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Load a solution

Where the free heads-up set lives, how a pack installs, and what the sizes mean for your tablet.

You can find a solution for the game you play and have it loaded in Study.

  • Poker Assistant open to the Solutions tab, as in Start here.
Screenshot of the Solutions library, where every free and installed structure appears in one filterable list.
This is the library once packs enter the picture. Some rows are free, some are a purchase.

Before you start

The free heads-up set is the first thing that loads onto a fresh install, and it is already in your library if you followed Start here. Everything past two-handed play comes from a pack: a fixed bundle of solved spots for one table size and one structure. This lesson covers the rest of the library: how to filter it, and what a pack’s size on disk actually buys you.

Find a solution

  1. Open the Solutions tab and set the player-count filter above the list to the table size you play, from 2-handed up to 9-handed.
Screenshot of the solution library filtered to two-handed structures, listing every heads-up stack depth in that filter.
The player-count filter narrows the full library down to the structures you play.
  1. Scan the filtered rows for the stack depth and structure that matches your game. Core covers 3 to 6 handed from 15bb to 100bb with no ante; Core Rake, Core Ante and Core Straddle cover the same seats with a different structure applied. Push/Fold covers 3 to 9 handed from 8bb to 12bb, for the short-stack game on its own.
  2. Select a row you do not already own. The detail pane names its structure and, once installed, its size on disk.
  3. Leave the filter on Any players if you play more than one table size. The unfiltered list groups every ring and deepstack pack by stack depth, so a wider game is one scroll away.

Install a pack

  1. Tap Install on a pack’s detail pane and wait for the download. Packs are big because they are complete: the free Heads-Up set is 7 MB, and Core, which covers 3 to 6 handed play from 15bb to 100bb, is 763 MB.
Screenshot of the installed packs tab, showing six pack cards each with a revision number.
Installed packs list their size on disk, from 5 MB up to Core's 763 MB.
  1. Check a 9-handed pack’s stack depth before you buy it on Android: a single 60bb cell of that structure is 1.64 GB, over Google Play’s 1.5 GB cap, so the 9-handed pack there stops at 40bb, and the 60bb and 100bb cells ship as a separate pack on iPadOS and macOS. Once it finishes downloading, the pack moves to the Installed tab with its size and revision.
  2. Treat the purchase as a one-time cost. A pack is a fixed set of solved spots and does not change after you buy it, so the strategy you study this month is the strategy you have next month too; the app itself keeps updating for free.
  3. If you reinstall the app, open Settings and use Restore purchases to bring back what you already own, without paying for it twice.
Screenshot of the Settings dialog's Purchases section with the Restore purchases control.
Tap Restore purchases and the account re-checks what it already bought, on any device.

Read the result

A loaded solution is what turns the Study screen from empty to a spot you can read: the library entry becomes the grid and the ladder for every seat in that structure. The heads-up set covers two-handed play at every stack depth for free; a pack buys the same coverage for a bigger table, priced by how much it solved rather than by the game.

Pick the smallest pack that covers the table size and stakes you actually sit at. A 763 MB Core install is wasted if you only ever play heads-up, and a 40bb 9-handed pack will not cover a 100bb table on Android.

Size on disk tracks coverage: a pack that spans more stack depths and structures is bigger, at the same speed and precision as a smaller one. Once it is installed, loading it into Study works exactly the way the free heads-up set did in Start here.

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