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Tab 01 · Weekly Data Drop

Biggest Blunders of the Week

DA pipeline mines partner site data — WPT Global, WPT Gold, future partners — and surfaces the single highest-bb/100 leak the player base is making this week. Light coaching, sharp data, no preachy CTAs.

The Weekly Leak · Issue 47

WPT Global players are bleeding 12 bb/100 with one habit

Two million hands across 0.05/0.10 NL through 1/2 NL all point to the same offender: open-limping or 3-bet-calling offsuit Ax from early and middle position.

QuintAce Data Lab 4 min read Cash · Micro–Low

Last week the network ran 2.4M hands. Across every population sample we pulled, one decision class loses more than any other: weak offsuit aces (A9o down to A2o) played from UTG, MP, and LJ. The hand class is everywhere — and it's costing the table money in two distinct ways.

Net loss in spot
−12.4
bb/100 · 8-max NL
Player base affected
67%
opened A9o–A2o >1× from EP/MP
Solver-correct freq
11%
only A5s–A2s mixed at LJ

Why it leaks so hard

Offsuit Ax is the dictionary definition of a domination magnet. When you open A8o from MP and get called by the BTN, you're either flipping versus a pocket pair or you're crushed by AT–AK. The 30%-equity outcomes win you 1 pot; the 22%-equity outcomes lose you 3.

The leak compounds postflop. With no kicker advantage and no straight/flush draws, hands that connect the ace are top-pair-no-kicker — a hand class the population over-defends on big boards. Net result: small wins, large losses, and a steady -12 bb/100 drag.

This week's top 5 population leaks · ranked by bb/100
01 A9o–A2o opened from EP/MP
−12.4
02 SB cold-call vs BTN open
−9.1
03 Over-c-betting dry low boards OOP
−7.2
04 Calling 3-bets with KQo IP
−5.3
05 Limp-calling baby pairs OOP
−3.8

The fix, in one line

QuintAce Tip
From UTG–LJ, fold every offsuit ace below ATo. Suited Ax (A5s–A2s) is fine because it can flop wheels and flushes. The kicker is the whole story — if you don't have one, you don't have a hand.

Next week we re-run the pipeline against WPT Gold's 2.5 BB ante structure — early data suggests the same hand class plays very differently when there's already 4 BB in the middle. Stay tuned.

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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Data · 4h Data Drop

[Data] We pulled 2.4M hands from a major partner site this week — here's the single biggest leak in the population (it's not what you think)

Hey r/poker — running our weekly data drop. We mined 2.4M hands across 0.05/0.10 to 1/2 cash and ranked every decision class by bb/100 leaked.

The winner (loser?): offsuit A9o–A2o opened from EP/MP. −12.4 bb/100.

67% of the player base is opening this hand class at least once from UTG, MP, or LJ. The solver only has it in there about 11% of the time, and only the suited side at LJ.

Embedded · QuintAce Range Grid · UTG Open

↑ Solver UTG range — note: zero offsuit Ax below ATo

Why it leaks: domination. When you open A8o UTG and get called, you're either flipping vs pocket pairs or crushed by AT–AK. Top-pair-no-kicker on Ace-high boards costs you stacks against any reasonable defending range.

The fix: fold every offsuit ace below ATo from UTG–LJ. Keep your suited wheel aces. That's the whole post.

Full breakdown with the leaderboard: [link in profile]

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Tab 02 · Three Tracks

Hand of the Week

One slot, three editorial angles. Pick the track that fits the news cycle: the hand poker Twitter is talking about, a fresh-format hand from a partner stream, or a confirmed bot caught in the wild.

TRENDING NOW 2.1M views · 24h Hustler-style stream
Hand of the Week · Viral

The eight-high bluff that broke poker Twitter.

$200/$400 cash. Four-bet pot. River jam with eight-high. Then he showed it. Here's exactly what happened, and why solver doesn't hate it as much as you'd think.

It took 38 seconds for the clip to crack a million views. Hero opens BTN, BB three-bets to 14 BB, Hero four-bets to 32 BB, BB calls. The flop comes down — and then the river jam happens before anyone in the chat has finished their breath.

