4-Betting Kings Is Easy. What About the Rest of Your Range?
Non-all-in 4-bets and jams around 40 BB: position, complete ranges, frequencies and the evidence behind reads on opponents. Illustrated MTT ChipEV examples.
SHMiTO · 27.10.2026
Why My River Call Started Preflop
How a small-blind limp shaped my river call at the APT High Roller final table: preflop ranges, human reads and ICM pressure.
SHMiTO · 24.10.2026
One board, four strategies: why raising does not oblige you to bet
The same Q♣ J♣ 6♣ monotone flop, four different situations and very different betting frequencies. Why ranges and position matter more than an automatic c-bet.
SHMiTO · 23.10.2026
Want to Play Better Tournament Poker? Start Out of Position
Understand preflop: button versus blinds, 3-bets, squeezes and EV, with original GTO Wizard examples and practical adjustments.
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Poker hand analysis: street-by-street decisions, ranges and bet sizing, with my reads on the people at the table. A little GTO, a little human.
SHMiTO — Still Human, Mostly intuitive, Theoretically Optimal.
All articles: SHMiTO and Thoughts
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Why I call with eight-high but can fold top pair
Why eight-high can continue against a wider betting range: an 86o hand, a solver experiment and the human patterns behind the decision.
Why the turn range starts on the flop
Losing a 150-big-blind pot hurts. But this hand left me with a useful question: how much does a turn decision change if an opponent bets strong hands on the flop more often than the solver does?
Checking Back the Nuts to Win Almost His Entire Stack
I turn the nut straight. There are 13.4 big blinds in the pot and my opponent has almost 69 behind. Seems like a good time to build a pot, right? I check back.