GTO Wizard

Deep on Day 4 of the WSOP $1,500 Millionaire Maker, only 13 players remained from a massive 11,769-entry field. With huge pay jumps on the horizon, most players would tighten up, but Halford Fairchild and Garry Gurevich did the exact opposite. The two locked horns in an incredible dynamic. Gurevich fired a multi-street bluff with just pocket deuces, while Fairchild laid a trap with a flopped Broadway straight.

If you mostly play online poker, live tournaments can feel like a completely different game. One of the biggest adjustments? Open sizing. While online players have largely settled on smaller opens between 2x and 2.5x, live tournament fields still love making it 3x preflop, especially at lower and mid-stakes buy-ins. But how much should you actually change your strategy against those bigger sizings?

Folding pocket nines at a final table rarely feels comfortable, especially when stacks are shallow and pay jumps are looming. But in high-pressure ICM spots, even strong hands can become marginal. WPT Global streamer Lukas “RobinPoker” Robinson used GTO Wizard to analyse a tricky preflop decision from a 2026 $10,300 GGMillion$ Final Table, where Fahredin Mustafov opened with pocket nines and faced a three-bet from the small blind. The hand raised several key questions.