Inside PokerSnowie's brain reveals the work of the Snowie AI Team. It explores first hand how the brain of PokerSnowie evolves and learns advanced strategic concepts, on its own.

PokerSnowie's ultimate aim is to produce the perfectly balanced game, find the ultimate un-exploitable equilibrium for all No Limit Hold'em configurations. Join us on this fascinating journey, which is just starting, into the future of poker.

The PokerSnowie Video Quiz series aims to answer the question: "what is the right play?" It is a set of poker coaching videos presented by French professional poker player Sharp. In each video, Sharp sets up an interesting hand in the "Scenarios" tool of PokerSnowie and explains how to analyse the situation and learn from PokerSnowie's advice, based on the Game Theory Optimal model.

PokerSnowie Video Quiz: Bluff catching on the river

Jan 30, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  8

Bluff catching on the river

How wide should the defending range be from the big blind? When to be sticky post flop, when to give up and when to check raise? Which key factors should be taken into account when bluff catching?

In today's PokerSnowie Video Quiz the hero defended his BB with some suited connectors. After bluff catching on the flop and on the turn with a pair, he is facing a third barrel on the river. Should he rather:

- Fold, because the board texture is too bad for his range?

Announcing new PokerCoach features

Jan 29, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  12
Tomorrow Thursday 30th January we are releasing a new version of PokerCoach. PokerCoach will not be accessible for a few hours, from 9:00 AM CET onwards. It should be back up by 12:00 CET.
 
What will you get in this new version of PokerCoach? 

New Challenge PokerSnowie features

How to learn with PokerSnowie

Jan 28, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  3

This week's article aims to start answering a question you have asked us often - what is the best way to learn with PokerSnowie and PokerCoach?.

PokerSnowie's learning algorithms are based on the Game Theory Optimal framework. Studying game theory is certainly one of the best way to improve in poker and here are three areas in which we can progress a lot with the help of PokerSnowie. 
 
Evaluating our hand’s equity against our opponent’s range 
 

Postflop strategy - PokerSnowie learns to float

Jan 24, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  1
This article will present quite an advanced strategic Poker concept called 'floating'.
PokerSnowie learns to float
First, let's have a look at an example hand of how PokerSnowie plays:
 
$5/$10, 100 bb, heads-up
PokerSnowie is dealt Tc 9c
 
Preflop:
PokerSnowie sits on the button and opens to $30
Opponent raises to $90
PokerSnowie calls
 

Postflop - Semi-bluffs and Pot Control

Jan 13, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  2
So far we have looked at PokerSnowie's preflop tables and have examined several parts of its preflop strategy. This article is about constructing proper ranges postflop (flop + turn).
 
We'll look at a very general and easy concept, one that many players don't seem to know, causing them to misplay their hands regularly.
 
Here is an example hand: $5/$10, 4 players with 100 BB. The cutoff player raises to $20, it gets folded to the big blind player who then calls. The flop is 6c 9d Kh. The big blind player checks and the cutoff player makes a continuation bet of half the pot, $22.50.
 
Semi bluff and pot control

PokerSnowie Video quiz: Top pair top kicker facing a bet on the river

Jan 08, 2014  |  Posted by PokerSnowie  |  2

Top pair top kicker facig a raise on the river

From the cut off, you defended pre flop with AQ against a raise from under the gun. You flopped top pair on AT8 two tones and you called the continuation bet. The turn brought a possible flush with a 4 and was checked. A king landed on the river, and now your opponent is betting pot. What shall you do with top pair top kicker in that situation? Four options: raise all in for value, call, fold or raise all in as a bluff?

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