When to Ignore Your Poker Calculator by Marty Smith
... This is one of those situations where my instincts guide me more than my poker calculator software, especially if you are seated near the maniac and you know you’re going to be heads up. Check the hand list below for hands that you can add to your tight-aggressive play. Holding most of these hands your poker calculator is going to be telling you to fold. Your strategy here should be to re-raise the maniac and get him heads up. Call down if you have to but let him know you won’t play dead, ...

Poker Calculator Wars Part 2: Poker Spy vs. Hold 'em Pirate by Marty Smith
... If you know about Poker-Spy their big selling feature is a hand analysis tool. I was using it for sometime when I discovered that there were some odd hands with astronomical win rates like 10,9os and 5,7s…even better than AA and AKs! I generally don’t play these hands so I went to do some further research. It seems that I won a couple of tournaments and sit and go’s and the final hand was some lame straight or 2 pair I backed into examples. Well those hands so skewed the analysis of my ...

Poker Calculator Report - Poker Charts for Your Game by Marty Smith
... This review goes deeper into our assistant software perspective, where not necessarily being a poker calculator, assistant software does certain and varied calculations for you, that allow you to improve your poker game. PokerCharts.com is such a service. Improving your poker game, whether it be holdem, omaha, stud, no limit, pot limit, casino ring games, or any other poker profit seeking venture, involves scrutiny on your part. The kind of scrutiny that analyzes your own game based on the ...

Hold'em Pirate Poker Calculator and the Use of the VPIP Meter by Marty Smith
... The nifty, quick glance, VPIP meter that is part of the Hold’em Pirate Poker Calculator software gives you a snapshot image that is designed to increase your probability of making money. This is simply my favorite empirical poker calculator (EPC) because the VPIP meter acts as an analyst of all the pertinent data, and thus, improves your decision making skills. With little doubt, you will now know if you are at the right table, in the right hand, and up against the right player.

Texas Holdem Tournament Strategy - Poker Tournament Betting Basics by Rick Braddy
... A poker odds calculator is a piece of add-on software that runs on your PC, monitoring your actual online play. A poker odds calculator computes the prospective hands you and your opponents are capable of drawing at any point in time. It then displays all possible hands you and the opponents could draw, teaching you what the odds of making that kind of hand would be. This makes it easy to see what's going on, and since a poker odds calculator displays the poker odds right there in front of ...