From odds to solver
What a solver computes, how its output rests on the math in this academy, and how to read it without being fooled.
- 6 min1What a solver is, and what it is not
An equilibrium is a different kind of answer from an equity. Here is the difference, and why it matters before you look at one.
- 6 min2The two break-even numbers
Every bet size creates a threshold for the caller and one for the bettor. Both are pot odds, and solvers live between them.
- 7 min3Why solvers bluff: indifference
The value-to-bluff ratio on the river is the caller's pot odds in disguise, and combinatorics decides which hands fill it.
- 7 min4Reading solver output with the math you have
The grid, the EV view and the range explorer are our starting-hand matrix, our expected value and our range breakdown, wearing different clothes.
- 6 min5Where the math stops and the model starts
A solver is exactly right about the game you gave it. Knowing which parts are assumptions is what lets you deviate on purpose.