Replay a hand and investigate its strategy

Open a replay#

Click the replay icon in the first column of Hands, right-click a hand and choose replay, or open replay from its detail panel. List entry points retain the source list's hand order for previous/next navigation. Check the hand number, game type, players and stacks.

Step through the action#

Use previous/next controls or click the action timeline. With keyboard focus in replay, use:

Unreported hole cards remain unknown. Undealt streets are not added as actual actions. Deviations depend on the selected reference; the final outcome alone does not establish decision quality.

Interpret reference strategies#

Check the ChipEV / ICM model and the range source first. ICM is offered for tournament hands with more than two players; cash and two-player tables use ChipEV. In ICM, check the tournament phase and use automatic reference selection or choose an appropriate scenario manually. Downloading, missing references, a borrowed larger-table reference, reference-only results and zero frequency mean different things.

Eligible postflop spots are solved automatically. By default, solver stacks behind are capped at 30BB while replay retains the actual stacks. For an originally two-player table with Hero in a heads-up flop, the displayed checkbox can disable that cap. Read notices about omitted players or added range hands: some multiway pots are simplified to Hero and one opponent rather than solved as full multiway games.

Non-Hold'em hands, no flop, Hero absent postflop, preflop all-ins, unsupported multiway action or missing ranges can prevent a postflop solution. Follow the displayed reason. Reference strategies depend on model inputs and do not reveal actual opponent ranges.

Study this hand requires Hold'em and Hero's postflop involvement. Choose an opponent position if prompted. It opens Study with a separate setup; recheck ranges, pot and stacks on arrival.

Launch a preflop solve#

Choose Solve this preflop exactly to construct a preflop setup from the starting stacks, blinds and antes. This requires a 2–9-player Hold'em hand with identifiable seat order; incomplete or invalid table information can prevent construction.

Check ChipEV/ICM, the action tree and bounties after opening. GG bounty events are carried over as PKO; other sources also use the title and any recorded bounties for detection. Verify that interpretation. Supply missing bounty amounts before solving, and check the effect of excluding off-table stacks when bounties are used.

Final-table prizes can be entered or pasted in replay. They apply only to this replay visit and are not persisted; enter them again after reopening. Preserve important results before replacing another solve. Continue with the preflop solver guide.

Opening a hand with the list replay icon also updates its review status, separately from strategy grading.

Preflop references can change with Hero’s decision and effective stack. Check the displayed library and notices as you step through the hand. Nearby-stack, simplified-line or near-all-in references support study; some nodes may remain ungraded. Do not apply one node’s reference range to the whole hand.