UTG100 BB
Fold
MP100 BB
Fold
CO100 BB
Fold
BB · Villain100 BB
Call
SB99.5 BB
Fold
8♠
7♦
BTN · Hero97 BB
Jam
Pot 164 BB
A♥
K♣
4♦
2♦
9♠
⏮
‹
Pre
Flop
Turn
River
›
⏭

What the solver sees

It looks like pure madness. It mostly is — but not entirely. Eight-seven offsuit on the BTN four-bet bluffing range is a real thing at deeper stack depths, because it blocks straights and flushes that the BB defends with. Once we get to a Ace-high disconnected board, hero has zero showdown value and a perfect line for a polarized turn-river barrel.

Solver Note
87o pure-jams the river ~6% of the time in this exact runout. It's a real bluffing combo — just not one most humans pick. Selling this story takes nerves; the math underneath is less ridiculous than the clip suggests.

The reason it went viral isn't the line — it's the showdown. Once Hero turned over eight-high, the table's reaction did the rest of the work.

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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Editorial · 12h Hand of the Week

Eight-high four-bet jam on a 5-card runout — solver actually has this combo (here's why)

You've all seen the clip. $200/$400, BTN vs BB, four-bet pot, river jam with 8♠7♦ on A-K-4-2-9. Showdown went viral because of the rebuy face.

I ran the spot through QuintAce's solver tool and the answer is more interesting than "lol punt":

87o pure-jams river ~6% of the time on this exact runout. It's a real combo in the BTN four-bet bluffing range at 100bb because it blocks the BB's straight defends (T9s, JTs) and is forced to bluff once it turns into pure air on the river.

Embedded · QuintAce Hand Replayer

▶ Pre · Flop · Turn · River · Showdown

So no, it's not a punt. It's a real bluff that almost no human ever fires. Which is exactly why it works on the rare occasion someone has the nerve.

Also: the rebuy was instant. That part was definitely not solver-approved.

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WPT GOLD · PARTNER 2.5 BB ANTE Final Table · Hand 47
Hand of the Week · Partner Spotlight

A 2.5 BB ante shoves everything sideways.

WPT Gold's signature ante structure rewrites preflop logic. We spotlight Hand 47 from Sunday's $1M Guaranteed final table — a hand the solver only plays this way because there's already 4 BB in the middle.

WPT Gold's 2.5 BB ante structure is one of the freshest formats in tournament poker. It changes shove fits, opens, defending ranges — and most people coaching off old Holdem-Resources data are years behind.

WPT Gold $1M GTD · FT · 6-handed Blinds 60K/120K · Ante 300K
UTG · 22 BB2.6M
Fold
HJ · 18 BB2.1M
Fold
A♦
9♣
CO · Hero · 14 BB1.7M
Jam
BB · 31 BB3.7M
Fold
SB · 12 BB1.4M
Fold
BTN · 26 BB3.1M
Fold
Pre · pot 4.0 BB
+ 2.5 BB ante in pot
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‹
Pre
›
⏭

Why CO open-jams 14 BB with A9o

In a no-ante structure, this is a marginal open-fold. With a 2.5 BB ante in the middle, the dead money completely changes the math: you're risking 14 to win 4, and you only need everyone behind to fold ~74% of the time to print.

Most short-stack defending ranges are too tight against a CO jam at 14 BB once they account for the ante — and A9o has enough equity when called to make it a clear shove.

Format Note
In a vanilla 1 BB ante or no-ante structure, this same hand is a fold or min-open. The 2.5 BB ante turns it into a pure jam. Format dictates strategy — copy-pasting GTO from a different ante size is the leak.

This is exactly the kind of spot we'll keep mining as the WPT Gold partnership grows — fresh format, fresh data, fresh content the rest of the market literally doesn't have charts for.

