What Is Pokalab? The All-in-One Poker Study Platform

Pokalab, the all-in-one poker study platform: the MDA range of the population next to the GTO range, a preflop solution and a trainer hand

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Pokalab is a poker study platform. It is built on mass data analysis (MDA): how the player population really plays each spot, measured on 379M real hands played online.
The pool next to GTO. Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games sits next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop, so you see exactly where real players leave the solver — and what to do about it.
Everything else in the same app. More than 50 preflop GTO solutions, a trainer that deals hands from them, a hand replayer and free poker tools. Coming next: postflop solutions and the MDA Solver.
Find your leaks, fix them. The Leak Finder measures your own hands against the Top Regs and against GTO; the MDA shows what to exploit in the pool, and the trainer drills the fix.
Cash games and tournaments. Cash: GGPoker, PokerStars, iPoker, WPN, 888poker. Tournaments: GGPoker, WPN, Chico.
Free to start. A free account opens the MDA on one real spot, a preflop solution, the trainer and the replayer. Pro opens the full MDA, from €49.99 a month.

Stop leaking, start exploiting: why one platform

Studying poker usually takes several tools: a solver or a solution library for the theory, a database of hands to see how real opponents play, a trainer to drill, a replayer to review. Pokalab puts them in one app, around one question asked spot by spot: what does the pool do here, what does GTO do, and what should you do about it?

That is the idea behind its motto, Stop leaking. Start exploiting. Find your leaks, see how the pool and GTO play those spots, and drill the fix, without leaving the app or rebuilding the spot somewhere else.

Find your leaks, then fix them with exploits and drills

The most efficient study starts from your own mistakes. Pokalab is built around that loop:

Find your leaks with the Leak Finder. Import your hand histories: the Leak Finder puts your winrate by stake and position next to the Top Regs’, the winning regulars of the population, and lists your leaks in bb/100, seat by seat and situation by situation, the costliest first. Pro adds your stats against the Top Regs and your preflop play next to GTO; postflop is next. Hands a user imports stay private to that account and are never added to the population data.
Fix them with exploits. For each leak, the MDA shows how the pool really plays the spot next to GTO — how often it folds, calls and raises, with which sizes and which ranges — so you know what to exploit and by how much. Coming soon, the MDA Solver builds the exploit for you: the solver plays against how the population really plays each spot and finds the strategy that beats it.
Drill them. The trainer deals hands in the spot you pick, from the solutions, and grades every decision with the EV it gave up, until the fix is a habit at the table.

The Pokalab Leak Finder: a player's winrate by position and preflop situation, next to the Top Regs — The Leak Finder: the Winrate Map of one player’s own 6-max cash hands, by position and preflop situation, with the gap to the Top Regs in each — red where the player does worse than them, green where better.

Everything in Pokalab

What each part does, and whether it is live, in beta or coming soon

Mass Data Analysis (MDA) Live

How the player population really plays any spot, measured on real hands: fold, call, bet and raise frequencies, bet sizes and ranges. Any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway, any sequence of bet sizes, any combination of flop, turn and river textures, by room, stake, stack depth and player type. Views: Explorer (the population's game tree, browsed node by node), Preflop (every matchup on one screen), Postflop (a spot split by bet size or board texture) and Players & Pools. Multiway pots are followed in Explorer.

GTO comparisons Live

Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games is shown next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop. Preflop, the GTO solution follows the rake and cap of the room and stake you select; postflop, the reference is solved with NL200 rake.

Preflop solutions Beta

More than 50 solved preflop trees. Cash games, each solved with its room's rake and cap: heads-up, 5-max, 6-max and 9-max, at 100 or 200 big blinds, with several open sizes. Tournaments: 8-handed with antes, from 10 to 50 big blinds. Frequencies and EV for every combo.

Trainer Beta

Hands dealt from the solutions, every decision graded, with the GTO mix and the EV given up.

Hand replayer Live

Replays hands decision by decision.

Free tools Live

Poker Math, Variance Calculator, Preflop Charts. Free, no account needed.

Postflop solutions Soon

Solved postflop trees, from the flop to the river.

