# Article registry — viewer-specific articles spawned from books. # # Article partner glossary (who is the "author" of an article?) # ------------------------------------------------------------ # Every article in this pipeline is co-authored with a recognizable poker # voice. The broad term is **author** (or **partner**). Not every author is a # coach. Current authors span four shapes: # - Coach — runs a coaching business, sells content/courses/drills # (e.g. Brad Wilson / Chasing Poker Greatness; Seidman) # - Pro player — plays professionally, no coaching business required # (e.g. Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, JRB) # - Growth / strategy partner — recognizable figure collaborating on content # where the commercial relationship is broader than coaching # (e.g. Xuan Liu, Harold Knight editorially) # - Theorist — author of public poker theory (books, podcasts) whose claims # we grade via myth-busting pieces (e.g. Seidman via Easy Game) # Field names like `coauthors`, `coach_relationship_mode`, `coach_engagement_tier` # use the word "coach" for legacy reasons; they apply to all four author shapes. # When this file says "author" it means any of the above. When it says "coach" # specifically, it's only the first bucket. # # Editorial workflow per article (agreed with Brad Wilson, 2026-04-18 — applies # beyond coaches; Brad was the pilot): # 1. Author selects article + authors outline.md (structure + TOC) # 2. Thanh provides data-pack.md (supplementary data beyond source book) # 3. Thanh drafts v1.md from book foundation + outline + data-pack # 4. Author writes feedback.md (edits + further data queries) # 5. Author writes final.md (authoritative) # 6. Publish # # Articles are a second content type in this pipeline alongside books (books.yaml). # They share: numeric verification, terminology verifier, glossary check, render # tooling, deploy pipeline. They differ: voice register (voice_guide_articles.md), # Brad-authored final, freeze on publish (no regen on source book version bump). # # Fields per article: # id unique identifier, kebab-case, also used as folder name # type one of the ids from article_types.yaml (4 reader-facing # types: legends-graded | myth-busting | in-session | plot-twist) # status drafting | review | approved | published | deferred | retired # (harmonized with books.yaml 2026-04-21; deferred is article- # specific for paused work that may resume) # source_books list of book ids the article cites # source_versions map of book_id → version at drafting time (frozen) # audience.sophistication casual | intermediate | pro # audience.intent curious | learning | applying (dash-joined for transitions) # coauthors list of people involved # byline who gets the name on the byline # length_target_words target word count # distribution list of channels where the article will be placed # series optional — other article ids this one belongs with # card.tagline short subtitle for the hub card # card.description 1-paragraph description # card.status wip | ready-for-review (reviewer = the article's author/partner, see below) # hook 1-line hook that anchors the article # # Type + status taxonomy refresh (2026-04-21): # - Old 7-type list collapsed to 4 reader-facing types with emoji badges. # See article_types.yaml for the new types. Reclassification applied to # all articles below; inline comment flags each change. # - Article status harmonized with books.yaml convention: drafting | review | # approved | published | retired (plus article-specific `deferred`). # All articles reset to drafting (or deferred, if already paused). # - All card.status reset to `wip` per Thanh — nothing is coach-signed yet. articles: - id: antes-vs-straddles # 2026-05-26: type → taxonomy 5-facet model (Thanh). The single `type` field # conflated anchor + trigger + USP + medium; replaced with orthogonal facets # below. Old `type: mechanism-walkthrough` is now expressed as # trigger=3 (mechanism) + usp_primary=γ (non-standard formats). taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Solver shows ante and straddle have asymmetric effects on NLHE strategy — ante widens every position uniformly; straddle tightens non-straddle seats (BTN drops 9.6pp, SB drops 30.5pp). Format- variation analysis that library-based solvers can't deliver. structure: range-analysis format: prose status: published source_books: [book-3] source_versions: {book-3: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate intent: curious-to-applying coauthors: [thanh, brad-wilson] byline: "Brad Wilson (Chasing Poker Greatness)" length_target_words: 1800 distribution: [quintace, brad-platform] series: [rake-vs-fishiness] card: tagline: "Why the solver widens for antes — and tightens the button for straddles" description: "Antes and straddles both put chips in the pot before the hand. The solver treats them very differently. Antes widen every position uniformly. Straddles tighten every non-straddle seat — the button drops 9.6 percentage points and the small blind drops 30. The asymmetry reshapes every seat's preflop strategy; the article works through the mechanism and the position-by-position playbook." status: live # 2026-05-06 v2.5: deployed to https://quintace-external.github.io/articles/ad-hoc/articles/antes-vs-straddles/ after full v2-endpoint repull (D-36) + modal-size defense systematic fix (D-37); coach review now post-deploy on the live URL per methodology hook: "Antes widen every opening range. Straddles don't — they tighten every non-straddle seat. BTN drops 9.6 points; SB drops 30." brand_guardrail: "Brad Wilson — Chasing Poker Greatness. Coaching register, conversational, podcast-host cadence. Brad is the author and authority; QuintAce is the solver-research collaborator. Solver is a tool Brad wields, not an oracle that grades him. No 'we grade Brad' energy." thesis_commitment: anchored review_doc_url: "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y4hXgpXr8zZIdkQ1nPQFgcVorKbaIUpW5_Fq98ycg_8/edit" # Brad Wilson's editorial draft — 13 unresolved comments as of 2026-04-21; Step 1+2 of 1-by-1 plan complete 2026-04-29 - id: jrb-dumbest-hands taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | JRB's 13 most-discussed televised hands graded against solver + population baselines. The actual leak is one hand worth ~$172K every recurrence; most calls his commentators flagged as 'wrong' are right per solver — exploit framing vs GTO. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: approved source_content_type: public_hands # NEW — article draws from public televised hand history, not a QuintAce book source_books: [] audience: sophistication: intermediate # 2026-05-18 v2.6 re-tier per Tier 2b synthesizer C2: article uses blocker analysis + per-combo reasoning + mixed-strategy frequencies which are intermediate-tier content; gloss burden was killing JRB's voice at casual tier intent: curious thesis_commitment: staged # 2026-05-18 — added per Tier 2b synthesizer S16 coach_relationship_mode: subject-persona # 2026-05-18 — added per Tier 2b synthesizer S16 coauthors: [thanh, jean-robert-bellande] # 2026-04-24: byline flipped to coach-as-author commitment per methodology §01. # Reader surface presents JRB as author + QuintAI as supporter; ghost-writing # (first-person narration, "as told to") is internal process, not disclosed # authorship credit. Previous "(as told to QuintAce)" marker dropped. byline: "Jean-Robert Bellande — Analysis by QuintAce" length_target_words: 1700 distribution: [quintace, jrb-social, partner-videos] companion_formats: [] card: tagline: "QuintAce Graded My Dumbest Hands. It's Not What You Think." description: "JRB hands over 13 of his most-discussed televised hands for solver grading. The actual fold leak is one hand — the QQ fold to Salomon, ~$172K every time the spot comes up. The famous AK fold to Persson is a right fold per combo (the solver agrees). One correct call unwound by verbal pressure (Robl's flush-rep). The Adelstein top-two call every commentator said was wrong — the solver says was right. The leak isn't misread opponents; it's conviction under pressure." status: ready-for-review brand_guardrail: "JRB as author — entertainment + self-deprecation in his voice. Owns the BrokeLivingJRB persona in first-person. QuintAce holds the solver grading voice in boxed `
` blocks (two-voice tape per subject/persona mode, methodology §01). Do NOT position JRB as technical validator. JRB's first-person narration is ghost-drafted from voice corpus; reader surface presents JRB as author, QuintAce as supporter." hook: "Everyone knows the 53s jam. QuintAce graded 13 of my most-discussed hands. The pattern it found isn't what my Instagram comments say." review_doc_url: "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q0PfT0DS-Vx6M1Du8RC1nAI6hE1qk-fH1of4b6K6E6A/edit" - id: rake-vs-fishiness taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | When rake stops being a tax and becomes a wall. Brad maps the decision matrix across rake × pool-fishiness — exploit-side analysis of game selection EV. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_books: [book-3] source_versions: {book-3: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate intent: curious-to-applying coauthors: [thanh, brad-wilson] byline: brad-wilson length_target_words: 2000 distribution: [quintace, brad-platform] series: [antes-vs-straddles] card: tagline: "When rake stops being a tax and starts being a wall" description: "Rake compresses your edge. At some threshold, it wipes it out. That threshold depends on pool fishiness as much as on the rake rate itself. This piece does the math, maps the decision matrix across rake × fishiness, and tells you which games are playable, borderline, or skip." status: ready-for-review hook: "Rake compresses your edge. At some threshold, it wipes it. That threshold depends on pool fishiness as much as on the rake rate itself." # Article originally scaffolded as `patrik-what-pros-miss` (Patrik submits 3 hands; # single 2k-word piece). 2026-04-21: Thanh redirected to the Durrrr Challenge # Revisited as the top-pick Patrik piece per marketing brief # (COACH_PIPELINE_TRACKER_BRIEF.md §Patrik Antonius — Ranked Content Ideas, Apr 21). # Same entry slot, new charter. See articles/durrrr-challenge-revisited/deviation-log.md D-0. # Cross-article note: seidman-easy-game-reexamined's `source_content_type` comment # ("second article of this type; patrik-what-pros-miss is first") is now stale — # seidman is the first coach_interview article. Flagged to Thanh for Seidman-agent sync. # 2026-04-21 Phase 1 research surfaced two blockers: # (a) Antonius segment of the Durrrr Challenge was PLO not NLHE — QuintAce's # NLHE solver doesn't apply directly; PLO solver access unverified # (b) Patrik conceded the match down ~$2M — "pre-solver instinct held up" # thesis lands inside a "Patrik lost" frame # Thanh's call: defer this article and pivot to two stronger Patrik angles # (patrik-5-questions + patrik-triton-era, added below). Research archived # at c:/tmp/durrrr-research.md — 10 verified PLO hands with sources, # reusable for future Patrik work if we activate PLO-solver tooling or # a different Durrrr angle emerges. - id: durrrr-challenge-revisited taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | The Durrrr challenge revisited at deep-stack NLHE — famous hands re-graded across the depth axis that library solvers under-cover. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: deferred # 2026-04-21 — see comment block above; active Patrik work moved to patrik-5-questions + patrik-triton-era source_content_type: public_hands # reconstructed from public Durrrr Challenge archives (YouTube, PokerTableRatings, 2+2). Patrik supplies reactions + quotes per hand, not hand submissions. source_books: [] audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, patrik-antonius] byline: "Patrik Antonius with solver analysis by QuintAce" length_target_words: 2500 # hero summary piece; deliberately longer than pipeline norm because it anchors a 5-8-article series distribution: [quintace, patrik-platform] # 2026-04-21 cross-article policy (Thanh): all coach articles focus on the # written blog piece first; video generation deferred until after the article # ships. Previous video plan (long-form + per-hand short-form from archival # footage + solver overlays) removed from active scope; revisit post-publish. primary_format: written-article # hero written piece; video companion deferred per policy above (was: archival-footage + solver-overlay video, no fresh coach recording) companion_formats: [] # video deferred — see 2026-04-21 cross-article policy comment above coach_engagement_tier: async-q-and-a # NEW field — lightest-tier ask: 3 async checkpoints, ~60-75 min total of Patrik's time (see deviation-log D-2) committed_thesis: "Pre-solver instinct held up better than you'd think." # committed at scaffold (pre-data); see deviation-log D-5 series: [] # sub-articles (one per Durrrr hand) to be added after Checkpoint 1 locks the hand list; sibling entries appended as durrrr-challenge-01-, durrrr-challenge-02-, etc. card: tagline: "The Durrrr Challenge Revisited — What the Solver Says 15 Years Later" description: "The biggest heads-up cash match in online poker history, re-analyzed with 2025 solver tech. Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan played ~39,000 hands across the Durrrr Challenge with no solver tools — PioSolver didn't ship until 2015. Fifteen years later, QuintAce's solver weighs in on 5-8 canonical hands. The finding: pre-solver instinct held up better than you'd think. This hero piece maps the arc; per-hand pieces go deep on each decision." status: ready-for-review brand_guardrail: "Peer validation tone — 'the solver surfaced lines I hadn't considered.' Patrik is measured and analytical. No gimmicky or irreverent framing. Solver 'weighs in' or 'tracks with,' does not 'grade' Patrik. Historical gravity over bait. The thesis validates the era rather than demolishing it — divergences are interesting, not damning." hook: "The biggest heads-up cash match in online poker history. Fifteen years later, the solver finds Patrik and Dwan were closer to GTO than the forums of the era would have guessed." review_doc_url: null # to be populated after Google Doc creation - id: ivey-3-defining-hands taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Famous Ivey hands re-graded across multiple NLHE formats (WSOP MTT, Monte Carlo cash, HSP, MDCG) — quantifies the public mystique against modern solver baselines across format variations. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: published source_content_type: public_hands # same shape as jrb-dumbest-hands — public televised hand history source_books: [] audience: sophistication: intermediate # 2026-05-18 v2.0 re-tier per Tier 2b synthesizer C5: blocker analysis, per-combo EV reasoning, MDF arguments are intermediate-tier content intent: curious thesis_commitment: staged # 2026-05-18 — added per Tier 2b synthesizer N8 coauthors: [thanh, phil-ivey] # phil-ivey is the featured coauthor for hub-card display per METHODOLOGY §8d. Reactor-mode: Ivey's public hands are the source material; QuintAce drafts; card still credits him prominently because the audience reads the article for him. byline: "QuintAce — with solver grading of the 5 most-discussed Phil Ivey televised hands" length_target_words: 2500 # Option C locked 2026-04-21 — 5-hand catalog, expanded band distribution: [quintace, ivey-camp-social] companion_formats: [] # video deferred — revisit post-publish card: tagline: "Phil Ivey's most legendary hands — solver-graded by QuintAce" description: "The most publicly-discussed Ivey hands in televised poker — from the Moneymaker cooler at the 2003 WSOP Main Event through the Paul Jackson bluff war at Monte Carlo '05, the $676K Dwan tank-fold on High Stakes Poker, and the Guinness-record $1.1M MDCG pot — put through the QuintAce solver. The public memory of Ivey is mostly mystique; the solver quantifies it, one decision at a time." status: live brand_guardrail: "Mystique. Ivey doesn't write and doesn't review text-heavy drafts. The solver does the grading in QuintAce's voice; Ivey's move gets shown, the verdict gets shown, no extrapolation. Public memory attaches to hands where Ivey lost the chips (cooler variance) or folded (correct tanks); frame these as the decisions that defined his legend, not as leaks to correct. Default ship without an Ivey quote — quote solicited post-v1 as optional addendum only." hook: "Every poker fan knows these hands. The solver finally grades them." review_doc_url: null # no Google Doc shared with Ivey — reactor-mode coach, quote solicited post-v1 as optional addendum only - id: seidman-easy-game-reexamined taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | 8 load-bearing claims from Easy Game put through the solver. Re-grades each — intuition vs solver coordinates — and identifies the population leaks that emerged after Seidman shipped the original. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting # v1 solver-backed draft shipped 2026-04-21. Six of eight theories (T2, T3, T4, T6, T7, T8) backed by direct QuintAce solver runs; T1 (turn importance) and T5 (redline) partial — structural logic + circumstantial solver evidence, full per-street/SDW decomposition deferred pending Seidman's call. See deviation-log #7. source_content_type: coach_interview # external-book-as-coach-proxy sub-shape (Seidman's published *Easy Game* treated as his curated body of theory). See deviation-log #1. source_books: [] audience: sophistication: casual-to-pro # deliberately wide band — per Thanh 2026-04-21; intuition-vs-math frame lands for both casual and pro readers intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, andrew-seidman] byline: "Andrew Seidman with solver grading by QuintAce" length_target_words: 3000 # anchor-piece band (2,500-3,500); exceeds Brad's 1,500-2,000 pattern. See deviation-log #3. distribution: [quintace, seidman-platform] companion_formats: [] coach_review_mode: inline-per-verdict # Seidman defends/qualifies/concedes each theory's grading in-line, not as a separate authoritative final. Confirmed by Thanh 2026-04-21. See deviation-log #4. card: tagline: "Re-testing Easy Game's core findings: intuition vs QuintAI" description: "Good poker intuition points at the right target. The solver tells you whether the target actually exists, how close you were to the coordinates, and what to do when you get there. We run 8 of Andrew Seidman's load-bearing claims from *Easy Game* through the QuintAce solver and grade each one — intuition on the money, intuition pointed at the right target but wrong coordinates, or intuition pointed at a ghost. Seidman responds inline to each verdict." status: ready-for-review brand_guardrail: "Theoretical validation tone. Seidman is a theorist; long-form depth fits; short gimmicks don't. Calibration, not demolition. No contrarian posturing. Timeless frame (intuition vs math), not a dated one (pre-solver vs post-solver)." working_title: "Intuition Hints, the Solver Answers: A Re-read of Easy Game" # locked by Thanh 2026-04-21; locked-for-v1 state. Harold polishes post-approval. Alternates preserved in outline.md §Questions 6. hook: "Intuition hints. The solver answers. A re-read of Easy Game." review_doc_url: null # to be populated after Google Doc creation # 2026-04-21: replaces the deferred durrrr-challenge-revisited as the active Patrik piece. # Sibling article also active: patrik-triton-era (entry below). Other Patrik candidates # tracked in both outlines' §Related Patrik candidates sections (hero calls, Antonius # Open, How Patrik studies, Patrik vs Ivey, PLO fundamentals). - id: patrik-5-questions taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [zeta] demonstrates: | Patrik tests his intuition against the modern solver on five spots — solver-right intuitions that are off by more than expected, deep-stack complexity, population under-bluffing, sizing cliffs vs plateaus, exploits against the studied cohort. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: approved source_content_type: coach_interview # Patrik submits 5 curated questions + post-deploy reactions; we supply the solver answers source_books: [] audience: # 2026-04-23: audience set back to intermediate-to-pro — matches the actual content # tier (per-combo blocker effects, SPR reasoning, multi-street pot geometry, exploit # decomposition). Prose is still simplified / glossed / jargon-audited for accessibility, # but the subject depth is intermediate-to-pro by nature. Per Thanh: language should be # simple + accessible, but content tier is what it is. sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, patrik-antonius] # 2026-04-24: byline updated to coach-as-author commitment per methodology §01 # (contract-based authorship, reader surface presents coach as author + QuintAce as supporter). byline: "Patrik Antonius — supported by QuintAce" length_target_words: 2600 # target band 2400-2800 (v2.0 expansion for thesis-flip handling) distribution: [quintace, patrik-platform] primary_format: written-article # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy companion_formats: [] # video deferred coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # contract-based authorship — ghost-drafted from corpus and shipped 99%-final; Patrik feedback processed as post-ship edits if received coach_relationship_mode: inquiry-director # coach's public analytical record informs the questions; QuintAce supports with the solver work; coach-voiced reactions ghost-drafted from corpus (see methodology §01). Distinct from technical-reviewer / subject-persona / coauthor modes. thesis_commitment: staged # thesis emerges from Patrik's 5 questions; see deviation-log D-2. card: tagline: "The 5 Questions Patrik Antonius Wants a Modern Solver to Settle" description: "Patrik Antonius tests his own intuition against the modern solver on five spots that matter at the top of the game — solver-right intuitions that are off by more than you'd expect, deep-stack complexity that breaks the 100bb answer, population under-bluffing, sizing cliffs inside the plateau, and the exploit against the modern studied cohort. One of the best cash players of the last two decades walks through what the solver confirms, where it catches him out, and what that gap means for the rest of us." status: ready-for-review brand_guardrail: "Patrik as author, QuintAce as supporter. Measured, analytical, first-person Patrik voice throughout. The solver is the reference tool; Patrik runs the inquiry. Short sentences, conversational cadence, plain-language verbs (corpus-voiced — see docs/author-voice-samples/patrik-antonius.md). No technical solver jargon beyond what Patrik uses publicly ('mix,' 'balance,' 'baseline,' 'comfort zones')." hook: "Five spots Patrik Antonius still wants the solver to weigh in on. The gap between his intuition and the number." review_doc_url: null # to be populated after Google Doc creation # 2026-04-21: renamed from patrik-triton-era → patrik-modern-cash. Scope broadened # from strict Triton-cash-only to "modern NLHE televised cash" (2014-2024) after # 2-source verification (see articles/patrik-modern-cash/deviation-log.md): # - Only 1 of 7 verified hands is from Triton proper (H6: T4hh vs Ni KK) # - 6 others span HSP, NGNF, Cash of the Titans, Aussie Millions 2014 # - Strict-Triton framing was editorially wrong for the actual hand archive # All 7 hands passed 2-independent-source verification (hole cards + betting # line + outcome aligned). Win/loss mix: 5W / 2L / 0S (71% winning bias). - id: patrik-modern-cash taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Seven hands from Patrik's Modern Cash era at Triton — 200bb+ deep stacks, where standard solver libraries thin out. Format-variation analysis on a stack-depth axis the field under-studies. