Strategy Fit

What the blue and red strips next to hands in the replayer mean, which strategy they are measured against, and how the first step of the spot review names the chart's answer.

The replayer checks every preflop decision you made against the strategy you picked on the Ranges page and marks the result right in the hand list. It is not a grade: a strip only says whether the decision matched the chart.

Strips in the hand list

Some rows carry a narrow strip to the left of the cards:

• Blue: “in the strategy”. The chart takes your action with this hand in this spot, always or part of the time. When the cell is mixed, the hint and the review show the split: “3-bet 85 % / call 15 %”.
• Red: “outside the strategy”. The chart plays the hand another way, or does not put it in the pot at all while you did.

A row without a strip is an answer too. Folding a hand the chart does not play gets no strip, otherwise nearly the whole list would be blue. There is also no strip where the chart does not answer the decision: a big blind check, limpers in front of you, a spot the strategy has no chart for, or a stack so short that the “Shove or fold?” step answers instead. When a hand has several decisions, the one furthest from the chart colours the strip.

Hover over a row and a one-line hint names the spot, your hand, what the chart does with it and what you did.

The spot review: the first step names the answer

The “Table / Review” switch above the list puts the hand’s review where the table was. Step ① “What do I have?” opens with the chart line: strategy, format, spot and action. In the screenshot that is “Base strategy · PKO · BB vs SB open: call”, and under it the same word the strip uses: “in the strategy”. The strip and the line read one answer, so they cannot disagree.

“Show in the chart” opens this spot’s chart with your hand ringed. It is read-only; the strategy itself is edited on the Ranges page.

Which strategy it is measured against

The strips and the step ① line take their chart from “My strategy:” on the Ranges page, set separately for cash and for tournaments. The bundled “Base strategy” is an approximate model, not a recommendation. Pick your own copy there and the strips are recounted against it: a red strip means a difference from the chart you chose, and nothing more.

→ See also: Ranges and Strategies, Hand Review.