Leak Finder Live

Your own hands, imported privately (up to 100,000 on a free account, 1,000,000 with Pro), measured against the Top Regs, the winning regulars of the population, and against GTO. Database: your results by stake and position, with the Top Regs' winrate beside every row. Leak Rates: where you lose, in bb/100 against the Top Regs, seat by seat and situation by situation, the costliest first. Overall (Pro): your stats against the Top Regs at your stakes. Preflop (Pro): your preflop play in six scenarios, next to GTO. Postflop (from NL50, Beta): your postflop lines spot by spot, street by street, against the Top Regs or GTO.

MDA Solver Soon

Exploitative solutions built from the MDA: the solver plays against how the population really plays each spot and finds the strategy that beats it.

PLO Soon

Pot-limit Omaha in MDA.

Feature	Status	What it does
Mass Data Analysis (MDA)	Live	How the player population really plays any spot, measured on real hands: fold, call, bet and raise frequencies, bet sizes and ranges. Any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway, any sequence of bet sizes, any combination of flop, turn and river textures, by room, stake, stack depth and player type. Views: Explorer (the population's game tree, browsed node by node), Preflop (every matchup on one screen), Postflop (a spot split by bet size or board texture) and Players & Pools. Multiway pots are followed in Explorer.
GTO comparisons	Live	Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games is shown next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop. Preflop, the GTO solution follows the rake and cap of the room and stake you select; postflop, the reference is solved with NL200 rake.
Preflop solutions	Beta	More than 50 solved preflop trees. Cash games, each solved with its room's rake and cap: heads-up, 5-max, 6-max and 9-max, at 100 or 200 big blinds, with several open sizes. Tournaments: 8-handed with antes, from 10 to 50 big blinds. Frequencies and EV for every combo.
Trainer	Beta	Hands dealt from the solutions, every decision graded, with the GTO mix and the EV given up.
Hand replayer	Live	Replays hands decision by decision.
Free tools	Live	Poker Math, Variance Calculator, Preflop Charts. Free, no account needed.
Postflop solutions	Soon	Solved postflop trees, from the flop to the river.
Leak Finder	Live	Your own hands, imported privately (up to 100,000 on a free account, 1,000,000 with Pro), measured against the Top Regs, the winning regulars of the population, and against GTO. Database: your results by stake and position, with the Top Regs' winrate beside every row. Leak Rates: where you lose, in bb/100 against the Top Regs, seat by seat and situation by situation, the costliest first. Overall (Pro): your stats against the Top Regs at your stakes. Preflop (Pro): your preflop play in six scenarios, next to GTO. Postflop (from NL50, Beta): your postflop lines spot by spot, street by street, against the Top Regs or GTO.
MDA Solver	Soon	Exploitative solutions built from the MDA: the solver plays against how the population really plays each spot and finds the strategy that beats it.
PLO	Soon	Pot-limit Omaha in MDA.

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Mass data analysis: how the pool really plays

Mass data analysis means measuring how the whole player population plays a spot on a large sample of real hands, instead of assuming everyone plays GTO. Pokalab’s MDA reads 379M real hands played online. For any spot it shows the population’s fold, call, bet and raise frequencies, its bet sizes and its ranges, filtered by room, stake, stack depth and player type.

Any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway: you can pin the bet size at every step and combine flop, turn and river textures. Every combination is computed from the hands on demand, not picked from a predefined list of scenarios. The MDA has four views:

Explorer lays the population out as a game tree, heads-up or multiway. You browse it the way you browse a solver solution: click an action and the next decision opens, with the population’s frequencies, sizes and ranges, and the GTO strategy beside them.
Preflop puts every matchup on one screen: who opens, who defends, and how the pool folds, calls and 3-bets in each, against GTO.
Postflop splits any spot by bet size or by board texture.
Players & Pools profiles a pool by stake, room and player type: winrate, preflop and postflop tendencies, results over time, and the players in it.

Pokalab MDA Explorer: a button vs big blind 2-bet pot followed node by node to the river, NL50 GGPoker regulars — MDA Explorer on a postflop line: NL50 GGPoker regulars, button vs big blind in a 2-bet pot, the line FFFRFC-XBC-XX-X — the button opens and the big blind calls, the button bets the flop and is called, both check the turn, the big blind checks the river. At the top right, the button’s river decision: how often the pool bets and checks. Below, every bet size it uses there — how often (purple) next to GTO (amber), with which range, and how the big blind answers each one.

