NEXA Poker’s Hand Review Is Now Live

NEXA Poker's Hand Review is powered by QuintAce's deep reinforcement learning solver, included free for every player. Here's how it works, what it covers, and what's coming next.

QuintAce Hand Review is a brand-new feature arriving on NEXA Poker, bringing solver-grade analysis of your own play directly into the app, free for every player.

When you finish a session, a prompt appears right at the table inviting you to open it up and go back through every hand you just played, each one graded by QuintAce. You can also reach it any time from the new button in your Profile. Every rating, every recommended action, every solver-backed alternative comes from the same deep reinforcement learning engine QuintAce builds for serious players, now in the hands of every NEXA Poker player.

This article walks through how that works, what the review covers, the technology behind it, and what's coming next as the integration deepens.

What QuintAce Hand Review does on NEXA Poker

Hand Review grades every meaningful decision you make in a hand and shows you what the solver would have done in your spot. You don't upload anything, you don't paste hand histories, you don't configure ranges. You play your hands, and the review is generated for you after your session.

Three things land in your account automatically:

• A rating on every meaningful decision you make (Solid, Close, or Lacking)
• An overview of how you're doing across positions, streets, actions, and situations
• The full action breakdown for each rated decision: every alternative action, the solver's recommended frequency for each, and how each one ranks by EV

Beyond the table prompt, you can open it any time from the QuintAce Hand Review button in your Profile menu (marked NEW).

Your overview

When you open Hand Review, the top of the page is your overview: a read on your game built from every reviewed decision, organized around four lenses that surface where you're strong and where the leaks are.

• By Position: Blinds, Early, Middle, Late. Where you play well and where you bleed chips. If your "Early" bar is mostly red, that's where you start studying.
• By Street: Pre-flop, Flop, Turn, River. The point in a hand where your decisions break down. Most players have one street that costs them disproportionately.
• By Action: Fold, Check, Call, Bet, Raise, 3-bet, 4-bet+. Tells you whether your worst decisions are the aggressive ones, the passive ones, or specific bet sizes.
• By Situation: RFI, vs Limp, vs Raise, vs 3-Bet pre-flop; first-to-act, vs Check, vs Bet, vs Raise post-flop. Tells you which kinds of spots are hurting you most.
   

Each bar is stacked: green for Solid, yellow for Close, red for Lacking. Hover for the exact percentage. Alongside the lenses, the overview surfaces a player archetype (a read of your style, for example "The Closer (Tight Aggressive)" or "The Caller (Loose Passive)"), your Total Hands and Analyzed Actions counts, and a Data Confidence indicator so you know how much trust to put in the read at your current sample size. You can scope it to All Time or to shorter windows to compare recent sessions against your baseline.

Which hands are reviewed

Every hand you play. On NEXA Poker, Hand Review covers your whole session with nothing skipped, so your overview and ratings reflect everything you did at the table, whatever cash game you were playing.

When you want to cut to the spots that matter, the filters do that job (see below), so you can go straight to the handful of hands that can move your win rate.

How your decisions are scored

Every meaningful decision in every reviewed hand gets rated. The rating reflects how your action compares to the solver's recommended play for that exact spot.

Inside a hand: the per-decision breakdown

Click into a hand from the feed and you get the full hand played out, every player's action listed in order across each street. For your opponents you see position and action; each of your own decisions also carries its rating. Expand any of yours into the Action Overview, the drill-down where most of the learning happens.

The Action Overview: Review and Explore

Expand a rated decision and the breakdown opens on two tabs, Review and Explore.

Review lays out every action you could have taken as a grid of cards. Each card shows:

• The action itself (Fold, Check, Call, a specific bet size, a raise size, all-in)
• The solver's recommended frequency for that action (for example 93%, 7%, 0%)
• An EV ranking, shown as a visual scale plus a label: Highest EV / High EV / Moderate EV / Low EV / Lowest EV
• A rating icon showing how that action would have scored if you'd taken it

The action you actually took is highlighted with the rating you received, and every top-bucket play carries the green Solid tick, so you can see at a glance whether your choice was one of the solver's preferred lines.

Above is a pre-flop decision rated Solid. You're in the big blind with K♠ K♥; after an early-position open and a call, you squeeze to a little under four times the open. The solver doesn't force one size here. It spreads its frequency across a smaller 2.8x, your 3.7x, a larger 10.1x, and even a 10.7x shove, and all four sit in the Highest EV bucket. Because the size you chose is one of those top-bucket plays, the decision grades Solid. Folding and calling are both 0%.

