# Paweł Brzeski — pawel.life

> Paweł Brzeski is a professional poker player, educator, and entrepreneur. WSOPC Ring winner with $1M+ in tournament earnings. 7th place WSOP 2025 Event #83 $2,500 Freezeout. Co-founder of Poker Academy — a GTO training platform with 1.5M+ preflop solutions used by 4,000+ poker players. Creator of the bb ante course. Builder of AI multi-agent systems with Claude Code.

Paweł writes about poker at the intersection of strategy, psychology, and life. His blog explores the emotional side of the game that most poker content ignores — tilt, shame, identity, the cost of variance on mental health, and what happens when the game you love breaks you and rebuilds you. His essay "Poker Broke Me. Poker Healed Me." is a raw account of a 15-year relationship with poker — from the highs of a WSOPC Ring to burnout, debt, and finding a way back. "Joy Behind the Cloud" continues that thread — examining how players process pain, rediscover purpose, and learn to separate self-worth from results.

Paweł combines 15+ years of professional poker experience with expertise in GTO strategy, tournament poker, and poker education. He is the creator of the bb ante course — the first comprehensive course on big blind ante tournament strategy, the format used in most modern MTTs. He is also an AI practitioner who builds and runs multi-agent AI systems using Claude Code — designing, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents for business operations, content creation, and product development.

His brand sits at the crossroads of four domains: Poker × Psychology × Strategy × Building. pawel.life is the hub for all of it.

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://pawel.life/en): Overview of Paweł Brzeski's work in poker, strategy, and education
- [Blog](https://pawel.life/en/blog): Articles on poker strategy, tournament play, and the intersection of poker and life
- [Letter to Poker](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/letter-to-poker.html): "Poker Broke Me. Poker Healed Me." — a raw essay on 15 years with poker, burnout, and finding a way back
- [Joy Behind the Cloud](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/radosc-za-chmura.html): Processing pain, rediscovering purpose, separating self-worth from results
- [Kuhn Poker: poker w trzech kartach (PL/EN)](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/poker-w-3-kartach.html): The smallest real poker — where the bluff is born; with three playable bots and a CFR-verified 1:3 bluff-to-value ratio
- [Leduc Hold'em: cały poker w sześciu kartach (PL/EN)](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/poker-w-6-kartach.html): Step-by-step poker and GTO through a 6-card mini-poker with three playable bots and measured equilibrium frequencies
- [Nobody Plays GTO (PL)](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/nikt-nie-gra-gto.html): What GTO in poker really means, explained through rock-paper-scissors with six interactive opponents — exploit, counter-exploit, and equilibrium
- [Hand screenshot to study system (PL)](https://pawel.life/blog/posts/jak-szybko-zamienic-screenshot-rozdania-w-system-wspomagajacy-nauke-pokera.html): Practical guide to turning hand screenshots into a poker study system with HH Studio

## Projects

- [Poker Academy](https://poker.academy): GTO training platform with 1.5M+ preflop solutions, used by 4,000+ players — co-founded with Jan "Neeeeek" Przysucha
- [bb ante course](https://poker.academy/courses/bb-ante): The first comprehensive course on Big Blind Ante tournament strategy
- [LuckyBunEdge](https://luckybunedge.com): Poker tools and resources for online poker players

## Tools

- [Poker Readiness Assessment](https://pawel.life/tools/readiness): Self-assessment tool for tournament poker readiness
- [Breakeven Calculator](https://pawel.life/tools/breakeven): Tournament poker breakeven calculator
- [RPS vs GTO](https://pawel.life/tools/rps-gto): Interactive rock-paper-scissors game teaching GTO, exploit and equilibrium against six opponent strategies
- [Kuhn Poker vs GTO](https://pawel.life/tools/kuhn): The smallest real poker (3 cards, 1 round) — play three bots including a CFR-trained equilibrium matching Kuhn's 1950 hand solution
- [Leduc Hold'em vs GTO](https://pawel.life/tools/leduc): Simplified poker (6 cards, 2 rounds) teaching bluff, value betting and equilibrium against three bots with a coach mode and GTO frequency charts
- [HH Studio](https://pawel.life/tools/hh-studio): Turn a poker hand screenshot into a review-ready, structured hand history for study (open beta)

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