Poker in 2020 is close to a solved game. Limit hold’em bots can crush the best human opponents, and through software like solvers, even many spots in no limit hold’em are close to solved from the game theory optimal perspective. Add in Independent Chip Model (ICM) theory and range analyzers, and it’s clear the poker world has never had more “answers” at its fingertips.
But there’s still one area of tournament poker that is far from solved - progressive knockout tournaments (PKO). While PKOs follow the same format as most freezeout games, the added wrinkle of bounties changes the math enough that old tournament rules no longer apply.