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: public_hands # all 7 hands reconstructed from publicly aired broadcasts (HSP, NGNF, Triton, Cash of the Titans, Aussie Millions) — see deviation-log source_books: [] audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, patrik-antonius] byline: "Patrik Antonius with solver analysis by QuintAce" length_target_words: 3000 # 7 hand sections + hook + pattern + methodology distribution: [quintace, patrik-platform] primary_format: written-article # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy companion_formats: [] # video deferred coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # deploy-first house rule coach_relationship_mode: technical-reviewer thesis_commitment: staged hand_selection_bias: winning-weighted # 5W/2L mix = 71% winning bias; achieved via verification rather than selection — we kept every hand that passed 2-source verification hands_verified: 7 # see articles/patrik-modern-cash/deviation-log.md for the verification rounds + rejected candidates multi_way_hands: [2, 3] # H2 (NGNF 3-way) and H3 (HSP S9E13 4-way) are lower-reachability than HU spots per Thanh 2026-04-21; presented with a one-sentence reachability note but same solver-output treatment as HU hands card: tagline: "Seven Hands from Patrik's Modern Cash Era: A Solver Retrospective" description: "Patrik Antonius played elite televised NLHE cash through the entire solver era. HSP, Triton, Cash of the Titans, the $1.978M No Gamble No Future pot, and the Andy Ni bluff — seven hands that span 2014-2024. QuintAce's solver revisits each one. The read-based template he built pre-solver still works; the solver retrospectively confirms his instincts on most decisions and surfaces lines that didn't exist when the hands were played." status: wip brand_guardrail: "Peer validation tone — solver 'tracks with' or 'weighs in,' does not 'grade.' Measured, analytical, historically aware. Third-person narration in v1; Patrik's quotes land in v2 after post-deploy reaction. Multi-way hands (H2, H3) get a single-sentence reachability note but are presented with the same confidence as HU solver output." hook: "Seven televised cash hands, spanning Patrik's entire solver era. QuintAce's solver says he was right more often than not." review_doc_url: null # to be populated after Google Doc creation # 2026-04-21: inaugural entry in a proposed recurring "Strategy Debate" column with Xuan Liu. # First article in the pipeline with coach_mode=coauthor (see articles/xuan-strategy-debate-1/deviation-log.md #1). # Type may reclassify to counterintuitive-finding based on Xuan's topic pick — myth-busting-verdict is the # scaffold default (see outline.md §"Type decision"). Both candidate types are status=parked in article_types.yaml; # this is the second independent pilot activation of myth-busting-verdict after seidman-easy-game-reexamined — # coordinate status flip at v1 consolidation (see deviation-log.md #2). - id: xuan-strategy-debate-1 taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Xuan vs solver — the solver says mix; you can't. Now what? Exploit framing — when equilibrium recommendations are unworkable in practice and how to deviate. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: review source_content_type: coach_interview source_books: [] audience: sophistication: pro intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, xuan-liu] # 2026-04-24: byline updated to coach-as-author commitment per methodology §01 # (contract-based authorship, reader surface presents coach as author + QuintAI as supporter). byline: "Xuan Liu — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2500 # inaugural column entry; subsequent entries target ~2000 distribution: [quintace, xuan-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] coach_mode: coauthor coach_engagement_tier: realtime-collab coach_relationship_mode: peer-debate # Xuan and QuintAI alternate attributed voices; both ghost-drafted from corpus; peer-debate mode per methodology §01 thesis_commitment: staged series: [] card: tagline: "The solver says mix. You can't. Now what?" description: "Xuan Liu brings a claim she's held for years — that the solver's mixed strategies are unplayable, so the practical question is always 'what's the best pure?' QuintAI tests it across three spots. Xuan responds. Two minds, two methods, one spot. The inaugural Strategy Debate column." status: wip # 2026-04-27 — reverted from ready-for-review per Thanh; coach review still pending brand_guardrail: "Xuan Liu × QuintAI — peer-debate mode, section-labeled voice attribution. Xuan's sections (§2 claim, §4 response) in her analytical register: confident, concrete, self-aware about the human-computer gap (corpus-voiced — see docs/author-voice-samples/xuan-liu.md when populated). QuintAI sections (§1 column, §3 solver test) measured and solver-forward. Neither voice grades the other. Synthesis (§5) joint voice. No 'we grade Xuan' energy; no 'Xuan reacts to our draft' framing." hook: "Two minds, two methods, one spot. The inaugural Strategy Debate column — Xuan Liu × QuintAI." review_doc_url: null # 2026-04-21: inaugural growth-partner / pro-player wave — John Cynn, 2018 WSOP # Main Event champion. Legends-graded on 4 turning-point hands of the 2018 # final table, weighted toward the 199-hand heads-up marathon vs Tony Miles. # See articles/cynn-final-table-graded/outline.md and deviation-log.md. - id: cynn-final-table-graded taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [zeta] demonstrates: | Cynn's 199-hand WSOP Main Event final-table marathon graded as a decision sequence. MTT ICM at the bubble — a format variation library tools struggle with. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: public_hands # public televised / WSOP.com hand-by-hand coverage of 2018 ME final table source_books: [] audience: sophistication: casual intent: curious coauthors: [thanh, john-cynn] byline: "John Cynn — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2000 distribution: [quintace, cynn-social] primary_format: written-article # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy companion_formats: [] coach_relationship_mode: subject-persona # pro player, recognizable public figure — same mode shape as JRB (coach legacy field name; applies to pros too — see METHODOLOGY §0) coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # quote solicitation post-v1 via Thanh's coordination; article ships without by default thesis_commitment: staged # thesis confirmed after Phase 2 solver runs # 2026-04-22: rail migration exempted while article is frozen on KI-14/MC-5/MC-6. # Chip-EV numbers in v1 will be superseded when the MTT ICM re-analysis lands, # so migrating the current MCP-rail pulls now would be thrown-away work. The # rail-migration todo is registered deferred, unblocked_by: [KI-14]. See # `parked-mtt-article-rail-migration` (manual-todos.yaml) for the wave-level # parked state this article inherits. rail_exempt: true rail_exempt_reason: "frozen pending KI-14 MTT ICM — chip-EV numbers will be superseded by ICM re-analysis" rail_exempt_ki: [KI-14, MC-5, MC-6] card: tagline: "Was the 2018 WSOP Main Event win luck or skill? John Cynn and QuintAI revisit the 199-hand marathon" description: "John Cynn outlasted Tony Miles over 199 heads-up hands to win the 2018 WSOP Main Event. QuintAce's solver looks back at three turning-point decisions — his Day 8 snap-call with pocket Kings, the tank-fold against Miles' 7-5 bluff on a paired board, and the final hand that ended the tournament. The finding: two of three are solver-approved snap decisions. The middle one — the famous tank-fold — is the hand the solver says to call. What the article is really about is what happens next." status: wip # 2026-04-23 — MTT ICM (KI-14) + viewer-rail migration deferred; page WIP-gated brand_guardrail: "Authentic grinder-to-champion. Humble, story-driven. Narrative > technical. Don't over-formalize. No 'we grade Cynn' energy — he's a respected pro, solver is a retrospective tool. Peer-validation register: solver 'tracks with' or 'confirms,' not 'grades.' The 199-hand HU marathon is the spine — the hero is endurance discipline, not GTO knowledge." hook: "Ten hours. 199 hands. One decision — to keep playing correctly. The 2018 Main Event, re-analyzed." review_doc_url: null # Cynn-quote solicitation handled post-v1 via Thanh's coordination; no Google Doc in loop # 2026-04-21: first article anchored to book-2 (Stand-up Game). Uri Peleg is # a growth / strategy partner (METHODOLOGY §0) — recognizable poker figure # (WSOP bracelet, elite cash player) whose commercial relationship with # QuintAce spans beyond per-article coaching. The article focuses on a # specific aspect of book-2; the book itself is QuintAce-authored base # content (no partner byline on book sections — confirmed 2026-04-21). - id: uri-nlhe-reflexes-to-unlearn taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Seven NLHE reflexes that need unlearning in Stand-Up Game. Uri walks through each with solver evidence — non-standard game mechanism via cross-game transfer failures. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: source_book source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: curious-to-applying coauthors: [thanh, uri-peleg] byline: "Uri Peleg — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 1800 distribution: [quintace, uri-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy coach_relationship_mode: subject-persona # growth partner acting as Stand-up Game domain-authority author; analytical peer tone; third-person narration in v1, Uri-voice quotes land post-deploy coach_engagement_tier: async-reaction-post-deploy # ship v1 live, Uri reacts to the deployed page; no pre-review gate per §1b thesis_commitment: anchored # thesis ("NLHE muscle memory lies at 7 specific spots in Stand-up Game") is charter-locked; data verification at v1 drafting may drop or swap individual reflexes, not the thesis card: tagline: "Seven NLHE reflexes you have to unlearn in Standup NLH" description: "Stand-up Game is 6-max No-Limit Hold'em with one rule bolted on — the last player holding no squid at game end pays the penalty. That single change layers a continuous equity term on top of chip EV, and a double-digit list of NLHE habits start to leak in specific, solver-measurable ways. Uri Peleg — Stand-up Game specialist — walks through seven of those reflexes, with the solver numbers that quantify the flip and the replacement rules you can take to the table." status: wip # 2026-04-23 — Squid (non-NLHE) rail re-pull deferred; page WIP-gated brand_guardrail: "Analytical peer tone. Uri knows this format. Frame as 'Uri explains what NLHE regs don't see.' Solver is the tool, Uri is the voice. No 'we grade Uri' energy — he's an author with domain authority here. Third-person narration in v1; Uri's voice enters first-person in final via his post-deploy reaction." hook: "Stand-up Game looks identical to NLHE at first glance. Then the solver flags your first hand in red." review_doc_url: null # Google Doc mirror set up post-v1 deploy; Uri reviews the live URL plus doc per §1b # 2026-04-30: Second Uri Peleg article. Source = Uri's WhatsApp voice notes # (4 clips, ~6.3 min total) explaining Stand-up Game from first principles. # The angle that distinguishes this from Dan's `dan-squid-mental-models` # (which also teaches the "squid value = implicit ante" reframe): Uri's # focus is on PRACTICAL SIZING + STACK-DEPTH IMPLICATIONS, not pot-odds # adjustment. Specifically: limping regime in Squid, "raise to size of squid # = effective min-raise" shortcut, and effective-stack shrink (eff_bb = # total dead money / 2). Outline-preview workflow per # `feedback_outline_preview_html.md` — Uri reviews the deployed page before # continuing dictation tomorrow. - id: uri-squid-invisible-ante taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Solver-grounded walkthrough of Stand-up Game from first principles — pricing the squid button as an invisible ante that reshapes every preflop decision. A game no commercial solver opens. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical # Uri's WhatsApp voice notes → transcribed → drafted into article source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: casual-to-intermediate intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, uri-peleg] byline: "Uri Peleg — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2400 distribution: [quintace, uri-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] coach_engagement_tier: async-reaction-post-deploy # ship preview live, Uri validates dictation pipeline + content; he continues tomorrow if it looks right coach_relationship_mode: subject-persona # Uri is the author; QuintAI is the solver-voice + render layer thesis_commitment: anchored # invisible-ante reframe + 5 shortcuts + counter-example + range-floor synthesis: thesis is fully committed and structurally load-bearing card: tagline: "The squid is an invisible ante — here's the napkin math + sizing shortcut" description: "Uri Peleg dictates Stand-up Game from first principles in four passes: name it as a reverse sit-and-go, price the squid button (3 → 18 BB depending on stage), reframe the squid value as an invisible ante in every pot, then turn that into the 'raise to size of squid = effective min-raise' shortcut and the effective-stack shrink that follows. The pedagogical angle that distinguishes this from Dan's mental-models article: practical sizing + stack-depth implications." status: ready-for-review # 2026-05-01 v0.3: agent-review cleanup pass complete; all factual BLOCKERs resolved; ready for Uri's reaction-post-deploy review brand_guardrail: "Uri's voice throughout the body — third-person but in his casual peer register: em-dashes for asides, rhetorical questions to scaffold, plain language for technical concepts (no GTO jargon), concrete-first examples, second-person 'you' address. Math/data paragraphs stay in this register too — no solver-academic register in the body. Methodology section is the only place technical/process register is allowed. Verbatim Uri framing-line callouts (first-person blockquotes) stay as-is. Don't compress out his pedagogical sequence (rules → value → ante reframe → sizing/depth shortcuts). Each chapter heading should preserve Uri's framing device verbatim where possible (e.g. 