Spot On, Right Idea, or Leak: Grade Your Preflop Play Against a Solver

Most "GTO study" dies at the same wall: you open a solver, stare at a 169-hand grid of mixed frequencies, nod like you understand it, and close it. Nothing changes at the table, because you never practiced the decision — you only looked at the answer.

HandRecorder 3.2 flips that around. The new GTO Trainer puts you in real preflop spots and grades every decision you make against solver-correct play.

Practice the decision, not the chart

The Trainer deals you preflop spots at a real table and asks what you'd do. You build drills around the games you actually play:

• Table format — cash or tournament
• Number of seats — full ring, 6-max, or short-handed
• Stack depth — deep, mid, or short-stacked

Save a drill and run it again whenever you want. It's reps, not reading.

Every hand graded: Spot on / Right idea / Leak

This is the part that makes it stick. When you act, the Trainer doesn't just flash "correct" or "wrong." It grades you on three levels:

• Spot on — your action matches the solver.
• Right idea — you were on the correct side of the decision (raise vs. fold) but off on sizing or frequency.
• Leak — a real mistake, the kind that costs you money over a sample.

That middle grade matters. Poker isn't pass/fail — "right idea, wrong size" is a completely different fix than "folding a clear raise." Seeing which one you made tells you what to work on.

Turn your own recorded hands into drills

Here's the feature that ties HandRecorder's whole workflow together: you can convert the hands you recorded at the table into Trainer drills.

You already log your hands in about 2.8 seconds while you play. Now the spot where you weren't sure — the 3-bet you flat-called out of position, the marginal open in the hijack — becomes a drill you can run against the solver until the correct play is automatic. Pair it with practice-your-mistakes mode and mixed-hand focus, and your study time goes straight at your real leaks instead of someone else's example hands.

Free users get 10 trainer hands to try it before deciding.

Tournament ICM ranges, now in the Range Library

Cash-game charts don't win tournaments. Near the bubble and at a final table, the right fold or shove depends on payout pressure, not chip EV — and 3.2 bakes that in:

• ICM-adjusted ranges in the Range Library, with adjustable tournament stage and field size.
• New 3-bet charts for 10–25bb stacks — the awkward depths where most tournament mistakes happen.
• Every range shows its valuation method — chip EV or ICM — so you always know which math you're studying.

Under the hood, push/fold ranges now solve to finer precision to match published charts more closely, and post-flop analysis preserves hand weighting across streets for more realistic later-street ranges.

Why this works

The gap between "knowing GTO" and "playing GTO" is repetition under decision pressure. A grid you read teaches nothing; a spot you get graded on — and then replay from your own session — rewires how you act. That's the whole point of the 3.2 Trainer: close the loop from hand you played → leak you found → rep you drilled.

HandRecorder is free to start on iPhone and iPad (iOS 17.6+), works 100% offline with no account, and includes free tournament tools. Download it on the App Store.