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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Editorial · 6h Partner · WPT Gold

[WPT Gold FT] How a 2.5 BB ante turns A9o from a fold into a pure 14 BB jam

Pulled this hand from Sunday's $1M Gtd FT. CO with A9o, 14 BB effective, action folded to him. Standard? Marginal? In a 2.5 BB ante structure: it's a pure jam.

The math: there's already 4.0 BB in the pot before action. Risk 14 to win 4 = need ~74% fold equity. Defending ranges behind aren't wide enough at 14 BB to call this off given the ante structure.

Embedded · QuintAce Hand Replayer · WPT Gold

▶ Watch the full hand

The interesting part is that in a 1 BB ante or no-ante structure, this is a fold or min-open. Same hand, same stacks — different format, completely different correct play.

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A5 Labs · Bot Detection

Confirmed flag · Account permanently banned · Hand declassified for editorial

Hand of the Week · Bot-Busting

Would you have caught this bot?

A5 Labs flagged this account in week 3 of monitoring. To the naked eye it looks like a competent reg. To the model, the timing patterns and decision tree look exactly like a thousand other accounts they've banned this year.

The hand we're sharing isn't dramatic. That's the point. Bots don't punt — they grind. The tells are statistical, not theatrical. Here's the spot, and the three things the model flagged.

UTG100 BB
Fold
MP100 BB
Fold
CO · ⚠ FLAGGED100 BB
R 2.2
BB100 BB
Call
SB99.5 BB
Fold
BTN100 BB
Fold
Pot 5.2 BB
Q♣
7♣
2♥

The three tells

01
Timing variance

Decision time on this hand: 2.41s. Across 12K hands the player's variance is ±0.3s. Humans don't average that flat.

02
Sizing ladder

Open sizes always 2.2× from CO — no 2.5×, no 3×, no min-raises. 100% identical for 6 months.

03
Solver alignment

97.4% match to a publicly available solver tree on a 200-hand evaluation set. Real regs land near 78%.

Individually, each tell is innocent — fast players exist, fixed-sizing players exist, solver-trained players exist. Stacked together, the joint probability of a human producing this profile across 12K hands is roughly 1 in 9 million.

A5 Labs Note
If you played 100 BB cash on this site in the last 60 days, there's a non-zero chance you sat with this account. The good news: the model caught it. The hand we're showing is one of 12,847 they reviewed before pulling the trigger.

We'll keep running this segment as A5 Labs continues to publish flagged accounts. The angle isn't shaming — it's showing the player base what bot patterns actually look like in the wild.

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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Editorial · 9h Bot-Busting

[Bot-Busting] A5 Labs flagged this account this week — would you have noticed?

The thing about bots is they don't punt — they grind. The tells aren't dramatic, they're statistical. Here's a hand from a recently-banned account, with the three things the model actually flagged:

1. Timing variance: ±0.3s across 12K hands. Humans don't think that consistently.

2. Sizing ladder: 2.2× from CO 100% of the time for 6 months. Zero variation.

3. Solver alignment: 97.4% match to a public solver tree on a 200-hand sample. Real regs are around 78%.

Each tell on its own = fine. All three together = ~1-in-9M joint probability for a human. That's the threshold.

Embedded · QuintAce Hand Replayer · A5 Labs

▶ The flagged hand · Pre · Flop

If you played 100bb cash on this site in the last 60 days you probably sat with this account. The model caught it. The hand here is one of 12,847 they reviewed.

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Tab 03 · Visual-First

Range Grid Drops

13×13 grids the rest of the market doesn't have charts for. Stand Up Game ranges, 2.5 BB ante structures, late-stage push/fold spots. Open size is the headline — that's where the shock lives.

Drop · 01
Stand Up Game · 1 player from elimination
FORMAT SUG · 6-max POSITION BTN EFFECTIVE 40 BB
Open Size
All-In · 40 BB
The standard "open" turns into a pure shove range when 1 elim away. The dead money in the round + ICM-style penalty for second place rewires the BTN entirely.
Open-shove Min-raise Limp Fold

Look at the bottom-left quadrant. K3o, Q4s, J5o — all pure jams. In a normal cash game these are nits. With the bust-out incentive flipped, they become the most aggressive spots on the board.

