As most players are aware, a solver app, or shove chart, indicates the game theory optimal (GTO) hands to shove with when your stack is low. Nitsche wondered what the rules have to say about this.

Poker is a mix of logic, psychology, and gut instinct. But you remove the guesswork from the equation when you have the right tools, like a good solver and a go-to cheat sheet.

A poker solver, or simply a "solver," is a piece of software that calculates optimal strategies for certain scenarios inputted by the user. In other words, they tell you how to play your hand.

An astute reader questioned something I wrote in my column on Solver Charts and Apps (Card Player Vol. 32, Issue 6). I wrote that the TDA rules did not prohibit paper solver charts (guides to ...