pot, stacks, and available actions, so you always know the state of the hand.
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breadcrumb path after descending two actions deep, hero card visible
Note
The board is baked into a loaded solution. You cannot change the flop of a solution you are viewing. To study a different board, click ✚ New spot in the top bar (Ctrl+N) and run a fresh solve.

The GameTree tab

The GameTree tab shows the full decision tree of the spot instead of one node at a time. It is the quickest way to check the overall structure — which bet sizes exist on each street, and where the tree branches. For studying actual frequencies and values, the Strategy tab is better.

Pinned-cell inspector

The grid shows hands. The inspector shows combos — the individual card combinations inside a hand.

Click a cell in the grid to pin it. The inspector panel on the right then shows the full detail for that cell at this node: the complete strategy, EV, equity, and the list of combos. Before you pin anything, the panel shows an empty state with hover hints.

A two-button pill group on the right side switches the inspector view:

ViewWhat it shows
NumbersA numeric table with one row per combo. Columns include CARDS, WT, PLAY%, and EQ.
StrategyFull-width bar charts showing the frequency distribution per action.
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inspector panel with a pinned cell, Numbers view showing per-combo rows
Tip
Pin a cell when a hand's strategy surprises you. Often the answer is suit-specific: one combo blocks the opponent's calls or has a backdoor flush draw, so it bets while the others check. The Numbers view makes these differences visible.
Note
If the spot was solved with the Low-memory fallback, the status line shows river-bucketed @ N. On such solutions, similar-strength river hands share one strategy per bucket, so river detail is reduced. Flop and turn keep full per-hand detail, and showdown results are exact. The fallback only engages when the spot could not solve at all otherwise. See Saving and opening solutions for how solutions are stored.

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