Drop · 02
WPT Gold · 2.5 BB ante · CO open
FORMAT MTT · 6-max POSITION CO EFFECTIVE 25 BB
Open Size
2.0 BB
With a 2.5 BB ante already in the pot, opens shrink. The classic 2.2× becomes 2.0×. Even min-raise mixes appear — pot odds for defenders are too good otherwise.
Open 2.0× Min-raise mix Fold

Way wider than a no-ante structure. Notice the suited connectors all the way down to 54s, and offsuit broadways like K9o, Q9o firmly in. Same position, same stack — the ante does the rest.

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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Data · 8h Range Drop

[Range Drop] Stand Up Game · 1 from bust · BTN at 40 BB — yes, K3o is a pure jam

If you've been playing Stand Up Game and you're using a generic 6-max chart, you're misplaying ~40% of your BTN range when there's one elim left. We solved this exact spot — sharing the grid below.

Format: SUG · 6-max · 1 player away from elimination · 40 BB effective on BTN.

The headline: the BTN open size collapses into pure all-in for the entire opening range. No min-raise, no 2.2x — just shove or fold.

Embedded · QuintAce 13×13 Range Grid

▶ Interactive grid · hover for hand frequencies

Hands you'd fold in cash that turn into pure shoves here:

K3o · Q4s · J5o · T6s · 96s · 86s · 75s

Why? Two things. (1) Bust-out incentive: finishing 6th is much worse than 5th in payout structure terms — you actively want fold equity, not realization. (2) Shove > raise because raise-fold burns chips and any non-shove bet sets up a re-jam you can't call profitably.

Full grid + the same spot at 30 BB and 50 BB in the article.

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Tab 04 · Interactive Editorial

Quiz Articles

Embed the existing Reddit-quiz format inline in a coach's own article. The reader picks an action, QuintAce solver reveals the answer, then the coach explains what they actually did.

↓ Demo — coach name and copy are placeholders for the prototype ↓
B
Bart Hanson [demo]
Cash Game · Live · $5/$10

Live $5/$10 in Vegas. I'm in the BB with a hand I'm pretty happy about, and the action gets weird. Before I tell you what I did, I want you to take a swing at it.

Effective stacks are 250 BB. CO opens to 3 BB. BTN flats. SB folds. I 3-bet to 17 BB. CO calls, BTN folds.

UTG250
F
MP250
F
CO · Villain233
Call
A♠
K♠
BB · Hero233
3-bet 17
SB249
F
BTN250
F
Flop · pot 36 BB
Q♠
J♠
7♥
Your turn · OOP, 36 BB pot, 233 BB behind
Flop comes Q♠J♠7♥. You have AK suited spades — top kicker, broadway draw, nut flush draw, gutshot. What do you do?
✓
QuintAce Solver · Flop

The OOP 3-bettor on a Q♠J♠7♥ flop wants to small-bet at high frequency. AKs is in the strongest part of your range — top broadway, nut flush draw, gutshot — and a small sizing keeps villain's worse Qx and pocket pairs in. Big sizings forfeit value when you're so equity-heavy.

What I did · Coach
[Demo placeholder] In the actual hand I went a little bigger than the solver — half pot — because I had a specific read on the villain's calling range. I'd argue the small-bet is the better default for most players in this spot. We'll dig into when sizing-up is fine and when it's just spew next week.
Article structure
Coach intro → Hand setup (replayer) → Decision point (interactive quiz) → Solver reveal → Coach's actual takeaway. Every quiz article ends with the coach's perspective after the solver — never replacing it.
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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Quiz · 3h Quiz · w/ Coach

[Quiz w/ Bart Hanson] $5/$10 live, OOP in a 3-bet pot with AKs on Q♠J♠7♥ — what's your move?

Live $5/$10 Vegas, 250 BB effective. CO opens 3, BTN flats, you 3-bet to 17 from the BB with A♠K♠. CO calls, BTN folds.

Flop: Q♠J♠7♥. Pot 36 BB. You're OOP. 233 BB behind.

