GTO WIZARD free version-how to!

Firstly I am not associated with the company in any way. This is my way of helping you.

when where who what why how--these are the questions that lead us to good answers.

when should you get GTO WIZARD--Now-- no need to wait until you have played x number of games or any other reason- raw beginner or regular player - online or live.

Where- there website is excellent and it is easy to get the free version no strings attached.

What--I use their App it is simple and powerful- but you can also use it in browser.

Why--no matter what level you are playing the preflop charts, MTT and Cash will improve your game very very quickly.

How--the tools in the free version are very valuable--you can look at charts with EV which means you can have a very strong idea of why 55 folds and 66 does not why QJs shoves all-in but KTs does not--MTT charts--Cash charts will show you why 65s is a better 3 bet call 4 bet than AQo is.

that is just 1 tool there are many more

I have decided to start this thread to share with you 1 step at a time how to use the free WIZ to super charge your skills
I will be posting each week on- the how to use it- and answering questions--please feel free to ask me any how questions you like.

I am however not a GTO pro nor a programmer this is for those of you who want to learn how to use this tool only.

We can learn and grow together

How to start--- CASH or MTT we start by looking at the charts and learning the bottom of the ranges. We do not need to see what AA KK QQ AK does in every spot. We do want to know what we can be doing and our V could be doing in each position at the bottom of playable hands -what is the cutoff line for hands.
example UTG open 100bb MTT T8s yes T7s no what does UTG do at lower stack levels? We can click thru 100-2bb and get charts for all.

Then we look at what we would do if we were facing a UTG open and does stack size change our action. We can do this for every seat.

Example UTG1 actually calls more hands vs UTG at 80 than 100 more at 60 more at 50 then boom less at 40 than at 100

That leads us to ask why this is happening? Knowing the why allows us to deviate from GTO ranges if the why is not happening in our game. This is the foundation you can exploit from.

Studying charts is always the first step to better understanding how to play poker effectively.

Any questions?

Not yet, but I'm sure I will have, right now I don't have a huge amount of time, but this thread could be the study incentive/inspiration I was needing.

Thanks so much for starting it. I'll try to dedicate at least some time each week to dive in

Maybe add some screenshots while you're at it?

How long will it take for me to see improvements in my game using the tool?

austral said:

How long will it take for me to see improvements in my game using the tool?

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depending on how solid your preflop ranges are it could be almost instant---If you play MTT there are very interesting bet size lines sub 40 bb that not everyone is using. The free version also allows you to run 1 hand per day post flop so you can check hands you played against what the GTO play would be--so you could research 7 hands a week to adjust post flop lines.

Tero said:

Maybe add some screenshots while you're at it?

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As I go along I will be using screen shots. As it is free with no commitment if people are interested, they can take the time to explore the basic interface themselves and then ask me questions if they have any.

Tero said:

Maybe add some screenshots while you're at it?

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I have done this in other posts will do more for anyone who has questions----https://www.casino.us/cardschat/tournament-hand-analysis-51/8-8-nl-he-mtt-gto-556677/post-7239933

As you can see here for ----free------ you can look at MTT solutions- 8 handed- ChipEV for all these stack sizes preflop.
You can have any seat be the open and then see what your reaction to that open can be. Free preflop charts that are interactive

In the study section main page you will see that the is a menu arrow next to strategy.

Each time you open the study page it opens to strategy you have to choose other options yourself




these are all your options for studying the range charts
Strategy + EV is very important to identify bottom of range for real life Villains.

here is a simple example
MTT 100bb deep UTG opens these hands in the strategy chart



When we change to strategy + EV we see this



The numbers indicate how much equity a solver gets when playing perfect poker post flop--which we cannot do.
notice the 0's
If you were just looking at charts you might assume it is fine to open small pairs but only 55 has +EV and even, then only 3bb per hundred played perfectly post flop OOP vs what will normally be multiple players in our games IP vs you.

This feature "+EV" is very effective for your opens but also for your calls and raises vs opens

Another great way to use strategy +EV in the WIZ is to look at EV call vs raise. Below we see the BTN chart vs a UTG open and we can look at hands and see if call is worse than raise. I chose AKs if you look in the lower right corner you will see we are losing 16bb per 100 to call vs raise- we can look at all hands and develop our own strategy for each hand based on these numbers and our table dynamics.

