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If you’re serious about poker, there are a few must-have types of poker software / poker

tools.

Whether you play online4️⃣ or live, these tools can help take your game to the next

level so you can maximize your winnings and4️⃣ rise up in stakes.

In this article, I am

going to review the three most important types of poker tools and4️⃣ poker software on the

market. These include:

Equity calculators for reviewing specific hands you play.

Database software for tracking your hands4️⃣ and stats (as well as the hands and stats of

your opponents). Solvers for in-depth poker studying.

I’ll go over the4️⃣ function of each

type of poker software and share links to the best ones available.

Let’s begin!

Equity

Calculators

The most well-known equity4️⃣ calculators are: PokerStove (free)

Flopzilla

($25)

Equilab (free)

PokerRanger ($79) If you’d like to calculate equity on the go,

check out Poker Cruncher4️⃣ ($12.99) on the Apple Store or Google Play Store. There’s also

a free version of Cruncher that is restricted to4️⃣ preflop calculations only.

These are

relatively basic pieces of software, but their uses are powerful and fundamental to the

game.

With an4️⃣ equity calculator, you can discover how much equity a hand (or a range of

hands) has against another hand (or4️⃣ range of hands). This can be done as a preflop

match up (e.g. AKo vs 55) or on a given4️⃣ board.

For example, suppose you’re holding A♥

A♣ on a J♠ 8♣ 3♦ flop and your opponent goes all-in forR$100 into4️⃣ aR$100 pot. Based on

your pot odds, you need at least 33.3% equity to breakeven on a call.

After estimating

your4️⃣ opponent’s range, you can use an equity calculator to find out if your hand has

enough equity to call (I’ll4️⃣ use Equilab for this example). Let’s say you think his

range for going all-in is a set, an open-ended straight4️⃣ draw, or a strong top pair

(QJ+). Here’s what that range looks like when inputted into Equilab:

Now, you can input

4️⃣ the board and your hand and run the calculation:

Looks like your aces have 65.32%

equity versus the estimated range. That’s4️⃣ well above the 33.3% needed to breakeven, so

this is a slam-dunk call.

Extra Features of Equity Calculators

Some equity calculators

have4️⃣ other features as well.

Flopzilla, for example, automatically calculates how often

a range will hit on the flop. In other words,4️⃣ it shows you exactly how frequently a

specific range will flop top pair, middle pair, a straight draw, etc.

The above4️⃣ image

comes from Flopzilla and demonstrates how much the given range connects with the board

to make certain hands.

All in4️⃣ all, equity calculators are very useful, especially for

new players. They give you the chance to develop an intuition of4️⃣ how much equity

hands/ranges have in certain situations.

Database Software

Database software is the

most powerful tool at your disposal. They have4️⃣ three main functions:

Tracking hands you

play.

Calculating statistics.

Offering a heads-up display (HUD) of your opponents’

statistics.

Database software provides the framework for4️⃣ your poker study, making them

absolutely crucial for online players (assuming your site allows them). They make it

easy to4️⃣ review your own play and discover leaks in your strategy.

Calculating you and

your opponents’ statistics is another important feature of4️⃣ database software. By

analyzing these stats, you can spot trends in your own strategy or your opponents’

strategies.

The other main4️⃣ function of trackers is the HUD (heads-up display), which

displays your opponents’ stats while playing. This is probably the most4️⃣ misused

functions of the three. Inexperienced HUD users often make big adjustments to their

strategy based on very small samples4️⃣ of hands, which can lead to costly mistakes.

The

numbers near each player in the photo above each represent a different4️⃣ stat, such as

the percentage of the time that they raise preflop. You can customize the HUD to

include whatever4️⃣ statistics you prefer.

Note: I recently wrote an article regarding the

must-have statistics on your HUD. You can check it out4️⃣ here.

Solvers

The most used and

well-known solvers are: PioSolver

Simple Postflop

Monker Solver

GTO+ The costs and

benefits of each solver varies quite a4️⃣ bit, so you should research each before choosing

one. (If you’d like a recommendation from an Upswing staff member, ask4️⃣ us in a comment

below this article.)

Solvers are the best way to learn about Game Theory Optimal (GTO)

poker strategy.4️⃣ The first publicly available solver, PioSolver, which is also the most

used, came out back in 2024. Their existance has4️⃣ drastically changed the way poker

strategy is understood.

Solvers provide the user with Nash equilibrium strategies

(called ‘solutions’) based on certain4️⃣ variables, which the user inputs. These inputs

include:

Preflop ranges involved

Pot size

Effective stack size

Bet size(s) on flop,

turn and river

Raise size(s)4️⃣ on flop, turn and river

A solver basically does an

enormous amount of simulations, trying out different strategies against each other,

4️⃣ with the premise that each player knows the other player’s exact strategy.

This way,

after a godly amount of calculations, the4️⃣ strategies reach equilibrium, meaning neither

player can improve their strategy against the opposing strategy any further.

(Note that

this doesn’t mean4️⃣ that this is the most profitable strategy against any player. If you

know your opponent’s specific weaknesses, you can adjust4️⃣ the solver’s “GTO” strategy to

win even more.)

An important feature of the solvers is the Nodelock function. This

basically grants4️⃣ the user the power to freeze a certain strategy in a part of the game

tree. The solver recalculates the4️⃣ appropriate response to that strategy. In other

words, the Nodelock feature allows you to figure out how to adjust versus4️⃣ a player’s

specific weaknesses.

On paper it would seem that a solver would grant a player a

knowledge of an invincible4️⃣ strategy — the ultimate dream of many players. In practice,

however, the solutions are very often extremely hard to follow4️⃣ due to hyper-mixing of

decisions.

For example, check out this solver-generated range from a past article for

an A♠ 8♦ 3♠4️⃣ flop:

As you can see, every hand in the range checks some of the time and

bets the rest of the4️⃣ time — all at seemingly arbitrary frequencies. These strategies

are not reproducible by us humans — they’re just too complicated4️⃣ to memorize and

execute.

However, they provide the user with some insight into what a strong strategy

looks like in different4️⃣ situations. You can study the solver’s solutions in order to

spot trends, which you can use to create a solid4️⃣ fundamental strategy, especially for

flop situations.

Solvers have other powerful features as well, depending on which one

you use, but all4️⃣ of them are mainly used in the way described above.

Final Thoughts on

Poker Tools & Poker Software

If you want to4️⃣ play poker online and be competitive, these

pieces of software will help you tremendously. Even if you only play live,4️⃣ you can use

equity calculators and solvers to learn more about the game. I use all of them

frequently and4️⃣ I wholeheartedly suggest you start using them too.

That’s all for

now!

If you want some more information or recommendations about poker4️⃣ software feel

free to leave a comment in the comment section down below and I’ll do my best to

answer.

Want4️⃣ to make sure you’re avoiding costly mistakes with the best hand in

Hold’em? Read 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Playing4️⃣ Pocket Aces.

Till’ next time, good luck,

grinders!

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