Pokalab MDA Explorer: NL50 GGPoker regulars in the big blind facing a button open, the population's range next to the GTO range — MDA Explorer: NL50 GGPoker regulars in the big blind, facing a button open — the line FFFRF: the lojack, hijack and cutoff fold, the button raises, the small blind folds. The population’s range on the left, GTO’s on the right: red 3-bets, green calls, blue folds.

The GTO side is part of the MDA: every spot of NLHE cash games is compared to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop. Tournaments have no GTO comparison yet.

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MDA Players & Pools: the pool of NL50 GGPoker regulars with 50,000 hands or more — winrate, preflop stats, postflop stats on the flop, turn and river, results over time, and the players in it.

Preflop GTO solutions (beta)

The NL2 to NL10 solutions are free, no account needed.

A Pokalab preflop solution: the cutoff's GTO opening range at NL50 on GGPoker, 100 big blinds, combo by combo — The cutoff’s open in the NL50 GGPoker solution, 100 big blinds, 2.5x: red raises, blue folds, and on the right the combos of the hand under the cursor with their EV.

Trainer (beta)

Hands dealt from the solutions, every decision graded, with the GTO mix and the EV given up. Studying a range and playing it are two different skills: the trainer is where you practise the second one.

The trainer deals the hands on the edge of a range, where the next hand in the grid plays differently: Easy sticks to the common spots and the costly mistakes, Medium brings in less common spots, and Hard serves rarer spots and the thinnest edges more often.

The Pokalab trainer: a hand in the big blind facing a button open, with the session's score, spots played and EV lost — A trainer session in the big blind against a button open, NL50 GGPoker, 100 big blinds: fold, call or 3-bet, and on the right the score, the spots played, the EV lost and every decision graded against the solution.

Hand replayer and hand import

Replays hands decision by decision. You can already import your own hand histories. Hands a user imports stay private to that account and are never added to the population data.

Free poker tools

Free, no account needed:

Poker math calculators: pot odds, MDF, fold equity and SPR — Pot odds, MDF, bluffs, fold equity, SPR and geometric sizing — with how often real players actually fold.
Poker variance calculator, with the real standard deviation of your stake — Simulate thousands of runs: results, downswings, hands to prove you win, bankroll — with the SD real regulars have at your stake.
6-max preflop charts: free GTO ranges for every position — Opening ranges for every seat and big blind defense, solved at 100bb with GGPoker's rake — next to what NL50 regulars really open.

Research: poker, measured

Pokalab publishes research measured on the same data, in Learn:

GTO vs MDA: The Virtual Game and the Real One — GTO is the perfect strategy in a virtual game where nobody makes mistakes. MDA measures the real game. Where they agree, play GTO; where they don't, the gap is your profit.
What Is MDA in Poker? Mass Data Analysis, Explained — MDA measures how real players play each spot, on 376 million real hands. Against GTO, a river bluff-catcher is worth 0; against NL50 regulars, the same call earns +0.95 bb.
Variance in Poker — How many hands can you play without winning? At 5 bb/100, 1 time in 20 you are still down 73–84k hands later: the variance calculator’s theory, checked on real graphs up to 400,000 hands. Cash, MTT, Sit & Go, Spin & Go and PLO, one tab each.
What Is a Good 3-Bet Percentage? By Position, vs GTO — A good 3-bet % is about 10–11% against a single open, 5% to 24% by seat. A good fold to 3-bet depends on the room: about 65% on GGPoker, 57–59% on PokerStars — measured low to high stakes.
What Is a Good VPIP? What Winning Players Actually Play — Guides put a good 6-max VPIP anywhere from 20% to 30%. Measured on 11,583 online players with 10,000+ hands in five rooms: the winners play 21–27% (median 24%), the solver 22%, and above 35% almost nobody wins.
GGPoker Rake: What the Preflop Rake and Bad Beat Jackpot Fee Really Cost You — GGPoker takes 1 big blind for its jackpot from pots of 30bb or more and rakes 3-bet pots that end preflop. Measured on real 6-max hands from NL25 to NL1000: about one hand in ten pays the fee, and the two charges cost a regular 2.1 to 2.6 bb/100.
Player Types, Measured — How many kinds of poker player are there? None by nature, six useful ones by measurement — and the stat that finds the fish is not the stat that finds the winners.
Won-When-VPIP — Of the pots you choose to play, how many do you actually win? Winrate climbs in lockstep with this one number — and the best regs in the pool own it.

