TheoryWhy there are 1,326 starting combos but only 169 hands, where 4 suited and 12 offsuit come from, and the notation players use: AKs, AKo, AhKs, QQ+.
15 SEP 2026
UpdateA customer said Practice deals easy hands. He was right. Here is the selector we built, the weighting behind Easy, Balanced and Hard, and what it does on four real spots.
12 SEP 2026
UpdateOne preflop spot solved on 184 flops at once: the table, the tree walk, filters, lenses, Simplify, turn runouts and report diffs.
10 SEP 2026
UpdateEvery player can tell you their worst hand of the year. Nobody can tell you what it cost them – an actual number. That is why Practice exists: you play the whole hand against solver strategy, and it tells you the price of every decision.
10 SEP 2026
TheoryHow to run a study routine you will actually keep: mark hands while you play, read the session where the EV went, let the scheduler bring back the spots you keep failing, and set a stopping rule before you sit. With what a blunder measurably costs.
17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026Updated
TheoryStack-to-pot ratio explained with worked examples from four solved flop reports, and what small, medium, large and overbet sizes actually buy. The same 25 flops solved at 18bb and at 97.5bb behind, with the break-even maths for every size.
17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026Updated
TheoryHow to read a flop: high card, pairing, connectedness and suits. What range advantage and nut advantage actually mean, counted combo by combo from the preflop charts, and how the solver’s flop strategy changes from board to board.
17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026Updated
How to Maximize Your Vegas Poker Schedule If you have ever tried to plan a Vegas summer from a stack of venue PDFs, you know the pain. WSOP drops a 100-page structure sheet. Wynn posts a flyer. The Orleans buries late reg in a spreadsheet. You end up with twelve browser tabs and still miss […]
17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026UpdatedFree Knowledge
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A customer said Practice deals easy hands. He was right. Here is the selector we built, the weighting behind Easy, Balanced and Hard, and what it does on four real spots.
2026.910 Sep 2026Aggregated Reports: Stop studying one flop at a timeOne preflop spot solved on 184 flops at once: the table, the tree walk, filters, lenses, Simplify, turn runouts and report diffs.
2026.910 Sep 2026Practice: Know what your mistakes actually costEvery player can tell you their worst hand of the year. Nobody can tell you what it cost them – an actual number. That is why Practice exists: you play the whole hand against solver strategy, and it tells you the price of every decision.
2026.921 Mar 2026From Open Raise to River – The Biggest Update in Poker Academy’s HistoryHey! 🙂 A few years ago, after two months of sitting at my desk for fifteen-plus hours a day, I shipped the first version of Preflop Academy. I remember that post – I wrote that I’d managed to combine my two biggest passions: poker and programming. That nobody had built anything like this at this level. And that the app would keep evolving.
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