In short: measures whether your calls with small and medium pairs had enough stack to hunt a set and whether the money extracted when you hit covered the attempts.
Plan: Pro 🔒
What enters the study
The scope uses 6-max cash-game hands where you called a preflop raise with:
- Small pairs: 22–77.
- Medium pairs: 88–TT.
JJ+ stays outside because it belongs to a different kind of preflop decision. All-in calls are also kept separate: once all the money is in, the decision depends on immediate equity rather than implied odds.
How the math works
For every call, the study compares:
- the price paid;
- the effective stack left behind;
- how often a set appeared on the flop;
- how much you won or lost from that call onward;
- how much you extracted when you hit;
- how much more you invested when you missed.
The 7.5× ruler represents the clean return needed to cover the probability. The 10× ruler is the conservative filter used by the study: below 7.5× the call has insufficient stack, from 7.5× to 10× it is borderline, and above 10× it has a healthy stack.
How to read the screen
- Open Study → Pocket Pairs.
- Compare small and medium pairs. Medium pairs stay separate because they can win without a set.
- Review each call type: blind defense, cold call, overcall, call versus a 3-bet, and call after another re-raise.
- Check whether your set frequency is inside the expected statistical range.
- In the audit, filter calls with insufficient or borderline stacks and click Review to open the hand over the study.
What the verdict does not claim
“Healthy stack” only says enough chips were available to seek future return. It does not claim the call is GTO, cannot know the opponent's range by itself, and does not turn observed results into EV. The comparison becomes more useful as the sample grows.