Coming soon

Postflop solutions. Solved postflop trees, from the flop to the river.
MDA Solver. Exploitative solutions built from the MDA: the solver plays against how the population really plays each spot and finds the strategy that beats it.
PLO. Pot-limit Omaha in MDA.

Which rooms, games and stakes

379M real hands played online, No-Limit Hold’em cash games and tournaments together. More hands are being imported, with a target of 1 billion.
Cash game rooms: GGPoker, PokerStars, iPoker, WPN, 888poker.
Cash stakes: NL2 to NL5k+.
Tournament rooms: GGPoker, WPN, Chico.
No Winamax hands.
GTO comparisons cover NLHE cash games, preflop and postflop. Tournaments have no GTO comparison yet.

How much does Pokalab cost?

A free account covers NL2 to NL10: MDA Postflop in its Limited mode, the preflop solutions of those stakes, the Trainer, the hand Replayer, and the Leak Finder's Database and Leak Rates on up to 100,000 of your own hands.

Pro opens the full MDA. It is sold by the stakes you play, in euros, taxes included; the annual plan costs 10 months.

Pokalab Pro, by stake band

Euros, taxes included

Band	Cash games	Tournaments	Monthly	Annual
Small Stakes	up to NL50	up to $9+1 buy-ins	€49.99	€499.90
Mid Stakes	up to NL200	up to $45+5 buy-ins	€99.99	€999.90
High Stakes	NL500 and up	from $50+5 buy-ins	€129.99	€1,299.90

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Every plan is on the pricing page.

Questions

What is Pokalab?

Pokalab is a poker study app built on mass data analysis (MDA): how the player population really plays any spot, measured on 379M real hands played online and shown next to GTO, with more than 50 preflop GTO solutions, a Leak Finder on your own hands, a trainer, a hand replayer and free tools.

What is mass data analysis (MDA) in poker?

Measuring how the whole player population actually plays a spot, on a large sample of real hands, instead of assuming everyone plays GTO. Pokalab shows each spot's population frequencies, bet sizes and ranges next to the GTO strategy, so you see where the pool deviates.

Is Pokalab free?

You can start free. A free account covers NL2 to NL10: MDA Postflop in its Limited mode, the preflop solutions of those stakes, the Trainer, the hand Replayer, and the Leak Finder's Database and Leak Rates on up to 100,000 of your own hands. Pro opens the full MDA, from €49.99 a month.

Does Pokalab include GTO?

Yes. Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games is shown next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop, and Pokalab includes more than 50 solved preflop trees with a trainer. Postflop solutions are coming. Tournaments have no GTO comparison yet.

Is Pokalab a poker solver?

Not one you run yourself. Pokalab gives you solutions that are already solved: more than 50 preflop trees today, and the GTO strategy next to every MDA spot of NLHE cash games, preflop and postflop. Postflop solutions and the MDA Solver, which builds exploitative strategies from the population data, are coming.

Which poker sites and stakes does Pokalab's data cover?

379M real hands played online, NLHE cash games and tournaments together. Cash games: GGPoker, PokerStars, iPoker, WPN, 888poker. Tournaments: GGPoker, WPN, Chico. Cash stakes: NL2 to NL5k+. There are no Winamax hands. Pro is sold by stake band: up to NL50, up to NL200, NL500 and up.

Does Pokalab work for tournaments?

Yes. The MDA covers tournament hands from GGPoker, WPN, Chico, and the preflop library has tournament solutions: 8-handed with antes, from 10 to 50 big blinds. Tournament spots have no GTO comparison in the MDA yet.

Does Pokalab cover multiway pots?

Yes. Explorer follows any line heads-up or multiway, with the bet size pinned at every step and any combination of flop, turn and river textures.

How much does Pokalab cost?

There is a free account. Pro (the full MDA) costs €49.99 a month (up to NL50), €99.99 a month (up to NL200), €129.99 a month (NL500 and up), taxes included; the annual plan costs 10 months.

Are the hands I import shared?

No. Hands a user imports stay private to that account and are never added to the population data.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Pokalab is a web app: it runs in your browser, and its interface is in English.

Who builds Pokalab

Built by a French former online pro (NL200–NL2k) turned developer. Contact: contact@pokalab.com, or the Discord. To see the app first, the free MDA spot opens with a free account.