Explore steps out of your own hand and into the solver's entire strategy for the spot. Instead of just the actions for your two cards, you get the full range grid, every starting hand colored by what the solver does with it, plus a row of your exact suit combinations so you can pick the one you held and read its action mix underneath.

Explore is where the curious player goes to ask "what is the solver doing with everything else here," not just "what should I have done." The grid shows the whole range at a glance, and selecting your combo drops you back to the same frequency-and-EV read you get in Review.

Continuing the kings: the squeeze gets called and you are heads-up on a 9♥ 2♥ 7♣ flop. You bet about a third of the pot. The solver's most frequent line here is actually a check at 93%, but that small bet is also a Highest EV play, so it grades Solid, while a 75% bet on the same flop would have been Lacking. The caller raises, and with an overpair you jam. The solver puts 100% on the all-in, Highest EV, another Solid.

The chips go in on the flop, the turn and river run out, and the Results panel reports how it ended. Every decision in this hand graded Solid, and the player still lost the pot. Playing a spot perfectly and losing it anyway is exactly why the ratings and the result are kept apart.

Frequency vs EV: what the numbers tell you

Two pieces of data appear on every action card, and they answer different questions:

• Frequency (the percentage) tells you how often the solver recommends taking this exact action. 100% means a pure, always-do-this play. A mix like 70/30 means the solver wants you balancing two actions to disguise your range from observant opponents.
• EV ranking (Highest / High / Moderate / Low / Lowest) tells you how the EV of this action compares to the alternatives in this exact spot. EV is shown as a bucket rather than an exact number, because small differences usually don't change the right play. Two actions can both be 0% frequency, but one might be Low EV (a small mistake) and one might be Lowest EV (a serious one).

You don't need the math behind either. The rating, the frequency, and the EV ranking together tell you what you need: was your action a recommended one, how often is it right, and how bad is the mistake if it isn't.

Filtering your hand history

The overview aggregates across every hand. The feed itself can be sliced down to exactly what you want to study, using the Filters panel:

• Net Results: won or lost, measured in big blinds. Set a minimum, a maximum, or both, so you can pull just the big pots, or only the medium pots you lost.
• Position: Blinds, Early, Middle, Late
• Street: Pre-flop, Flop, Turn, River
• Action and situation: dynamic. Choosing a street updates these to fit it, since a preflop spot is a different decision from a flop one, so you can narrow down to the exact action and spot you were in.
• Rating: Solid, Close, Lacking

Combine them and you can drill all the way down to the precise spot you want to study, for example Lost, 50 BB and up, Flop, Bet, Lacking to see only the big flop pots you lost where your bet was the mistake.

Results vs ratings

That Results panel at the bottom of every hand is descriptive, not evaluative: it shows the chip outcome for every player, with your row highlighted. Whether your decisions were right lives in the Solid / Close / Lacking ratings and the overview that aggregates them. Win a hand with a bad call and that decision still rates Lacking; lose one with a correct fold and it still rates Solid. The Results panel tells you who took the pot. The ratings tell you how well you played.

The technology behind it

QuintAce runs on a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) solver, the same systems like AlphaGo. DRL produces solver-quality answers in seconds against the exact spot you played, with no pre-computed abstractions and no waiting. That's what lets Hand Review run on every meaningful decision without bottlenecking on solve time, and it's what lets coverage extend across the off-tree formats NEXA Poker runs where traditional CFR solvers stop working.

Paired with the solver is Quint coach. The solver gives you the math; Quint gives you the why, in plain English, adapted to your level, with follow-up questions welcome on any hand.

For the deeper breakdown of why a DRL solver is a different engine from the CFR solvers most products use, see How Poker Solvers Actually Work.

What's coming next

The current Hand Review feature is the first phase of a deeper integration. Rolling out over the coming months:

• Leak Review across all hands, surfacing the patterns costing you the most over hundreds of hands rather than one hand at a time.
• Decision Analysis, where Quint explains a decision in plain English, walking you through what happened and why one action beat another.
• Practice This Spot (Drills), pulling hands tied to a specific leak so you can drill it until the rating mix improves.
• Coach voices on selected hands, named coaching personalities and NEXA Poker ambassadors adding the reasoning on top of the solver verdict on the hands that matter most.
• Weekly hand breakdowns drawn from real NEXA Poker sessions, plus format-specific lessons on the games NEXA Poker runs.

This article will be updated as those features go live.