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Real-time assistance, solvers and opponent modelling, written by the team that builds one. New posts weekly. The long-form material lives in the guides.
- Is poker RTA detectable? How sites catch it in 2026
How online poker sites detect real-time assistance in 2026: timing analysis, statistical fingerprinting against the equilibrium, process and screen-capture scans, device and network signals, and reports from other players.
4 October 2026 · 7 min read - GTO vs exploitative poker: when to leave the equilibrium, and by how much
GTO and exploitative play are not rivals: the equilibrium is the floor and the exploit is the profit.
4 October 2026 · 8 min read - AI in poker: what RTA, bots and solvers actually do, and what they do not
Solvers, bots and real-time assistance are three different things that get one label, AI.
4 October 2026 · 7 min read - Playing GTO with real-time assistance: where the edge is, and where it is not
What real-time GTO advice actually gives a player: a floor under every decision, frequencies in spots nobody memorises, bet sizing by the tree.
4 October 2026 · 7 min read - The poker RTA glossary: 40 terms, each in a sentence or two
Every term you meet around real-time assistance, solvers and opponent modelling, defined in a sentence or two: RTA, HUD, bot, GTO, equilibrium, exploitability, CFR, range, node, frequency, pot odds, alpha, MDF, SPR, blockers, posterior, archetype, pixel reader, OCR, glyph, and more..
4 October 2026 · 6 min read - Multiway pots: why no solver covers them, and what to do instead
Why every poker solver and every RTA is two-player, what happens to the game tree with a third player, the rules of thumb that hold up in multiway pots (check more, bet smaller, bluff less, value is relative to the field), and how a rules engine stands in where the solver stops..
4 October 2026 · 6 min read - Bet sizing in solver trees: what 33%, 75% and 125% mean for your line
Why solvers use a handful of bet sizes, what each size is for (a third of the pot for range bets, three quarters for polarised bets, overbets for nut advantage), how a tool maps a real bet to its tree, and what to do when an opponent's size is not in it..
4 October 2026 · 6 min read - Poker HUD for GGPoker in 2026: what works, what doesn't, and why
Why PokerTracker and Hold'em Manager do not run on GGPoker, Natural8 and ClubGG, what PokerCraft gives you instead, which third-party approaches exist (hand-history converters, pixel readers), what the network's terms say about each, and what a player can realistically have on a GG table today..
4 October 2026 · 6 min read - GTO Wizard vs an RTA: what the study tool and the live tool each do
GTO Wizard is a study tool; an RTA is a live tool.
4 October 2026 · 6 min read - RTA for home games on PokerNow: a two-minute setup, and what you get
How to run real-time assistance in a PokerNow home game where the host allows it: share the table window from Chrome, pick PokerNow, start, and what the coach shows preflop to river.
4 October 2026 · 5 min read - How to review a session with hand history and player profiles
A review method for players using a real-time assistant: find the hands where you deviated, sort them into right, wrong and lucky, read the opponent's profile at the time of the decision, update your notes, and carry three spots into study.
4 October 2026 · 6 min read
GTO MAX AI: the RTA that knows the player.
GTO line, exploit line and the reason, live, on up to four tables, in Chrome. GGPoker, Natural8, ClubGG, PokerNow, and PokerStars in beta. Try it for 30 minutes on Telegram.
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