When you click the change btn this pop up happens and you can select stack sizes. You can also select HEADS-UP yes that is correct. Free HU charts for MTT--



Interactive charts 🤯---- preflop only --but do not to forget to use that +EV feature to adjust your range to real life.

If anyone wishes to learn how to use GTO WIZ effectively in your games just respond to this and we can discuss how to become more profitable by using a solid basis of poker EV

I usually used gto when I finished a tournament and I had a hand that I gave all in or called some all in, but nowadays I don't even use it anymore I memorized a lot of hand ranges

Hey @eetenor
I have a really basic question. I'm struggling a little bit with the bbs/100 thing. I thought these numbers in the bottom right were %'s of EV gained? So therefore I thought 0.10 equated to 1bb, rather than 10bbs? And in the example you posted, raising to 8 makes 3.04bbs/100, surely its not 30bbs per 100??

SpanRmonka said:

Hey @eetenor
I have a really basic question. I'm struggling a little bit with the bbs/100 thing. I thought these numbers in the bottom right were %'s of EV gained? So therefore I thought

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I will look deeper and try to clarify exactly what the .3 represents- I may have stated it poorly.

SpanRmonka said:

Hey @eetenor
I have a really basic question. I'm struggling a little bit with the bbs/100 thing. I thought these numbers in the bottom right were %'s of EV gained? So therefore I thought 0.10 equated to 1bb, rather than 10bbs? And in the example you posted, raising to 8 makes 3.04bbs/100, surely its not 30bbs per 100??

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Thank you for asking the question--I clarified the issue on the GTO WIZARD discord forum.. Yes that reading does mean 30bb per hundred based on 100 iterations of taking that action in that exact spot but as you pointed out you can change the EV to % of pot in the solver- you do this by using the space bar and shift or in the settings under other.

That is more in line with thinking about the hand individually and is recommended by users of the solver---it is a little more advanced than the quick EV comparison one can do with the bb/ 100 display. Either use is of course good to identify how much better 77 vs UTG raise is than 66 for example.

Thanks again for your question.
I hope you continue to participate

It is the holiday season so please forgive me for being slow in responding

I absolutely will do, and please don't even consider response time etc. Sometimes, I'm gonna be here with full intensity and other times, I may not be here for a week. So far, I've done some 'studying' but not with solvers, partly as I have found them difficult to access/understand.

I'm so grateful for this thread, and hopefully at a point of life where I actually have time to engage and make some progress in undertsanding them, and learning to use them better.

I'm going to have a play around tomoz and see what comes up

Thanks again, and hope you're enjoying the festive season

SpanRmonka said:

I absolutely will do, and please don't even consider response time etc. Sometimes, I'm gonna be here with full intensity and other times, I may not be here for a week. So far, I've done some 'studying' but not with solvers, partly as I have found them difficult to access/understand.

I'm so grateful for this thread, and hopefully at a point of life where I actually have time to engage and make some progress in undertsanding them, and learning to use them better.

I'm going to have a play around tomoz and see what comes up

Thanks again, and hope you're enjoying the festive season

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While clarifying your question I discovered that the EV displayed is based on "Table Equity" Which means that the solver is giving you EV based on further possible actions by players still live who have not yet acted.

They do not go into detail regarding Table Equity but it is good to know that the solver is giving you the best possible EV based on solver ranges.

Beyond the basics of using the preflop charts to memorize SOLVER actions we can also make adjustments for non-solver Villains.
The first thing to do is using the +EV feature eliminate any 0 EV hands the solver wants us to play. They are there for balance vs another solver

The chart below is MTT 40bb stacks--HJ opens- BTN flats- SB is us. We have AQoff ----who thought that we should do what solver does here prior to seeing the chart?
Who thinks it is a bad idea even if solver says do it?




As stated earlier we want to not play the 0 EV hands at all - we can also, based on our own skill level set a lower limit for other hands as well --You see AToff is only .11 EV and being dominated post flop is a very real possibility so we could also lose the At hand as well as some of the Ax low suited hands with less than .10 EV --Again post flop domination and OOP EQR would lower our return on these hands -we cannot play solver perfect post flop with floats and bluffs and perfect bet sizings.

In the above chart if we click on AQoff and enlarge it -it locks the right lower side deeper EV study



If you look at the right EV window you will see the EV difference between all the actions. We can use this to adjust for our own Villains--We may choose to raise here if we thought our V would only jam top of range no bluffs so that we could actually raise fold.