What RangeIQ Teaches
Most poker education focuses on game-theory-optimal play — the strategy designed to be unexploitable against perfect opponents. That makes sense in high-stakes online play where your opponents study the same solvers you do. At a live $1/$3 or $2/$5 table, the situation is fundamentally different. Your opponents have consistent, repeatable tendencies that a balanced strategy deliberately ignores. RangeIQ is built around the opposite approach: identify what each opponent does wrong, then calculate the most profitable way to punish it.
This is called exploitative poker strategy, and it produces significantly higher win rates in live cash games than pure GTO play. The reason is straightforward: when your opponent folds too much, bluffing more is profitable. When they call too much, value betting larger is profitable. When they bluff too often, calling down wider is profitable. GTO ignores these tendencies by design. Exploitative play targets them directly.
The 9 Opponent Types
RangeIQ organizes live opponents into nine distinct profiles, each with specific tendencies the engine exploits. Learning to recognize these types is the foundation of profitable live play.
- NitPremium hands only. Folds to almost any pressure.
- TAGTight, balanced, respects strong lines.
- LAGWide range, high bluff frequency.
- Young Aggro3-bets relentlessly. Barrels all three streets.
- Loose PassiveCalls wide passively. Rarely raises.
- Calling StationCalls everything. Never folds to reasonable bets.
- ManiacAggression off the charts. Bluffs constantly.
- RecreationalUnpredictable. Wide passive with random aggression.
- UnknownPopulation average until you have a read.
Each opponent type carries a complete behavioral profile inside the engine: VPIP, aggression frequency, fold-to-bet rates on every street, and bluff frequency. When you select an opponent type, the engine calculates the mathematically optimal counter-strategy for that exact set of tendencies. You get a specific dollar-amount recommendation, a confidence score, and an IQ Reasoning explanation of why that play is correct.
How the Training Works
RangeIQ is a study and training tool designed for use between poker sessions. You bring in the hands that mattered from your last session, pick the opponent type you were facing, and get the engine’s recommendation in exact dollars with a full explanation of the logic. Over time, this builds durable poker intuition — the kind that transfers to new spots you have never specifically studied.
Exploit Analyzer
The core tool. Enter any hand — your cards, the board, positions, pot size, and what the opponent did — then select the opponent type. The engine returns the highest-EV action in dollars, not abstract frequencies. A $1/$3 player sees “Bet $18” instead of “bet 60% pot at 0.73 frequency.” Every recommendation includes IQ Reasoning — a plain-English explanation locked to the engine math that tells you why the play is correct against this specific opponent type.
Daily Exploit Drills
Five-minute focused training sessions. Each drill presents a realistic hand scenario against a specific opponent type and asks you to choose the best action. After answering, you see the engine’s recommendation, the IQ Reasoning, and how your answer compares. Drills cover preflop through river decisions across all nine opponent types, building pattern recognition through repetition.
Range Builder
Build preflop ranges that adapt to position, game situation, and opponent type. The range builder shows which hands to open, which to 3-bet, and which to fold — adjusted for whether you are facing a Nit who folds to pressure or a Maniac who 3-bets everything. Each range comes with a text summary explaining the strategic reasoning.
IQ Reasoning: The Teaching Engine
Most training tools tell you what to do. RangeIQ also explains why. IQ Reasoning is a proprietary coaching layer that translates every engine recommendation into plain-English exploit logic. The math locks the answer. IQ Reasoning explains it.
This distinction matters for learning. Memorizing a chart tells you what to do in one specific spot. Understanding the reasoning tells you what to do in every similar spot. After reviewing fifty hands with IQ Reasoning, you stop thinking in numbers and start thinking in patterns: Calling Station on a dry board means size up for value. Nit on a scary board means a small bet prints fold equity. Maniac in position means bet your strong hands and let them pay you off.
What You Will Learn
RangeIQ’s education library covers the full spectrum of live cash game strategy. Each topic is taught through interactive tools, worked hand examples, and strategy articles.
Bet Sizing Strategy
How to size bets against each opponent type for maximum profit. When to go big, when to go small, and why standard sizing leaves money on the table.
Browse strategy articles →Node-Locking Simplified
The most powerful concept in modern poker study, made accessible. Pin down what your opponent does wrong, then calculate how to punish it.
Read the explainer →Building Poker Intuition
Why memorizing solver outputs fails at live tables, and how explanation-based learning builds durable decision-making that works under pressure.
Read about IQ Reasoning →Live Cash Game Blueprint
Why pure GTO fails at $1/$2 and $2/$5 tables. Real opponent tendencies mapped to the exploit adjustments that capture the most money.
Read the blueprint →Exploiting Player Types
Step-by-step case studies showing how to exploit Calling Stations, Nits, and Maniacs with side-by-side GTO vs exploit comparisons.
Read the case studies →25 Real Hand Examples
Full hand breakdowns with IQ Reasoning explanations. Browse by opponent type: flop, turn, and river decisions against every profile.
Browse the Exploit Library →Who This Is For
RangeIQ is designed for live cash game players at $1/$2, $1/$3, $2/$5, and $5/$10 stakes who want to improve between sessions. The typical user plays two to four sessions per week, reviews hands afterward, and wants a faster path to improvement than traditional solver study or coaching.
If you are:
- A live cash player who knows your opponents have leaks but is not sure how to exploit them systematically
- Someone who tried GTO solvers and found them too complex or abstract for live table decisions
- A winning player who wants to increase their win rate by targeting specific opponent tendencies
- A recreational player ready to transition from intuition-based to data-informed decisions
Then this education platform and these training tools are built specifically for you.
How to Get Started
RangeIQ offers a free tier that includes unlimited preflop analysis, two postflop spots a day, and IQ Reasoning explanations on every recommendation — no credit card required. The free tier is designed to let you experience the training methodology and see how exploitative analysis differs from GTO-based tools before deciding whether to upgrade.
The Pro tier ($14.99/month or $119/year) unlocks unlimited postflop analysis, all nine opponent archetypes, unlimited daily drills, the complete range builder, the study vault for saving analyzed hands, and the leak hunter for identifying patterns in your decision-making over time.
Start with one hand from your last session. Pick the opponent you were facing. Read the recommendation and the reasoning. If the logic clicks — if you find yourself understanding why that sizing against that opponent type makes mathematical sense — you have found your study method.