GTO Wizard primer + first ranges
Subscription screen. Six tier options. The cheapest tier that gives meaningful preflop and postflop access is the one to pick — the higher tiers add solver-side features you do not need until Phase 2. The first hour of GTO Wizard time is spent learning the interface, not learning poker. Resist the urge to memorize. The interface is a tool; you are training your eye.
Chapter focus Set up GTO Wizard, navigate the preflop tab, and export your first hero range as a study artifact.
Load-bearing idea
GTO Wizard is a precomputed solver-tree browser. Someone solved millions of preflop and postflop spots; the interface is a way to query the result. Your job in Phase 1 is to build mental models of why the solver does what it does at frequent decision nodes. Pure memorization at the chart level is the wrong move because the population you face does not play like the solver, so you will deviate. Deviation only earns EV when it’s grounded in a real read.
Retrieval prompts
- What is the difference between the “preflop” tab and the “postflop” tab in GTO Wizard?
- What does “frequency” mean when a hand shows up in two colors in a range chart?
- How do you export a range to PNG or to a hand-history-importable format?
- Where does GTO Wizard expose EV-per-action for a given decision node?
Re-derivation log
Pick the BTN open range at 100bb. Identify three hands at the boundary (e.g. KTo, 64s, A4o). For each, note the indicated frequency and the EV of opening vs folding. Then articulate, in one sentence per hand, why the EV is what it is. Save the chart as a PNG into ~/poker-curriculum/solver-runs/week01/.