'reverse sit-and-go', 'invisible dead money', 'raise to size of squid')." hook: "A squid tournament is a reverse sit-and-go: in a regular sit-and-go, the winner takes everyone's money. In Squid, the loser pays everyone. Once you know that, every pot has an invisible ante — and the napkin math gives you a handful of shortcuts." overlap_notes: "Conceptual overlap with `dan-squid-mental-models` §2 on the implicit-ante framing + the `6 × val / (N − 1)` formula. The articles diverge in DOWNSTREAM application: Dan teaches pot-odds-and-defense-ranges (call wider); Uri teaches open-sizing-and-effective-stack (open bigger, limp more, treat squid-sized raise as min-raise, stack off wider). Both can ship; the cross-link goes in 'Further reading' on each." review_doc_url: null # No Google Doc; Uri reviews the live deployed URL plus continues dictation tomorrow # 2026-04-21: PILOT article for the exploit-files type, which promoted from `reserved:` # to `types:` in specs/article_types.yaml on the same day. This article defines the # shape of every future exploit-files piece. Framing is load-bearing: solver is the # GTO baseline, the article documents the deviation, reader learns exploit-sensing # (not combo copying). Reach-gate flexes — low-reach deviations are the type's point. # See articles/jasper-ma-late-night-hcl/deviation-log.md D-0 through D-6. - id: jasper-ma-late-night-hcl taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Late Night HCL — exploit reads override solver defaults. Jasper walks through specific population reads against the HCL field that pay more than equilibrium lines. HCL partner-anchored exploit content. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: public_hands # verified via poker.org, PokerNews, HCL social + YouTube clips source_books: [] audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: applying # reader leaves with diagnostic questions for live tables, not combo-copying coauthors: [thanh, jasper-ma] byline: "Jasper Ma — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 1800 distribution: [quintace, jasper-social, hcl-adjacent] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video reaction solicited post-deploy; not scheduled pre-ship coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # reactor-mode; post-deploy DM + optional 1-min video/tweet coach_relationship_mode: reactor # pro player (not a coach); HCL-native voice; no text-heavy review gate thesis_commitment: committed-at-charter # "Solver plays for GTO. Jasper plays for HCL." — three exploit-sensing skills card: tagline: "Late Night at HCL — Exploit Reads Over Solver Defaults" description: "Jasper Ma plays 100% of his hands and wins. The solver doesn't teach you how — because the solver isn't playing HCL. This is the pilot exploit-files piece: the solver gives us the GTO baseline, Jasper's moves give us the deviation, and the article documents why the deviation beats the specific target. Two hands (the $535K river call vs Gaolito; the 5-way limp with 98o against a live-cash pool) plus the population frame of Jasper's 91-100% VPIP sessions." status: wip brand_guardrail: "Next-generation voice. Young, fresh, HCL-native. Don't force long-form stodginess. Short-form-adjacent energy in a longer piece. Not 'we grade Jasper' — we document the read-exploit pattern. Solver isn't the verdict; it's the baseline the exploit deviates from." hook: "Late night at HCL: exploit reads over solver defaults." exploit_note: "Solver is GTO baseline; article documents deviation." # new optional field for exploit-files — see deviation-log D-0 review_doc_url: null # no Google Doc — reactor-mode; post-deploy DM + optional reaction # 2026-04-21: second article anchored to book-2 (Stand-up Game), first flagship # with a Tier-1 coach (Nick Petrangelo, GTO Lab co-founder) as editorial author. # The article focuses on the Hero-Last / Desperation Polarization aspect of # book-2; the book itself is QuintAce-authored base content (no partner byline # on book sections — confirmed 2026-04-21). Article scheduled for rebuild with # full postflop-angle solver runs per Thanh 2026-04-21 (per-combo postflop data # confirmed accessible via solver_tool in Squid game_mode). - id: nick-desperation-polarization taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Stand-Up Game's last-two endgame — desperation geometry. Where the button stops being the best seat. Solver-grounded mechanism in a non-standard game. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_interview # Nick's editorial voice + GTO Lab brand layer on solver-anchored spine source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: curious-to-applying coauthors: [thanh, nick-petrangelo] byline: "Nick Petrangelo — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2000 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # deploy-first per §1b; Nick reacts to the live URL coach_relationship_mode: technical-reviewer # theorist-coach; rigorous solver grounding; inline nuance welcome thesis_commitment: anchored # thesis (desperation polarization as a structurally new regime) locked at charter; data verification may refine specific-hand slate, not the thesis card: tagline: "The cliff, the texture flip, and what the solver won't tell us" description: "Stand-up Game's hero-last state rewrites poker twice. Preflop it draws a raise-or-limp cliff — 88 raises three-quarters of the time where NLHE raises 0.2%; adjacent hands behave oppositely. Postflop it flips the texture order — K94ss monotone goes from the lowest c-bet frequency in the NLHE dataset to one of the highest, a +54.7pp swing. Nick Petrangelo walks three hands across both layers, shows where the fold-equity math drives the shift, and names the API gap that keeps per-combo postflop questions open for the solver team. Plot-twist with an honest research-notes footer." status: wip # 2026-04-23 — Squid (non-NLHE) rail re-pull deferred; page WIP-gated brand_guardrail: "Theorist-coach. Long-form depth fits. GTO Lab audience expects rigorous solver-anchored content. No hand-wavy intuition framing. Solver is co-equal voice with Nick's commentary layer. Frame the finding as a structurally new equilibrium regime (Squid adds a forward-looking penalty term NLHE doesn't have), not as 'NLHE with wider ranges.' Peer-validation register — solver 'discovers' or 'locates,' Nick 'explains,' QuintAce 'grounds the numbers.' No 'we grade Nick' energy — he's an author with domain authority. MCP postflop gap is disclosed openly, not hidden — GTO-Lab readers respect honest methodology footers." hook: "NLHE's preflop equilibrium has one axis. Squid adds a second. That axis draws a cliff preflop and flips the texture order postflop." review_doc_url: null # Google Doc mirror set up post-v1 deploy; Nick reviews the live URL plus doc per §1b # 2026-04-21: Daniel Dvoress flagship — GTO Lab co-founder (same umbrella as Nick # Petrangelo; both GTO Lab cash specialists). Charter locked by Thanh 2026-04-21: # plot-twist on c-bet sizing, 3 textures that break the NLHE cash tree in Squid, # 3-rule heuristic closer. The article focuses on flop-c-bet and later-streets # aspects of book-2; the book itself is QuintAce-authored base content (no # partner byline on book sections — confirmed 2026-04-21). Nick + Dan scheduling # overlap is fine per Thanh 2026-04-21. - id: dan-cbet-wrong-in-squid taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | NLHE c-bet habits that break in Stand-Up Game. Dan walks through the mechanism via solver pulls across squid values — a non-standard game where library solvers have no data. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical # Dan's editorial voice + GTO Lab brand layer on solver-anchored spine source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate-to-pro intent: curious-to-applying coauthors: [thanh, daniel-dvoress] byline: "Daniel Dvoress — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2100 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # deploy-first per §1b; Dan reacts to the live URL coach_relationship_mode: technical-reviewer # Tier 1 coach; deeply technical but readable register; inline nuance welcome thesis_commitment: anchored # thesis (NLHE cash c-bet sizing tree breaks on 3 specific Squid textures) locked at charter; 3-rule closer derived from data, will be dropped if data doesn't support card: tagline: "Your NLHE c-bet sizes are wrong in Standup — here's where and why" description: "Every NLHE player has the same flop c-bet sizing tree in their head. Stand-up Game's penalty rule produces three distinct CO c-bet behaviors across textures — not one. Daniel Dvoress — GTO Lab co-founder, NLHE specialist — reads the standard NLHE c-bet tree against the Squid solver across dry A-high, mid-connected two-tone (the 654/765/876 exception), and paired low, surfaces the two independent signals that drive the three behaviors, and distills a three-rule heuristic for the flop-sizing decision in Squid." status: wip # 2026-04-23 — Squid (non-NLHE) rail re-pull deferred; page WIP-gated brand_guardrail: "Dan is the cash-game technician at GTO Lab. Article needs to be deeply technical but readable — his audience wants rigor + actionable heuristics. The 3-rule closer is load-bearing. Solver is co-equal voice with Dan's commentary layer. Peer validation tone, not 'we grade Dan.' Third-person narration in v1; Dan's voice enters first-person in final via his post-deploy reaction." hook: "Three textures in Squid, three distinct c-bet behaviors. The NLHE tree only predicts one of them." review_doc_url: null # Google Doc mirror set up post-v1 deploy; Dan reviews the live URL plus doc per §1b # 2026-04-25: Dan Dvoress foundation piece — Article 1 of the Squid # Foundations series. Drafted with the implicit-ante framing (per Dan's # explicit feedback): squid equity recast as a literal implicit ante added # to every pot, so any NLHE player can read Squid spots by adding the ante # to the visible pot and computing pot odds normally. 8 widgets across §§0-7 # including ante_calculator, alternative_frames carousel, and a postflop # difference walker. Phase A solver pulls complete (12/12 successful). - id: dan-squid-mental-models taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Squid (Stand-Up Game) reads like NLHE once you can size the invisible ante. Two mechanics flip — pot odds and ranges — and Dan walks the reader through both with solver-grounded math. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: casual-to-intermediate intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, daniel-dvoress] byline: "Daniel Dvoress — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2700 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] coach_engagement_tier: post-deploy-feedback-optional coach_relationship_mode: inquiry-director thesis_commitment: anchored card: tagline: "The Squid penalty pays an implicit ante that adjusts two things — pot odds and ranges. Read those two adjustments and Squid reads like NLHE." description: "Stand-up Game adds one rule to NLHE — and that rule pays an implicit ante into every pot, equal to (1 / desperates_remaining) × 5 × val. Once you can size the ante, every Squid decision reads like an NLHE spot with bigger pot odds. The ante adjusts two things: **pot odds** (threshold drops, BB defense doubles, limping returns) and **ranges** (defending range widens and flattens, low-EQR hands enter, range structure asymmetry sets up the postflop story). §3 offers three alternative framings (lottery / MTT bubble / insurance) for readers whose brains reach for a different metaphor. §5 carries the canonical poker theory lens — frequency tracks range advantage, sizing tracks nut advantage. 