Improving your poker game hinges on identifying and patching up your weaknesses, often called “leaks.” The GTO Wizard Analyzer 2.0 is an advanced tool specifically designed to help you pinpoint and understand these leaks by analyzing your hand history. This guide will walk you through how to effectively use its features to enhance your play.
1.Upload Your Hands
The first step to uncovering your leaks is to upload your hand histories to GTO Wizard. Thanks to recent infrastructure updates, uploads are now significantly faster, meaning you can see results and analyzed hands within minutes. This speed allows you to start studying while the details of the hands are still fresh in your mind.
2.Navigate to the “Hands” Section
Once your hands are uploaded, head to the “Hands” section within the analyze tab. You’ll notice a brand new user interface (UI) designed for improved usability.
3.Customize Your Columns
The Analyzer 2.0 allows you to fully customize all your columns to display the most relevant information for your analysis. Simply click the “manage columns” button to add or remove categories. New categories like ‘blinds’ (showing the hand limit) and ‘game table’ (allowing filtering by game type like heads-up) help you organize specific information within the hands section.
4.Utilize Filters to Isolate Scenarios
The “Hands” section in Analyzer 2.0 boasts several new and crucial filters. These are vital for narrowing down your hand histories to specific situations where leaks are likely to occur:
- Date: Analyze hands played within a specific timeframe, such as the last three months.
- Status: Filter for “fully solved” hands to ensure proper analysis by the wizard.
- Hero Went Post-flop: Focus on hands that reached the post-flop stage.
- EV Loss per BB (Expected Value Loss per Big Blind): This is a key filter for identifying mistakes. You can set a range, for example, from five big blinds up to the maximum EV loss in your filtered hands, to concentrate on significant blunders. The system will automatically display the highest EV lost per BB for your current filtered hands.
- File Name/Nicknames: If you play on multiple sites, you can filter by specific file names or nicknames.
- Aggression Pre-flop: Filter based on whether you were the pre-flop raiser or caller.
- Relative Position: Analyze hands based on your in-position (IP) or out-of-position (OOP) status, or by specific positions like button, cutoff, hijack, small blind, big blind, or under the gun.
- Game Types: If you play various game types (e.g., heads-up, 6-max), these will appear under ‘game table’ for filtering.
- GTO Score Percentage: Filter for hands where you achieved a specific GTO score.
- Blind Levels: Filter by the stake levels you played, from 1/2 up to 5/10.
- Site: Filter hands from specific poker sites if you play on multiple platforms.
- GTO Result: This powerful filter directly helps in finding leaks. You can filter by GTO Wizard’s evaluation of your moves: “best move,” “correct move,” “inaccuracy,” or “blunder”. Focusing on “inaccuracy” and “blunder” will directly highlight areas for improvement.
- Pre-flop Action: Filter by specific pre-flop scenarios such as limp pots, ISO pots, single raise pots, three-bet pots, four-bet pots, five-bet pots, or squeeze pots, allowing you to pinpoint very specific situations.
- Pot Size: Filter for hands involving certain pot sizes, allowing you to focus on bigger pots where mistakes are more costly.
- Frequency Difference: A higher frequency difference indicates you are taking a low-frequency line more often than you should, which can reveal a leak.
5.Analyze Stats for Broader Leak Indication
After applying filters in the “Hands” section, navigate to the “Stats” page (located at the top left, next to the table). This section provides statistics for your currently filtered hands. The “Stats” page includes new features that allow you to filter even further to pinpoint the source of your mistakes:
- Street: Filter by pre-flop, flop, turn, or river to identify on which street you are making the most mistakes. For example, a high number of mistakes or blunders on the river indicates a need to review your river decisions.
- Pre-flop Action: Analyze mistakes within specific pre-flop scenarios. You might discover you play single-raise pots well but make more blunders in four-bet pots, highlighting a specific area for improvement.
- Position: Identify positions where you are making the most mistakes (e.g., small blind, big blind), which are often difficult due to wider ranges.
- Aggression Pre-flop: Determine if you make more mistakes as the pre-flop raiser or caller. For instance, more mistakes as the pre-flop caller, especially from the big blind, suggests a leak in your blind play when calling pre-flop.
These filters within the “Stats” section are invaluable tools for indicating where your leaks might be.
6.Combine Filters to Create Specific Leak Reports
To generate a detailed report on scenarios contributing to your mistakes, combine multiple filters. For example, you can create a filter set to investigate:
- Hands where “Hero went post flop” (Yes).
- Hands with an “EV loss” from 1 big blind up to the maximum.
- “Pot size” of 50 big blinds or more (to focus on costlier mistakes).
- Played in “Six Max” games (or your most common game type).
- “Pre-flop action” was a “single raise pot”.
- You were the “pre-flop caller”.
- You were in the “big blind” position.
- The “GTO result” was a “blunder” or “wrong move”.
This combination of filters will reveal very specific hands where you might have a leak, such as making a blunder in a large, single-raised pot as the pre-flop caller from the big blind. Analyzing these particular hands can expose recurring issues, like value betting too thinly for a large size on the river.
7.Save Your Reports
Once you’ve created a specific filter combination that identifies a leak, you can save it as a custom report. Go to the report section, click the dropdown menu to “manage that report,” and rename it (e.g., “My Leaks”). Saved reports allow you to easily revisit and track your progress on specific areas of your game.
By systematically using these features, you can conduct a deep dive into your play, identify patterns of mistakes, and ultimately uncover your biggest leaks to significantly improve your poker game.