Keeping poker simple - runout clustering
Our friends at PokerScientist make planning your turn and river strategies easier by recognising the good and bad cards for your range.
A lot of players think GTO and solver technology makes poker more complicated, but that is not the case. While it is perhaps harder to get your head around at first, GTO has the potential to make poker much more simple.
You'll never be able to replicate GTO strategies perfectly but with enough study you will develop heuristics on how to play and make your strategy easier, not harder.
This new video from Samy89 at PokerScientist shows a feature of his software that does just that - runout clustering. This feature shows you all the possible turn and river cards for a spot, then divides them by the type of strategy you should adopt. The good cards for your range might lead to a big bet, the bad cards for your range might be checks.
You will never be able to remember the strategy for each individual card, but this feature will help you develop pattern recognition for understanding which cards are good and bad for you, and the typical strategies for each.
Poker Scientist in a nutshell
The team behind the development of Poker Scientist includes our very own coach Samy89 who's been at the forefront of the education department in our German community, helping our members improve their game through innovative learning methods.
In a nutshell, Poker Scientist is offering users the following features:
- Improve your understanding of the principles of GTO with a state-of-the-art analysis tool
- Untangle the complexity of GTO through innovative features like Clustering and Simplification
- Hone your GTO skills in an interactive training mode against the Poker Scientist GTO bot
10% discount for PokerStrategists
As a member of PokerStrategy.com, you're getting a discount of 10% when buying the innovative GTO solver. Simply use our bonus code PokerStrategy and receive the discount and an upgrade to gold status at PokerStrategy.com.
When buying Poker Scientist, you can choose between three different offers:
| Gameplan | Bundle | Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| âœ”ï¸ Access to Gameplan | âœ”ï¸ Access to Gameplan | ⌠Access to Gameplan |
| ⌠Access to Trainer | âœ”ï¸ Access to Trainer | âœ”ï¸ Access to Trainer |
| ⌠Link between Gameplan & Trainer | âœ”ï¸ Link between Gameplan & Trainer | ⌠Link between Gameplan & Trainer |
| âœ”ï¸ All possible heads-up spots | âœ”ï¸ All features of Gameplan and Trainer | âœ”ï¸ All possible heads-up spots |
| âœ”ï¸ Instant GTO solutions | âœ”ï¸ Result tracking |
Furthermore, you can choose between 1-month, 3-months or 12-months subscriptions that come at a reduced price the longer the timeframe. In all cases, the 10% PokerStrategy.com discount is applied on top of that when using our bonus code PokerStrategy in the checkout process.
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What is Poker Scientist?
Poker Scientist helps you understand the principles of poker as efficiently as possible.
The browser-based software gives you instant access to a GTO gameplan, containing billions of strategies for every relevant heads-up scenario. The gameplan was developed with simplification in mind, with Clustering offering a whole new way of understanding and internalising new strategies.
Poker Scientist's gameplan is calculated using computers that are several orders of magnitude more powerful than any desktop PC. The highly accurate solutions use the optimal number of bet and raise sizings. Solutions with this accuracy are not achievable for the average solver user on their home PCs.
Through two simplifications in the form of Line Elimination and Runout Clustering, Poker Scientist managed to overcome one of the major problems other solver tools have when it comes to learning and developing your own game efficiently.
Altogether, Poker Scientist offers you a GTO game plan with an innovative approach that's going take your poker game to a whole new level.
Check out all Poker Scientist features on our dedicated software page
Made Hand Distribution
Understanding what kind of hands you should hold in certain situations is an essential skill to improve your own game. The Made Hand Distribution feature in Poker Scientist will help you acquire and hone this skill.
It contains 18 different hand categories, with possible categories for example being top pairs, flushes or straight draws, as well as two different distributions:
- How often a hand group goes into a specific action
- How likely it is to have a specific hand type in your current range
Check out the following YouTube video by Poker Scientist developer Samy89 to learn more about the feature and how it can help you to improve your game:
GTO Bot with human tendencies
Playing against a balanced GTO bot is a great way to learn, but there's also a lot to learn by training against an opponent with human tendencies. Poker Scientist has developed two opponents with human-like play styles, with one opponent having a tight gameplan, the other an aggressive gameplan.
How does it work?
Both opponents still use a GTO strategy as the foundation for their gameplan. The logic implemented for the tight/weak play styles follows observation of human behavior: a real player increases the tightness of his strategy in more complex situations.
For the tight opponent, the gap between their strategy and the balanced GTO strategy is larger on the river than on the flop, leading to some new behaviors, like a stronger checking range, reduced bluff frequency/value heavy ranges etc. The aggressive opponent does the opposite, making heavy use of blockers to apply pressure, bringing you into tough spots very often.
To see how well you perform against the different opponent types, you can now choose these specific styles in training mode, allowing your to adjust your general game plan and improve your approach against them.
Get 10% off Poker Scientist with the discount code "PokerStrategy"
Get 10% off Poker Scientist with the discount code "PokerStrategy"