9 widgets across 7 sections (range advantage grid + flop class breakdown added 2026-04-27)." status: ready-for-review # 2026-04-27 — promoted from wip after §4-§5 limp-data + range-widget cycle; coach review pending on live URL brand_guardrail: "Dan is the GTO Lab cash-game technician (NLHE specialist). Article leads with the implicit-ante framing: 'add this term to the pot, then read pot odds normally.' §4 reorganizes around 'two adjustments': pot odds and ranges (instead of four sub-effects). §5 carries the canonical poker theory lens (frequency = range advantage, sizing = nut advantage, EQR for why wider Squid ranges underperform, B:V for polarized sizing). The ante framing remains the central pedagogy; canonical theory threads through to give the article structural rigor." hook: "Stand-up Game adds an implicit ante to every pot. The ante adjusts two things — pot odds and ranges. Once you read those two adjustments, every Squid decision reads like NLHE with two new dimensions added." review_doc_url: null # 2026-04-25: Series overview page for Dan's 4-article Squid Foundations # arc. Rendered as a hub-visible review page so Thanh can see the full # series story + how it maps to Dan's original proposal in one HTML view. # Not a standalone article; functions as the canonical landing page for # the series (replaces the docs/-only series-overview.md as the public # entry point). - id: dan-squid-series-overview taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 4 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | 4-article Squid Foundations arc + mapping to Dan's original §1 / Ch1-3 proposal. Overview of a series in a game no other commercial solver opens. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: casual-to-intermediate intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, daniel-dvoress] byline: "Daniel Dvoress — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 1800 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] coach_engagement_tier: post-deploy-feedback-optional coach_relationship_mode: inquiry-director thesis_commitment: anchored card: tagline: "The 4-article Squid Foundations arc — series overview + mapping to Dan's original proposal" description: "Stand-up Game is NLHE plus one rule. This 4-article arc teaches the mental model in four passes: name the invisible ante (Article 1), watch desperation geometry collapse it (Article 2), trace its path through a full game (Article 3), and map where the depth-axis bends it back (Article 4). This page renders the series structure, the thesis arc across articles, anti-overlap matrix vs already-shipped Squid pieces, and how the 4 articles map to Dan's original §1 + Ch1/Ch2/Ch3 proposal." status: ready-for-review # 2026-04-27 — promoted from wip; series structure review-ready brand_guardrail: "Series-overview page; functions as canonical landing for the 4-article arc. Same voice/tone as Dan's individual articles (inquiry-director). Should be readable as a standalone review page or as the series landing page once articles ship." hook: "Stand-up Game is NLHE plus one rule. Four articles, one mental model — name the ante, watch the geometry, trace the flow, map the depth." review_doc_url: null # 2026-04-25: Article 2 of Dan's Squid Foundations series — outline-preview # state. Phase 0 scaffold per the outline-preview-as-HTML practice codified # in METHODOLOGY 03-pipeline-workflow.md. Body describes "what each section # will say"; solver pulls and widget HTML are not yet built. Editor's Qs # Q1-Q4 gate Phase A. API support for "down to two desperate" state # confirmed via custom SquidConfig.counts arrays. - id: nick-squid-desperation-geometry taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | How desperation geometry shapes Squid (Stand-Up Game) decisions — solver shows the cliff, the texture flip, and what it won't tell us. Non-standard game mechanism. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: casual-to-intermediate intent: learning coauthors: [thanh, nick-petrangelo] byline: "Nick Petrangelo — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2400 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # 2026-04-27: author switched Dan → Nick (Article 2 of Squid Foundations series); aligns with nick-desperation-polarization engagement mode coach_relationship_mode: technical-reviewer # theorist-coach; rigorous solver grounding, inline qualifications welcome thesis_commitment: anchored # thesis ("at down-to-two desperate, squid-equity peaks; three pairings rewire differently") locked at outline card: tagline: "Stand-up Game's Last Two: The Endgame Where the Button Stops Being the Best Seat" description: "When Stand-up Game narrows to two desperate players, the loser-risk hits 50/50 and the implicit ante peaks at 7.5 BB per pot. Three positional pairings (BvB, BTN+SB, CO+BTN) each respond differently — and the cash-NLHE habit that the button is always the best seat doesn't survive. BB beats SB at BvB by +6.21 BB/hand. SB beats BTN at BTN+SB by +2.78. Only at CO+BTN does the button's edge come through — and barely. Article 2 of the Squid Foundations series (co-authored with Dan Dvoress; Nick handles Article 2 + the desperation-state pieces, Dan handles Article 1 + the cash-game-technician pieces)." status: wip # 2026-04-25 — outline preview only; Phase A drafting gated on 4 editor's questions brand_guardrail: "Theorist-coach. Long-form depth fits. GTO Lab audience expects rigorous solver-anchored content. No hand-wavy intuition framing. Solver is co-equal voice with Nick's commentary layer. Frame the down-to-two state as a structurally new equilibrium regime (loser-risk concentration peaks; positional structure responds differently across pairings). Peer-validation register — solver 'discovers' or 'locates,' Nick 'walks the structure,' QuintAce 'grounds the numbers.' No 'we grade Nick' energy — he's an author with domain authority. Article is mechanism-walkthrough — three pairings each get their own §, walked one at a time." hook: "When the loser race narrows to two, the squid-equity term grows from one-in-six to one-in-two. Three pairings. Three different geometries. One mechanic underneath." review_doc_url: null # 2026-04-21: FIRST MTT-format article in the verified-theory-publishing pipeline. # Author: Phong "Turbo" Nguyen — live-MTT grinder, 305+ cashes. Pro-player shape # (METHODOLOGY §0), not a coach. Charter: four constructed representative MTT # spots spanning stack depths (50bb / 30bb / 20bb / 12bb), solver weighs in on # each, pattern emerges that grinder instinct's preferred direction (pot-control # vs force-action) flips from the solver's pick across the set. Source books: # book-6 (MTT) at v2.0.0 — first article anchored to this book. Step 0 MTT # endpoint verification completed 2026-04-21 before drafting (see deviation-log # D-0). NEW source_content_type introduced: `illustrative_hands` — distinct # from public_hands (televised; archive exists) and coach_interview (published # theory). Flagged to Thanh as a potentially reusable shape for pro-player # partners whose archives aren't accessible. - id: turbo-mtt-grinder-hands taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Four MTT spots, four grinder instincts, the solver weighs in. MTT ICM format variations across stack depths — formats library tools mostly precompute. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: illustrative_hands # NEW — hands constructed as representative live-MTT spots; Turbo's archive not accessible. Flagged to Thanh; promote to schema if pattern repeats. source_books: [book-6] source_versions: {book-6: "2.0.0"} # MTT book version at drafting time; endpoint verified live 2026-04-21 audience: sophistication: intermediate intent: learning # live-MTT grinders want stack-depth calibration coauthors: [thanh, turbo-nguyen] byline: "Phong 'Turbo' Nguyen — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 1800 distribution: [quintace, turbo-social] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy coach_relationship_mode: subject-persona # pro player, no coaching business; same mode as JRB and Cynn per METHODOLOGY §0/§4 coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # reactor-style: share deployed URL post-v1, light quote landing on 1-2 hands max or ship without thesis_commitment: staged # thesis emerged from Phase 2 solver runs — grinder-default direction flips from solver's across stack depths; can fall back to honest "here are 4 spots" if Turbo pushes back # 2026-04-22 G23 sweep: rail migration exempted while article is frozen on # KI-14/MC-5/MC-6 (MTT ICM routing). All 4 hands are MTT spots; 12bb/20bb # are ICM-load-bearing. Migrating MCP → endpoint now produces byte-identical # chip-EV output per the 2026-04-22 pre-flight — thrown-away work. Mirrors # cynn-final-table-graded rail_exempt pattern (2f17313). Rail-migration todo # registered deferred with unblocked_by: [KI-14, MC-5, MC-6]. See # `rail-migration-turbo-mtt-grinder-hands` (manual-todos.yaml) and # docs/g23-sweep-2026-04-22.md. rail_exempt: true rail_exempt_reason: "frozen pending KI-14 MTT ICM — chip-EV numbers will be superseded by ICM re-analysis" rail_exempt_ki: [KI-14, MC-5, MC-6] card: tagline: "Four MTT spots, four grinder instincts, the solver weighs in" description: "305 cashes is a lot of MTT hands. A live grinder develops reflexes, and the reflexes work — you don't cash 305 times without them. But every reflex has a stack-depth where it starts to leak. Four common MTT spots — 50bb, 30bb, 20bb, 12bb — each with a standard grinder instinct. The Quintace solver weighs in on each. The pattern across the four: the grinder's preferred direction (pot-control at one depth, force-action at another) is systematically the opposite of what the solver picks. The tax per spot is small; over 305 cashes it compounds." status: wip # MCP-vs-endpoint divergence flagged for MTT; article gated pending audit reconciliation (2026-04-22) brand_guardrail: "Grinder relatability. Don't over-elevate Turbo beyond reality. He's a road-warrior live-MTT grinder, not an elite pro. Tone reads 'these are spots grinders actually see,' not 'elite-pro decisions.' Solver 'weighs in,' doesn't 'grade.' Humble register throughout. Third-person narration in v1; Turbo's voice lands post-deploy on 1-2 hands max (reactor-style) or article ships without quotes." hook: "305 cashes, four hands: where grinder instinct meets the solver." mtt_endpoint_verified: true # NEW flag — first MTT article in pipeline; Step 0 gate passed 2026-04-21 (see deviation-log D-0) review_doc_url: null # no Google Doc — subject/persona mode with reactor-style engagement; share deployed URL directly with Turbo post-v1 # 2026-04-24: Nick Petrangelo on-ramp / introductory piece for the Stand-up Game # article catalog. Pairs with nick-desperation-polarization (deep dive) — this # piece is the "read this first" article for cash regs new to Squid. Pattern A # mechanism-first per articles/methodology/14-article-structure-patterns.md; # 100% citation-based (zero new solver pulls in Phase A) — every numeric claim # cross-references existing anchors in dan-cbet-wrong-in-squid, # nick-desperation-polarization, and uri-nlhe-reflexes-to-unlearn. The article # focuses on the broad NLHE-vs-Squid mental-model translation; deep dives on # specific streets live in Dan / Uri / Nick existing articles. Phase A # foundation artifacts (outline, facts.yaml, hand_classifications, # coined_terms audit) shipped 2026-04-24; Phase B v1.md gated on # docs/author-voice-samples/nick-petrangelo.md being built (currently missing). - id: nick-squid-vs-nlhe-first-orbit taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Stand-Up Game's first orbit vs NLHE — the on-ramp for NLHE players new to the format. Solver delta-grids across squid values. