What Pros Know About Node Locking That You Don’t

GTO Wizard
13 Jun 2025
Advanced
This material is for experienced players
Strategy

Professional poker coach Matt Hunt breaks down sophisticated node locking concepts using GTO Wizard AI. This advanced tutorial covers how everything affects everything else in solver ecosystems, compensation mechanisms, and multi-street implications for elite players.

Node locking teaches response strategies against specific opponents rather than optimal play against unknown strategies.

Advanced Node Locking Mastery:

  • Everything affects everything else - changing one variable alters the entire solver ecosystem and strategy calculations
  • Solvers always compensate for locked variables by reconfiguring entire strategies to maximize EV against forced constraints
  • Suboptimal opponent lines get heavily targeted - solvers gravitate toward exploiting any weakness in opponent strategy
  • Game tree restrictions have similar effects to node locking and can warp strategies beyond recognition
  • Three-street implications matter - flop locks dramatically influence turn and river play across all post-flop streets
  • Avoid locking too many variables simultaneously as it produces unrealistic max-exploit responses
  • Elite adaptation focuses on average population tendencies rather than specific individual opponent reads
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