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How to use MTT Coach
MTT Coach turns your tournament hand histories into coaching: what you actually do at the table, which decisions differ from a real Solver chart, and what to work on next. This guide walks you through getting started and what each page is for.
1What MTT Coach gives you
See how you really playVPIP, PFR, 3-bet, c-bet, fold to bets, showdown and more, measured from your own hands and split by position, street and situation.
Find real mistakesYour preflop decisions are checked hand by hand against real Solver charts, so you see the exact hands where you deviated, not just an average.
Know what to work onThe app ranks your most important spots, builds a study plan, and gives you drills to practice them.
Everything is based on your own uploaded hands. Nothing is guessed. When there isn't enough data for a reliable answer, the app tells you so instead of showing a made-up number.
2Getting started
- Export your hand histories from GG Poker. Use the full hand-history TXT export for each tournament. Each file already contains both the hands and the tournament result (buy-in, finish, payout), so nothing else is needed.
- Upload them on the Sessions page. You can select several TXT files at once, or upload one ZIP that contains them. Select every file for a tournament together; a partial export gives a less complete result.
- Give your upload a label (for example a date), so you can find this session later.
- Wait for processing. Analysis runs in the background; the Sessions page shows when your session is ready. Your files are processed privately and removed after analysis.
- Open the Overview to see your first summary.
Tip — Re-analyze: when MTT Coach adds new statistics, sessions you uploaded earlier don't have them yet. Click Re-analyze next to a session on the Sessions page to refresh it with the latest analysis. It doesn't create a duplicate.
More hands = better answers. One tournament is enough to start, but most spots need dozens of hands before a percentage means much. Keep uploading, and look at your results across all sessions together.
3Choosing what you look at
Most pages have a session selector at the top. Click Expand to choose:
- Overall — all your sessions combined. Best for real tendencies, because it uses the most hands.
- One session — how you played in one specific upload.
- Several sessions — tick exactly the ones you want, for example the last few weeks.
When sessions are combined, the app adds up the actual hands first and then calculates the percentage, so a big session always counts more than a small one.
4The pages, one by one
| Page | Answers | What you'll find |
|---|---|---|
| Sessions | Upload & manage | Upload hand histories, see processing status, re-analyze or delete a session. |
| Overview | How am I doing? | Your executive summary: results, game profile, sample size, your strongest signal and biggest tendency, then the top priorities for your next session. |
| My Coaching | What should I fix first? | Your session coaching summary: what to work on (FOCUS), what's also worth watching, a personal mindset reminder, and what to monitor next session. |
| Preflop | Where do my preflop decisions differ from the Solver? | Five sections — Opening, Facing an open, Facing a 3-bet, Blind play, Squeeze. Each shows its findings and a Solver decision review: every hand graded against a real chart, with View hands to see each one. |
| Postflop | What do I do after the flop? | Flop, Turn, River and Showdown sections. Each street splits what you do as the preflop raiser (c-bet, barrel) from what you do when you're not (fold to a bet, check-raise, leading), with heads-up vs. multiway and by the bet size you faced. |
| River Decisions | How do I handle the river? | Cards by pot type (single-raised, 3-bet) and whether you were the preflop raiser. Each row tells the hand story — flop → turn → river — with your call / fold / raise, the pot odds you were getting, your hand strength, and links to the actual hands. A second set of cards shows what you do when you can bet first. |
| Leaks | Which spots cost me most? | Your findings ranked by importance, each with the exact hands behind it. |
| Statistics | What happened? | All your numbers in one place: core stats, street-to-street lines, how you respond to different bet sizes, and advanced stats. Informational only — a statistic on its own is never called a leak. |
| Hands | Show me the hands | Browse hands (lowest-scored decisions, biggest wins and losses), filter them, and bookmark the ones you want to review. Open any hand in Hand review for its full story. |
| Practice | Can I fix it? | Drills built from your own priority spots, with your answers checked against the chart. |
| Progress | Am I improving? | Trend charts across your sessions and a position heatmap showing where your Solver deviations happen. |
| Mindset | Is my mental game affecting my play? | Your mental game, built from your own play: a before-session routine, live reminders during a tournament, your personal triggers, and a post-session review. Each trigger shows how strong the evidence behind it is. |
| Coach | What's my study plan? | A focused plan for your next study session: one primary spot, concrete steps, and what to work on after it. |
| Push/Fold | What do I do short-stacked? | A reference guide for short-stack shove and call decisions. |
5How to read the labels
How reliable is a number?
- Solver Checked hand by hand against a real Solver chart for that exact hand, position and stack depth. Only preflop decisions have this.
- Heuristic Compared with a guideline range based on well-known solved-game trends (for example c-bet frequency by board texture). Useful direction, not an exact Solver answer.
- Descriptive Simply what you do, with no target. Higher or lower isn't automatically good or bad.
- Insufficient evidence The spot was found, but there's no reliable target for it yet.
Coaching priority
- Focus A repeated Solver deviation: your most important spot to work on now.
- Watch A real Solver deviation, but smaller. Keep an eye on it.
- Stable A well-tested spot where you match the chart. Keep doing what you're doing.
In the Solver decision review
- Within strategy — your action matched the chart.
- Deviation — your action was different from the chart. These are the hands to review.
- Not covered — hands the chart doesn't grade (a different kind of decision). They are not mistakes.
- Insufficient data — the hand was missing cards or stack size, so it couldn't be graded.
Advanced mode
The Advanced mode switch at the bottom of the sidebar shows extra evidence details on the Leaks page: the evidence level, sample size and data source behind each leak. It's off by default and remembered in your browser.
Sample size
Numbers are shown with the hands behind them, for example 40% (2/5). Always check that count: 100% from 1 hand says very little. The Evidence column (very low → very high) tells you how much to trust a number.
6A simple weekly routine
- Upload your latest tournaments on Sessions.
- Read the Overview with the selector on Overall — note your top priority.
- Open that spot (usually on Preflop) and use View hands → Deviations only to go through the actual hands.
- Practice the spot in the Practice center for 10–15 minutes.
- Play your next session with that one spot in mind.
- Check Progress after a few weeks to see whether the deviation rate is coming down.
Work on one or two spots at a time. Fixing your biggest FOCUS spot is worth more than glancing at every statistic.
7What it can't tell you
- Postflop isn't Solver-graded. Only preflop decisions are checked against real Solver charts. Postflop numbers are heuristic guidelines or plain descriptions of your play.
- It doesn't know your opponents' ranges. Hand strength labels (Nuts → Air) describe your own hand on the board, not how it compares to what your opponent could have.
- Your own bet sizes aren't in the export. The app knows the size of bets you faced, but not the size of your own bets.
- Small samples are noisy. A few hands can swing any percentage. Judge tendencies over many sessions.
- Chip results don't include bounties. In bounty/PKO tournaments, bb/100 doesn't count bounty money — check your real dollar results too.
Questions or something that looks wrong? Contact us through the Support page.