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting source_content_type: coach_authored_technical # Nick's editorial voice + GTO Lab brand layer on solver-anchored spine source_books: [book-2] source_versions: {book-2: "1.8.0"} audience: sophistication: intermediate intent: curious-to-learning coauthors: [thanh, nick-petrangelo] byline: "Nick Petrangelo — supported by QuintAI" length_target_words: 2200 distribution: [quintace, gto-lab-platform] primary_format: written-article companion_formats: [] # video deferred per 2026-04-21 cross-article policy series: [nick-desperation-polarization] # on-ramp / deep-dive pairing — read this first, then desperation-polarization for hero-last detail coach_engagement_tier: single-async-checkpoint # deploy-first per §1b; Nick reacts to the live URL coach_relationship_mode: technical-reviewer # theorist-coach; rigorous solver grounding; inline nuance welcome thesis_commitment: anchored # thesis (two-equity-term mental model recasts every Squid decision) locked at charter; section-by-section tour adapts to data, framework holds structure_pattern: A # mechanism-first per 14-article-structure-patterns.md §14.2 — taxonomy / classifier shape, intermediate audience, on-ramp role card: tagline: "Stand-up Game vs NLHE — the on-ramp for NLHE players new to the format" description: "Stand-up Game is 6-max NLHE with one structural rule added: each time you win a hand you collect a squid; players who never win one pay the penalty at game end. That single change adds a second equity term to every decision and reshapes the NLHE tree differently on each street — preflop ranges widen (BB defense 50.6% → 95.8% at val=3), flop c-bet splits into three patterns by texture, turn/river polarization sharpens, and a hero-last vs fresh state asymmetry emerges late. Nick Petrangelo walks the framework first, then the streets — the introductory piece an NLHE player reads before Dan's c-bet article, Uri's reflexes article, and Nick's own desperation-polarization piece." status: wip # Phase A foundation only — v1.md not yet drafted; voice corpus blocker open brand_guardrail: "Theorist-coach. Long-form depth fits but ON-RAMP — broader and shallower than nick-desperation-polarization. GTO Lab audience expects rigorous solver-anchored content even in introductory pieces; no hand-wavy intuition framing. Solver is co-equal voice with Nick's coaching layer. Frame the article as Nick's NLHE-to-Squid translation framework — the two-equity-term mental model — that he teaches GTO Lab students. Peer-validation register (solver 'discovers,' Nick 'teaches the translation,' QuintAce 'grounds the numbers'). No 'we grade Nick' energy — he's the framework's owner. Section-by-section tour is the structural unit; depth on each street lives in Dan / Uri / Nick's existing articles, cross-linked here." hook: "Stand-up Game adds one equity term to NLHE. That single change reshapes preflop, c-bet sizing, and late-street defense in ways the NLHE tree doesn't predict." review_doc_url: null # Google Doc mirror set up post-v1 deploy; Nick reviews the live URL plus doc per §1b # 2026-04-29: First VTP-piloted entry in the "Leak of the Week" series. Charter # initially scoped at UTG-vs-BTN-coldcall (SRP) on 2026-04-29; pivoted same-day # to the canonical 3-bet-pot OOP spot (SB 3-bets, BTN calls, hero c-bet OOP) — # see articles/cbet-too-much-oop/deviation-log.md D-1. The 3-bp spot is the # bigger leak (wider solver-vs-room gap, harder positional disadvantage) and # mirrors the existing `marketing-department/.../drafts/lotw/cbetting-too-much-oop.md` # placeholder draft (which carries LLM-fabricated numbers; this entry produces # grounded ones). # # Two-repo workflow per project_lotw_pipeline_integration.md (memory): # • This VTP folder = back-of-house (pull script, JSON outputs, deviation log, # facts.yaml rail declaration). NOT deployed to internals.quintace.ai for # blog-only LW entries. # • Published artifact = marketing-department/04_marketing_materials/articles/ # drafts/lotw/cbetting-too-much-oop.md. Mykola's Nuxt Content build picks it # up directly. Body is markdown prose + screenshot placeholders, no Chart.js, # no widgets. # # Authored solo (Harold Knight) under QuintAce byline. Skips Phase 3 (author # review) and Phase 4 collapses into the lotw/ markdown rewrite once Phase 1 # data lands. - id: jrb-fold taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [epsilon] demonstrates: | Famous JRB fold at 1,140bb (Stuck With GTO Ep 1). 8 visual languages, one locked story — shows where standard GTO solvers fail (no library has this state) and why DRL + exploit framing reaches the right answer. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: comic # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh + Marketoonist (comic)" card: tagline: "Stuck With GTO — multi-style comic series" description: "Famous-hand spotlights where every GTO solver fails. Episode #1 (the JRB fold at 1,140bb) ships in 8 visual languages — Marketoonist, Kaiji manga, Brosh, Sci-Fi Pulp, xkcd, RoughJS, Drake, Lichtenstein. Story locked, channel picks the style." status: ready-for-review cover: cover.svg variants: - {label: "See the comic", path: "artifacts/marketoonist/"} - {label: "Partner cut (3-cartoon)", path: "artifacts/marketoonist-partner/"} - {label: "Browse all 8 styles", path: ""} - id: mariano-stand-up-aces taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Mariano's $340K aces in HCL Stand-Up Game (Every Format Every Game Ep 1). Vanilla solvers misanalyze the cooler because they don't model the Stand-Up Game token economy. HCL partner-anchored. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: comic # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh + Marketoonist (comic)" card: tagline: "Every Format, Every Game · Ep 1 — Mariano's $340K Stand-Up cooler" description: "Mariano with pocket aces in HCL Stand-Up Game (val=3, ~1260bb effective). The $340K cooler that vanilla solvers misanalyze because they don't model the Stand-Up Game token economy." status: ready-for-review cover: cover.svg variants: - {label: "See the comic", path: "artifacts/marketoonist/"} - {label: "Partner cut", path: "artifacts/marketoonist-partner/"} - {label: "In-depth walkthrough", path: ""} - id: hcl-five-way-stand-up taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: beta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [delta] demonstrates: | Five-way preflop all-in on HCL Stand-Up Game ($95K pot). Multiway pot at full game-tree fidelity in a non-standard game — two structural USPs library tools can't deliver. HCL partner-anchored. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: comic # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh + Marketoonist (comic)" card: tagline: "Every Format, Every Game — HCL 5-way Stand-Up preflop all-in" description: "Five-way preflop all-in on Hustler Casino Live's Stand-Up Game (Jan 3 2025). Francisco AsTs · Mariano Qc7c · Adi AdKs · Klu Td9d · Peter 22. $95K pot. Peter's deuces hold." status: ready-for-review cover: cover.svg variants: - {label: "Partner cut (5-cartoon)", path: "artifacts/marketoonist-partner/"} - {label: "Manga cut (vertical scroll)", path: "artifacts/manga/"} - {label: "In-depth walkthrough", path: ""} - id: gto-floor-not-ceiling taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [zeta] demonstrates: | Eight foundation skills GTO study reliably builds; eight ceiling skills it doesn't reach (live reads, opponent-specific deviations, ICM, tilt management, table selection, study personalization, format cross-pollination, multi-way / exotic). Exploit framing for the coach community. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" card: tagline: "GTO Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling" description: "Media-partners track piece. The poker industry treats GTO as ground truth; the broader gameplay-AI field has always seen it as a starting point. Outlet pitch outline." status: wip - id: how-to-evaluate-gameplay-ai taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Current evaluation in the field is narrow (heads-up bot-vs-LLM, SlumBot benchmarking). The right methodology is layered: B1 consistency, solver alignment, per-street exploitability, RL exploiter, cross-method H2H, format transfer, real-game performance. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" card: tagline: "How to Actually Evaluate a Gameplay AI" description: "Media-partners track piece. AIVAT, all-in-EV, decision-quality metrics — what works, what doesn't, what the field has settled on outside poker. Outlet pitch outline." status: wip - id: what-algorithms-cant-do taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [zeta] demonstrates: | Three irreducible roles of human judgment in modern gameplay AI: autonomy gap (AI methodology depends on humans), outperformance gap (AI hasn't beaten top humans at scale), pedagogy gap (GTO study alone doesn't make a player). structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" card: tagline: "What the Algorithms Can't Do (And Why You Still Need Coaches)" description: "Media-partners track piece. The cases where computational poker AI hits a ceiling and human-expert framing still matters — exploit, ecology, narrative, context. Outlet pitch outline." status: wip - id: three-things-ai-hasnt-replaced taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [epsilon] demonstrates: | Cross-domain field guide: AlphaStar / OpenAI Five / Suphx / Pluribus / AlphaGo / Cicero — what each AI domain has replaced and what it still can't. Methodology piece extending the manifesto. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" card: tagline: "Three Things AI Hasn't Replaced — A Cross-Domain Field Guide" description: "Media-partners track piece. AlphaStar / OpenAI Five / Suphx / Pluribus / AlphaGo / Cicero — what each AI domain has replaced and what it still can't. Outlet pitch outline." status: wip - id: cfr-drl-gto-based-learning taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Manifesto piece. For the poker industry GTO is ground truth; for the broader field of gameplay AI (AlphaStar, OpenAI Five, Suphx, AlphaGo, Cicero), pure equilibrium-seeking has never been the cutting edge. DRL + search has been the frontier for over a decade. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "GTO Is a Poker-Industry Story. The Cutting Edge of Gameplay AI Has Always Been Somewhere Else." card: tagline: "The manifesto." description: "For the poker industry, GTO is ground truth. For the broader field of gameplay AI — AlphaStar, OpenAI Five, Suphx, AlphaGo, Cicero — pure equilibrium-seeking has never been the cutting edge. The strongest game-AI systems for over a decade have been built on deep reinforcement learning, or DRL combined with search. The poker industry's marketing layer is the last place treating pure GTO as the frontier." status: review - id: student-when-solvers-disagree taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Internal benchmarks (1755-flop FCR 0.94, 300-spot Pio 299/300, mean EV-distance 0.000064 of pot, ICM MAE 0.28% vs Pio's 13%) showing where DRL and CFR-class solvers converge — and where the disagreements come from. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "When QuintAce, GTO Wizard, and Other Solvers Disagree" card: tagline: "Data-anchored student / coach piece." description: "Most of the time, DRL and CFR-class solvers agree on the same hand — internal benchmarks (1755-flop FCR coverage, decision-level convergence) confirm this. The interesting and pedagogically valuable cases are where they disagree, and what those disagreements reveal about each method's blind spots." status: review - id: student-drl-vs-cfr-architecture taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | When DRL tracks CFR ground truth closely (abstracted games) vs when full CFR is intractable and DRL is the only option (most surfaces students study). 3-tier directional-alignment framework + 10-format × 4-tool coverage matrix. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: review byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Why DRL Is the Default Solver — and Where Full CFR Still Helps as a Cross-Check" card: tagline: "Architecture comparison piece." description: "For abstracted poker games where full CFR can run to convergence, DRL tracks closely with the CFR ground truth — fast, broad-coverage, no memorization issues. For the games CFR can't reach (large state spaces, Squid, multi-street complexity), DRL is the only practical option. Where the cross-check still matters and where it doesn't." status: review - id: all-in-ev-illusion taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 2 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [epsilon] demonstrates: | Coin Poker's 2026 Heads-Up Cash Game World Championship just crowned SeaLlama (NLHE) and Yodogoki (PLO) using EV BB. The QuintAce Rank uses decision-quality as the denominator instead — re-grades the championship + introduces the methodology. Topical launch artifact. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "The All-In EV Illusion + QuintAce Rank Launch" card: tagline: "Solver-graded launch artifact." description: "Coin Poker's 2026 Heads-Up Cash Game World Championship just crowned SeaLlama (NLHE) and Yodogoki (PLO) using EV BB — a sophisticated metric that nevertheless ranks players on a denominator they don't control. The QuintAce Rank uses decision-quality (vs solver) as the denominator instead. Re-grades the championship + introduces the methodology." status: wip # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Planning / Concept — internal media-partners hub sections 2-6. # No content folder; outline only. Surfaced in the external hub's # Drafting tier so the inventory matches internal 1:1. