AAPoker is now fully supported: a real-time GTO coach for AAPoker tables, in the browser

1. What an AAPoker RTA has to read

AAPoker is a club app first, so its table is a phone screen stretched tall rather than the wide felt every desktop client draws. The felt is red, 1.3 times taller than it is wide, and everything on it sits at a fixed place: six seats, with the hero at the bottom left of centre, a dark plate under each avatar with the name in white over the stack in gold, two light grey card backs beside the avatar while the player holds cards, and a bet pill between each seat and the middle. The pot is a dark pill above the board with a chip icon and the amount, the stakes are printed under the board, and your own two cards are fanned to the right of your avatar.

Two things about that layout matter for the advice you get. First, every amount on an AAPoker table is already in big blinds: the stacks read 181.9 BB, the raise pill reads 4 BB, the pot reads 6.2 BB. There is no chips view to convert and no blinds to detect from a title bar, which removes a whole class of errors other rooms have. Second, the pot pill holds the collected pot alone. The blinds and raises in front of the players are not in it, and before the flop it is not drawn at all. A reader that assumed the GGPoker rule, where the pot already includes the live bets, would quote you half the real price to call on every flop. The AAPoker reader adds the bets in front to the pill, and is tested on that.

The bet pills carry their meaning in their colour, which the reader uses as well as the number. A cyan pill is a posted blind, orange is a raise, gold is a bet, green is a check and grey is a fold, each with the word printed in Korean beside the amount. The dealer is a small white disc with a D near the dealer's seat. The player on the clock has a thin timer bar under their plate that runs from green to red, and when it is your turn the big Fold, Call and Raise buttons at the bottom of the felt light up. All of it is read from the pixels of the shared window on your device, with no AI call in the loop.

2. Built from a player's own frames

Like every reader in GTO MAX AI, the AAPoker reader was built from real tables, not a mock-up. A trial player recorded a session with the app's trainer, the window at 1024 pixels wide, and that recording became the reference set: a six-handed preflop with a 4 BB raise and both blinds posted, the hero's own 3 BB raise with a pocket pair, a flop with the hero on the clock and a 15.4 BB raise to face, a window scrolled so that the top of the felt and half the pot pill are cut off, a heads-up turn with the opponent's timer running, a river showdown, a fresh heads-up deal, and a hand just won with the pair shown and the win amount floating over it. Each frame has a truth table of what is on it, and the reader has to match every row on every frame before a change ships. The CoinPoker reader was built the same way a week earlier.

Three AAPoker details took a specific rule each. When you scroll the app window, the top of the felt leaves the screen, and with it the pot pill and the top seat. The felt's height is known from its width, so the reader places every seat from the felt's bottom edge instead and keeps reading the plates that are still visible; the half pot pill still reads. When you are dealt a made hand, a pocket pair from the start or two pair on the flop, the app tints your cards pale gold, which fools a card reader trained on white cards. The AAPoker card reader looks through the tint at the rank and the big centre pip. And the app prints the top of a stack with its decimal point small enough that a sharpening pass sometimes loses it, so 70.1 BB came out as 701 until the reader learned to cross-check the plain read against the sharpened one and keep the point.

3. Chinese and Korean screen names

AAPoker clubs are often Chinese or Korean, and the screen names at your table will be too. This matters because the exploit line is built on a profile that is kept by screen name: every hand you play against a player is added to their profile, and the next time you sit with them they are known. So the names have to be read correctly and the same way every time.

Here is what the reader does today, honestly. Latin names and Chinese names are read on your device by the on-device text model, which handles Chinese script well, so a player with a Chinese name is profiled under that name from the first hand. Korean names are not read on the device: the text model GTO MAX AI ships does not have Hangul. A Korean player's seat is called by its seat number until the AI model, which is asked once for a seat it cannot name, reads the name and stores it. From then on it is matched on the device by its picture, so a regular with a Korean name is still recognised across sessions, with a slightly slower first hand. If that first hand matters to you, open the seat in the player log and type the name once; your spelling wins over the model's.

4. What you get at the table

The same two lines every GTO MAX AI user gets on every room. The GTO line is the solver's answer for the spot: the frequencies and the sizes, from a precomputed flop library and live turn and river solves. The exploit line is what changes against this opponent: their type, their stats, their showdown tendencies and your own notes, turned into an adjustment with its reason. On a club app full of recreational players that second line earns most of its keep, because the equilibrium play is rarely the most profitable one against a player who has limped five hands in a row.

• Your cards, the board, stacks, bets, pot and button read on your device; the AI is asked only for a card picture it has never seen or a name it cannot read.
• Everything in big blinds, as the app prints it, with the pot and the price to call built from the collected pot plus the bets in front.
• Up to four AAPoker windows at once, each in its own card, with focus following the action.
• Nothing installed and nothing reading the AAPoker client: you share the window in Chrome, the app reads the video.

How that fits together, and how the vision capture keeps the reads on your device, is covered in the RTA poker guide.

5. Before your first session: window size

One practical point. AAPoker is a phone app on a desktop, and its window can be shrunk to a size at which the stack text is a few pixels tall. The reader was built from a window 1024 pixels wide, where the stack print is tall enough to keep its decimal point. Shrink it far below that and the gold print loses its point, the small blind pill becomes a smudge, and you will see the app ask the AI for more than it should. Keep the window close to that size, and run two windows side by side on a large screen rather than four in a grid on a laptop. If the window is scrolled, that is fine; if it is tiny, it is not.

One other setting. Pick AAPoker from the site list rather than leaving detection to the app for the first session, so the reader is the AAPoker one from the first frame.

6. What to expect in the first weeks

A new reader is at its best after a few hundred hands from a few different clubs, because every skin, table size and edge case shows up in play rather than in a lab. The reference recording is one club at one window size, and there are AAPoker clubs that run different felts and card backs. If you see a read that is off, press the flag button in the app. It sends the last three minutes of your table, every frame and what the reader made of it, straight to us, and that frame becomes a test before the next release. The CoinPoker reader went from its first version to a dependable one on exactly those flags in a week, and the PokerNow reader before it. Each room keeps its own reader, its own rules and its own tests, so a fix for AAPoker never moves another room's read, and a fix for another room never reaches AAPoker.

7. Where to use it

The same line we write on every page applies here. GTO MAX AI is a coaching and study tool. Use it where real-time assistance is allowed: study sessions, home games, private clubs that permit it, play money. Many club apps and most online sites forbid real-time assistance in their terms, and the terms you accept in the app say so. What we build is the best read of the table and the best advice for the spot; where you run it is your call and your responsibility. If you want the detail on how rooms look for RTA, read is poker RTA detectable first.

8. Try it on your AAPoker table

Open app.gtomax.ai in Chrome, start the free 30-minute trial, pick AAPoker from the site list, share the AAPoker window, and press Start. Your first hand should show your cards, the pot and the price to call within a second of the deal, and the GTO line and exploit line as soon as it is your turn. If it does not, flag it, and it will next week.

Already using GTO MAX AI on another room? Nothing changes for you: AAPoker is a new entry in the site list with its own reader behind it. See the RTA poker guide for how the readers and the advice fit together, or all guides for the longer reads.

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Longer reads: the RTA poker guide and all guides.