What's your action?

A) Check
B) Bet 1/3 pot (12 BB)
C) Bet 2/3 pot (24 BB)
D) Bet pot (36 BB)

Interactive · QuintAce Quiz

▶ Pick your answer · solver reveals · coach explains

Solver answer + Bart's actual play in the comments.

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Tab 05 · Long-Form Editorial

Pro Hand Collections

A pro, coach, or influencer hands us their five most memorable hands. We render each in the QuintAce Hand Replayer and let them explain — in their own words — why the hand stayed with them.

↓ Demo — featured pro is a placeholder for the prototype ↓
M
Featured · QuintAce Pro Series

Maya Chen's five most memorable hands

[Demo coach] High-stakes cash specialist · 12 years pro · WPT Champions Club. Maya picks five hands that, win or lose, taught her something she still uses today.

01

The hand that taught me to fold aces

Bellagio · $25/$50 NL · 2014

Six-handed, deep stacks, a board I'd called way too thin on the turn. By the river the bet sizing was screaming — and I called anyway. The reason this hand stuck is the way it changed my framework: I stopped thinking of hand strength as a number and started thinking of it as a story.

UTG200
A♥
A♣
MP · Maya200
CO200
BB200
SB200
BTN · Villain200
River · pot 180 BB
9♣
8♣
5♣
2♦
7♣
[Demo placeholder] I had pocket aces — no club. I knew, on the river, what he had. I called anyway. That call cost me half my night and bought me a framework I still teach.
02

The bluff I'm still proud of

Aria · $10/$25 NL · 2017

4-bet pot, OOP, a runout that bricked everything I had. I'd been telling a clear story all hand — small flop bet, larger turn, polarizing river. The whole sequence only works if you commit on river. The reason I remember it: I almost folded. I made the bet anyway.

UTG200
MP200
CO200
7♦
6♣
BB · Maya200
SB200
BTN200
River · pot 140 BB
A♦
K♠
T♣
3♥
2♠
[Demo placeholder] Seven-six off, on the river, with nothing. The story had to land. I made the bet because the only person I had to convince was myself.
03

The slow roll I'll never live down

PCA Main · 2019

Featured table, cameras rolling, river jam I'd been planning since the turn. I took 12 seconds of "thinking" before calling with the nuts. I still hear about it. Worth it.

[Demo placeholder] My phone is still full of friends sending me the clip. I should have called instantly. I didn't. Not my proudest moment — and not my least proud one either.
04

The hand that paid for my house

Bobby's Room · $300/$600 · 2021

Set over set, 1000 BB deep, three streets of value with the bigger set. Sometimes the game just hands you something. The interesting bit isn't that I won — it's how my opponent played the river, which I think about more than my own line.

[Demo placeholder] He bet pot on the river. Knowing what he had, that bet still surprises me. Three years on, I think it's a great bet. Most players would have shut down.
05

The hand I should have folded

WSOP Main · Day 5 · 2022

ICM spot, average stack, the second-most-likely scenario was I bust before the bubble. I called. I busted. I'd call again — and that's the lesson I want to leave with.

[Demo placeholder] Some hands you remember because you played them right. Some you remember because you played them wrong and learned. This one I played wrong, learned nothing, and would do exactly the same thing again. That's poker.
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poker · Posted by u/QuintAce_Editorial · 1d Pro Series

Maya Chen's 5 most memorable hands — including a folded set, a nuts slow-roll, and the WSOP hand she'd misplay again

We sat down with Maya Chen and asked her for the five hands she still thinks about. She gave us:

1. Aces she folded at $25/$50 (the hand that changed her river framework)
2. A 76o river bluff in a 4-bet pot at the Aria
3. The PCA Main slow-roll she'll never live down
4. Set over set, 1000bb deep, in Bobby's Room
5. The WSOP Day 5 ICM call she'd make again

Embedded · 5× QuintAce Hand Replayer

▶ All five hands · scrubbable · share each as standalone clip

Full piece in the link in our profile. Each hand has the replayer + Maya's own commentary on why it stuck.

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