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - id: reading-solver-disagreement-methodology taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | When commercial CFR tools disagree with each other and with DRL, the disagreement isn't a bug — it's the abstraction speaking. Methodology deep-dive companion to the Student B1 piece. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Reading Solver Disagreement: A Methodology Deep-Dive" card: tagline: "Manifesto · A2 — methodology deep-dive." description: "When commercial CFR tools disagree with each other and with DRL, the disagreement isn't a bug — it's the abstraction speaking. The 1755-flop alignment study; the ICM 0.28% vs 13% MAE finding; what disagreement actually signals. Field-level companion to Student · B1. Outlet: Tech Review / IEEE Spectrum. 2,000-3,000 words." status: planning - id: most-poker-games-no-solver taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [zeta] demonstrates: | Of 10 common poker formats, only one is essentially-solved. The architectural reason CFR can't catch up. PLO multiway, MTT-with-real-ICM, Squid — what the future of poker AI looks like beyond HU NLHE. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Most Poker Games Have No Solver" card: tagline: "Manifesto · A3." description: "Of 10 common poker formats, only one is essentially-solved. The architectural reason CFR can't catch up. PLO multiway, MTT-with-real-ICM, Squid — what the future of poker AI looks like when the toolchain stops at HU NLHE. Outlet: Quanta / Tech Review. 2,000-3,000 words." status: planning - id: russian-bots-vs-solver taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | The only AI that consistently outperforms top humans in production uses exploitation, not GTO. Inside the bot landscape: BFC, BEX, and what superhuman poker AI looks like when you build it for the actual game. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "What the Russian Bots Know That Your Solver Doesn't" card: tagline: "Anti-cheat · A4 — Bloomberg-track investigative." description: "The only AI that consistently outperforms top humans in production uses exploitation, not GTO. Inside the bot landscape: BFC, BEX, and what superhuman poker AI looks like when you build it for the actual game. Outlet: Bloomberg (Chellel). 2,500-3,500 words." status: planning - id: bots-beat-humans-vs-science taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Standalone investigative piece extending Bloomberg's BFC reporting. What anti-cheat engineers see that solver researchers miss. AceGuardian-led; exploit-side intel from inside the bot-detection war. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "The Bots That Beat Humans Don't Look Like the Ones in Science" card: tagline: "Anti-cheat standalone — Bloomberg extension." description: "Standalone investigative piece extending Bloomberg's BFC reporting. What anti-cheat engineers see that solver researchers miss. AceGuardian-led; pitches from inside the bot-detection war. Outlet: Bloomberg (Chellel) — primary. 2,500-3,500 words." status: planning - id: per-format-study-guidance taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [delta] demonstrates: | Format-by-format study guidance: PLO tree explosion + DRL navigation; MTT-ICM snapshots vs real dynamic ICM; multi-way pot dynamics; Squid (no commercial solver). What to study, with which tool, per format. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Per-Format Study Guidance: PLO, MTT, Multiway, Squid" card: tagline: "Student · B3 — format-specific study guidance." description: "Format-by-format study guidance. Assumes the reader has B7's tool-choice framework. Goes deep on per-format dynamics: PLO tree explosion and how DRL navigates 4-card combinatorics; MTT-ICM snapshots vs real dynamic ICM and what each tool can and can't model; multi-way pot dynamics; Squid (no commercial solver exists). 2,000-2,500 words." status: planning - id: beyond-gto-floor-real-opponent taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Why pros tell students 'GTO is the floor, not the ceiling.' Population deviation patterns; how to study exploit lines; QuintAce DRL exploit features as case study; the workflow combining GTO foundation with exploit refinement. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Beyond the GTO Floor: Studying Real-Opponent Adjustments" card: tagline: "Student · B4 — exploit-side companion to B7." description: "Why pros tell students 'GTO is the floor, not the ceiling.' Population deviation patterns; how to study exploit lines; using QuintAce DRL exploit features as case study; the workflow that combines GTO foundation with exploit refinement. Outlet: Coach + advanced student publications. 2,000-2,500 words." status: planning - id: how-to-tell-poker-ai-good taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Student-class evaluation piece. The four-rung evaluation ladder, taught as a student tool. When a tool says it's accurate, here's what that actually means. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: planning byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "How to Tell If a Poker AI Is Actually Good" card: tagline: "Student · B5 — student-class evaluation piece." description: "The four-rung evaluation ladder, taught as a student tool. When a tool says it's accurate, here's what that actually means. Apply to QuintAce honestly; demand the same disclosure from any tool you study with. Less-technical student version of Manifesto · A5. Outlet: Sophisticated student + coach publications. 1,500-2,500 words." status: planning - id: pluribus-got-wrong-inside taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [epsilon] demonstrates: | First-person account by Nick Petrangelo of being a Pluribus participant + the methodology issues + payment refusal context. Coach-voice piece on a famous AI moment in poker history. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: concept byline: "Nick Petrangelo (Coach voice · C1)" working_title: "What Pluribus Got Wrong (From Inside)" card: tagline: "Coach voice · C1 — Nick Petrangelo bylined." description: "First-person account by Nick Petrangelo of being a Pluribus participant + the methodology issues + the payment refusal context. Bylined coach-voice piece extending the manifesto with primary-source authority. Pending coach permission." status: concept - id: where-game-theory-applies-poker taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | What 'zero-sum' actually means; where game theory cleanly applies (HU NLHE without rake); where it bends (multi-equilibria in 6-max); where it stops applying (raked cash, MTT-ICM, multi-way, exotic formats). Dan Dvoress coach voice on AI methodology. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: concept byline: "Daniel Dvoress (Coach voice · C2, proposed)" working_title: "Where Game Theory Applies in Poker — and Where It Doesn't" card: tagline: "Coach voice · C2 — Dan Dvoress bylined (proposed)." description: "What 'zero-sum' actually means, where the math of game theory cleanly applies (HU NLHE without rake), where it bends (multi-equilibria in 6-max), and where it stops applying altogether (raked cash, MTT-ICM, multi-way pots, exotic formats). The primer the poker community has been studying around for years without anyone writing it down clearly. Pending outreach." status: concept - id: solver-exploitability-replication taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 4 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Methodology paper replicating Lisý & Bowling 2017 for current commercial CFR tools (GTO Wizard, PIO, Monker post-2017). Cross-abstraction exploitability quantified for the first time. Academic track. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: concept byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "How Exploitable Is Your Solver, Actually?" card: tagline: "Academic sequel paper — exploitability methodology." description: "A methodology paper replicating Lisý & Bowling 2017 for current commercial CFR tools (GTO Wizard, PIO, Monker post-2017). Cross-abstraction exploitability quantified for the first time. Academic publication track. Outlet: NeurIPS / AAAI / Science. Q3 2026 target." status: concept - id: industry-operator-series taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 4 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: zeta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | AceGuardian-branded series for poker rooms, operators, integrity bodies, investors. What AI means for poker integrity, the operator economy, and the next decade of the industry. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: concept byline: "AceGuardian Technologies" working_title: "Industry / Operator Series" card: tagline: "Future Track · AceGuardian-led." description: "AceGuardian-branded series for poker rooms, operators, integrity bodies, investors. What AI means for poker integrity, the operator economy, and the next decade of the industry. Brand-strategy pending." status: concept - id: pro-high-stakes-series taxonomy: anchor: C # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 4 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | For mid-to-high-stakes regs and pros. Population-aware play, game selection, and winrate optimization beyond GTO at the table. Exploit-focused future track. structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: concept byline: "Thanh Tran (AceGuardian + QuintAce)" working_title: "Pro / High-Stakes Series" card: tagline: "Future Track · Pro / High-Stakes." description: "For mid-to-high-stakes regs and pros. Population-aware play, game selection, and winrate optimization beyond GTO at the table. Sequenced after manifesto for poker-community amplification. Outlet: Poker community publications." status: concept # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Proposed pieces (gap-driven additions - see methodology/_content-roadmap.md) # Anyone can claim: flip status: proposed -> drafting, replace byline, copy # _template/ to articles//, start writing per WRITER_GUIDE.md Prompt A2. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - id: ivey-folded-kings-otf taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: alpha # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [gamma] # gamma: 500bb deep stack is a non-standard format axis demonstrates: | Brad Booth's 4-high bluff against Phil Ivey's KK on HSP Season 3 — a hand library solvers cannot analyze because no precomputed tree exists at 500bb effective. QuintAce's DRL returns a strategy instantly. The strongest single example of Feature 4.1 in the famous-hand catalog. structure: hand-analysis format: prose status: review source_content_type: public_hands source_show: "High Stakes Poker Season 3" byline: "QuintAce" card: tagline: "At 750bb deep on HSP Season 3, KK facing a $286K all-in on 7♠6♦3♦ is not the snap call everyone remembers. The math explains why Ivey's fold was defensible." description: "Brad Booth shoves $286,000 into Phil Ivey's KK on a low flop at 750bb. The internet says call. The pot geometry says otherwise. A breakdown of how extreme depth turns a standard overpair into a genuinely close fold — with a QuintAce solver pull (disclosed as extrapolation past training coverage) to back it up." status: ready-for-review variants: - {label: "Read the comic", path: "comic.html"} - {label: "Read the article", path: ""} - id: hcl-guttman-55-river-jam taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace (HCL partner content → Poker tab on hub) trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: alpha # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Henry Guttman jams 55 on the river of K♦9♥4♥3♣4♦ facing Airball's $45k value bet, making Airball fold KQ on HCL. Pocket fives is a near-zero reach hand at this node — it should fold the flop and never arrives here in equilibrium. QuintAce extrapolates the off-tree river strategy to show exactly how far outside the solver's playbook the bluff sits, and why the impossibility of the bluff was its own disguise. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: review byline: "QuintAce" working_title: "Henry Guttman Ran a Bluff That Shouldn't Exist — and It Worked" card: tagline: "The worst possible bluff in the deck — and it worked" description: "Guttman jams $113k with 55 on K♦9♥4♥3♣4♦, making Airball fold KQ. Pocket fives is a flop fold in equilibrium — it barely exists at the river node. QuintAce extrapolates the off-tree strategy to show exactly how far outside the solver's tree the bluff sits." status: ready-for-review variants: - {label: "Read the comic", path: "comic.html"} - {label: "Read the article", path: ""} - id: hcl-off-tree-turn-decision taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: alpha # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Combines two leverage points: partner-anchored content (HCL distribution) + alpha off-tree (Feature 4.1). Companion to Mariano and HCL Five-Way Stand-Up but anchored on Feature 4.1 rather than delta. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: drafting byline: "claim-me" working_title: "HCL — an off-tree turn decision the library could not answer" card: tagline: "Partner-anchored off-tree showcase — pick a specific HCL hand" description: "A specific HCL hand where the turn action went outside what any precomputed solver library covers — unusual sizing, multiway with odd action shape, or a spot where the SPR forced a non-standard line. Walk through how QuintAce's DRL returns an answer where the library tool would error." status: wip - id: triton-3way-bubble taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: beta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [gamma] demonstrates: | Demonstrates Feature 4.2 (multiway pots at full fidelity) crossed with Feature 4.3 (MTT ICM as non-standard format). Two USPs in one piece. Famous-hand anchored, ambassador-bylined. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Triton 3-way bubble: ICM + multiway in one decision" card: tagline: "A famous Triton 3-way bubble hand where ICM and multiway pressure compound" description: "A specific Triton High Roller 3-way bubble hand. Solver returns full-fidelity multiway strategy with ICM-aware ranges. PIO and GTO+ struggle architecturally with 3-way; the library tools handle it via heuristic approximations." status: proposed - id: plo-4way-nut-flush-vs-set taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: beta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [delta] demonstrates: | Demonstrates Feature 4.2 (multiway at full fidelity) AND Feature 4.3 (PLO is a non-standard game). Strongest single piece for showcasing 'we can do what others architecturally cannot.' structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "PLO 4-way: nut flush vs set — what the solver actually does" card: tagline: "Multiway PLO mechanism showing 3 USPs in action" description: "A canonical PLO 4-way spot — nut flush draw vs set, with two more live ranges. Walk through how the solver returns strategies for all four positions simultaneously, with cross-range interactions PIO cannot model at this depth in PLO. Mechanism piece, not a famous hand." status: proposed - id: bounty-mtt-multiway-bubble taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: beta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [gamma] demonstrates: | Triple USP showcase: beta multiway × gamma MTT format × the Bounty variant complexity. Strongest 'multi-format depth' claim available. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Bounty MTT 4-way bubble: where every other solver stops" card: tagline: "Bounty MTT multiway pot at the bubble — three USPs colliding" description: "Bounty MTT format compounds ICM with progressive knockout bounty value. Add a 4-way pot at the bubble and the solver state space is something no commercial tool addresses. Walk through how QuintAce returns ranges + EV breakdown across all four seats." status: proposed - id: big-ante-cash-mechanism taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Explicit gamma non-Squid format. Diversifies coverage of QuintAce's solver-handles-NLHE-variants claim away from Squid-heavy delta pieces. Pairs naturally with antes-vs-straddles (Brad). structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Big Ante cash — how the format reshapes preflop ranges" card: tagline: "Big Ante structure mechanism walkthrough — explicit non-Squid format coverage" description: "Big Ante cash games (8x+ ante, three-blind variants) reshape preflop ranges across every position. Mechanism piece walking through the solver output across ante sizes, with comparisons to standard cash. Antes-vs-straddles companion piece on a different format axis." status: proposed - id: mtt-icm-bubble-deep-stack taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Demonstrates gamma non-standard format depth specifically in MTT. Complements turbo-mtt-grinder-hands which is more famous-hand-anchored. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "MTT ICM at the bubble — what the solver does at 60bb effective" card: tagline: "Deep-stack MTT ICM bubble mechanism — format depth + ICM" description: "MTT ICM at deeper effective stacks (50-80bb) is where ICM solver answers diverge most from chip-EV answers. Walk through a specific bubble spot at 60bb effective — what changes vs cash, what changes from shallow-stack ICM, what library tools precompute narrowly." status: proposed - id: plo5-vs-plo4-divergence taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [gamma] demonstrates: | Diversifies delta non-game coverage away from Squid. Demonstrates that QuintAce's training extends beyond NLHE / Squid / PLO4 into PLO5+. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "PLO5 vs PLO4 — where the strategy diverges" card: tagline: "Mechanism piece comparing PLO5 (5-card PLO) to standard PLO4" description: "PLO5 (5-card Pot-Limit Omaha) reshapes equity distributions vs PLO4. Walk through the solver-output divergence: ranges, sizings, postflop continuation. Mechanism piece anchored on a non-standard game the field is moving toward." status: proposed - id: bounty-mtt-strategy-shift taxonomy: anchor: A # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: delta # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Demonstrates delta non-standard game coverage in a format other than Squid/PLO. Bounty MTT is high-volume + under-studied; this is a high-distribution piece. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Bounty MTT — when the bounty changes the calculus" card: tagline: "Bounty MTT as its own game — solver strategy shifts vs vanilla MTT" description: "Progressive knockout bounty MTTs ARE a different game. Bounty value compounds chip-EV in ways standard MTT solvers do not model. Walk through how QuintAce's bounty-aware model returns different ranges and sizings than vanilla MTT — and where the field's intuition is most wrong." status: proposed - id: hcl-population-leak-audit taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Demonstrates Feature 2 + Feature 3 + Feature 4.4 (Who you'll face + What you're doing wrong + non-GTO best-response) — three Pro Strategy money levers in one piece. Partner-anchored (HCL). structure: catalog # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Reading the HCL field — population leaks vs solver baseline" card: tagline: "Population analysis of the HCL field anchored on QuintAce's exploit engine" description: "Audit of the HCL Live Stream regular field — population stats (VPIP, 3-bet, c-bet by position/stack/board) vs solver baseline. Identify the 5-7 leaks every reg in that field has. Partner-anchored exploit content, but the analysis transfers to similar live-streamed cash games." status: proposed - id: coin-poker-championship-deciders-regraded taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: epsilon # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Partner-anchored (Coin Poker), famous hand triggered, demonstrates exploit/decision-quality framing. Companion to the C-anchored all-in-ev-illusion. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Coin Poker Heads-Up Championship — re-grading the deciding hands" card: tagline: "Re-grade the SeaLlama (NLHE) and Yodogoki (PLO) championship-deciding hands by decision quality" description: "Extends all-in-ev-illusion from manifesto piece into partner-anchored hand-by-hand re-grading. Walk through the specific decisions where SeaLlama or Yodogoki's choices diverged from solver baselines, what the EV swing was, and what decision quality would have ranked them at." status: proposed - id: wpt-final-table-hand-of-week-pilot taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 2 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Three USPs in one structural piece: B partner + 2 topical + gamma MTT format. Highest distribution opportunity in the inventory (WPT alone has 10x the reach of any HCL piece). structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "WPT Final Table — Hand of the Week (pilot)" card: tagline: "Pilot for a recurring WPT Final Table series — biggest distribution gap in the inventory" description: "Pilot piece for a recurring weekly series. Pick the most-shareable hand from this week's WPT Final Table broadcast and solver-grade the key decision. WPT distribution + topical trigger + MTT format makes this the highest-distribution gap-filler in the queue." status: proposed - id: clubgold-big-antes-solver-graded taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Partner anchor (ClubGold/WPT Global) + gamma Big Ante format. Demonstrates that QuintAce's solver covers the formats ClubGold runs that no other tool serves. structure: range-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "ClubGold Big Antes — solver-graded mechanism" card: tagline: "ClubGold partnership piece on the Big Antes cash format" description: "Walk through Big Antes cash strategy on ClubGold — solver output across the specific ante structures ClubGold runs. Mechanism piece anchored on a partner where the format is the partner's draw." status: proposed - id: triton-madrid-biggest-decision taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace trigger: 1 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # alpha off-tree / beta multiway / gamma non-fmt / delta non-game / epsilon exploit / zeta methodology usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | Triton partnership anchor + gamma deep-stack MTT format + famous hand trigger. Triton has audience overlap with WPT/HCL but distinct distribution. structure: hand-analysis # hand-analysis / range-analysis / catalog format: prose # prose / comic status: proposed byline: "claim-me" working_title: "Triton Madrid — biggest decision of the festival" card: tagline: "Solver-graded recap of the highest-stakes hand from the Triton Madrid festival" description: "Triton festivals run high-roller fields with deep effective stacks. Walk through the most-discussed hand of Triton Madrid (recent festival) — solver verdict, where the EV was, where the field's intuition diverged. Format = MTT ICM at deep effective." status: proposed - id: spin-93o-bb-vs-limp taxonomy: anchor: B # A=ambassador / B=partner / C=quintace (WPT Global partnership) trigger: 3 # 1=famous / 2=topical / 3=mechanism / 4=series usp_primary: gamma # gamma = non-standard format (Spin not solvable by standard tools) usp_secondary: [] demonstrates: | WPT Global partner anchor + gamma Spin format. Demonstrates QuintAce native Spin support (game_mode_code: spin, rank-field ICM) on a format standard solvers cannot model. 93o BB vs SB limp at 16.3 BB as the illustrative example. Press/marketing content. structure: range-analysis format: prose status: review byline: QuintAce x WPT Global working_title: The Games You Can't Solve - Until Now (Spins) distribution: [quintace, wpt-global, press] coauthors: - name: WPT Global role: platform-partner card: tagline: Spin format, finally solved - 93o raises 58% from the BB, but never to 3 BB description: > Hyper speed, short uneven stacks, heads-up play reshape correct ranges in ways standard solvers miss. QuintAce handles Spin format natively. The example: 93 offsuit in the BB facing a SB limp at 16.3 BB - GTO raises 58% of the time, but only to 4 BB or 6 BB. The raise to 3 BB is the mistake most players make. Also covers Cash, MTT, PLO4 - all formats both QuintAce and WPT Global run. status: ready-for-review hook: It looks like tilt. It might be exactly the right play. article_folder: ad-hoc/articles/spin-93o-bb-vs-limp/ solver_output: ad-hoc/articles/spin-93o-bb-vs-limp/solve_163bb.out.json notes: > Capability section at bottom of article lists all shared formats - Cash, MTT, PLO4 are live on both QuintAce and WPT Global and highlighted in blue in the article.