Paweł Brzeski

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Paweł Brzeski

Co-founder, Poker Academy

Poker Player. Creator. Builder. WSOPC ring winner. Creator of Poker Academy. I write about strategic thinking under uncertainty and the emotional side of this beautiful game for those who want to feel, think better, play better, and build something meaningful.

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How to Maximize Your Vegas Poker Schedule

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. 2026Updated
MindsetTheory

Risk / (risk + reward): the breakeven formula behind every bluff, call and raise

Breakeven = risk ÷ (risk + reward). How often a bluff, a call, a bluff-raise and a call against a raise have to work, why a raise costs more than a bet, and where the app shows the same price: POT ODDS on the table and EV on every action.

17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026Updated
Live Game

BB Ante Explained: Why Your Preflop Sims Are Costing You Money

The big blind ante is always 1bb, whatever the table size, and a classic ante is 0.125bb a head. What that extra dead money does to preflop ranges, measured on two solver runs of the same 9-handed table that differ only in the ante, plus the short-stack and big-stack spots from the big blind ante final tables.

17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2026Updated
Theory

What is a 3-bet in poker: real 3-bet ranges for cash and tournaments

What a 3-bet is, why it’s called that, and what solver 3-bet ranges look like: linear on the cash button at 100bb, polarised at 40bb in tournaments, plus squeezes, sizing and playing the pot after the 3-bet.

17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2025Updated
Theory

GTO vs exploitative poker: MDF, node locking and when to deviate

GTO is the baseline you can’t be exploited from; exploitative play is the deviation that wins more against a real leak. MDF by bet size, a solver node where GTO folds more than MDF, and what the solver does against a locked calling station.

17 SEP 2026 · pub. 2025Updated