Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Poker odds Caculator.

One of the things that I always use when playing Poker is Tournament Indicator. This tool is especially helpful if you like to multi-table and can't keep your eyes on all of the action.

Tournament Indicator works in STT's and MTT's which is perfect for myself because those are the games I play. It is equipped to help you make the right decisions if you use the information it provides correctly.

The feature that I tend to use the most is the VPIP reference. This calculates how often that player voluntarily puts chips in the pot. This is important because it is one of the key factors that determine what kind of player this person is. There are a number of different categories a player can fall into. These profiling icons are;



 Calling Station (Loose, Passive)  
 Gambler (Loose, Aggressive) 
 Tight, Aggressive 
 Rock (Tight, Passive) 
 Neutral, Neutral 
 Neutral, Aggressive 
 Neutral, Passive 
 Loose, Neutral 
Tight, Neutral 
 After 20 hands, Tournament Indicator still can't profile this player as one of the icons above.
 Not sure yet. Not enough hands or data to categorize this player. 

Even just these can help considerably when determining how to play against a certain player. But thats not all the Tournament Indicator can help you with. They are all caculated using a number of statistics that you can view whilst playing. They are;

VPIP which has already been discussed, 

PFR which measures how often a player raises pre-flop, 

3-Bet measures how often a player raises against an intial raise pre-flop
          - the/F refers to how often a player folds to a 3-bet after raising pre-flop

Steal measures how often a player raises in an unopened pot pre-flop from late position or SB     - the /F measures how often a player folds when facing a steal.

AF - Is the Aggression Factor measures how aggresive or passive a player is. If a player never calls and only raises the AF will be Inf. meaning infinite.
                            AF = (Raise% + Bet %) / Call %
These will show as Green for aggresive, Black for neutral and Red for passive. 


CBet measure how often a player Continuation bets on the flop after a pre-flop raise.
       -the /F referring to how often a player folds to a continuation bet.

WSD shows how often a player went to showdown when playing a hand. It shows green for solid players and red for those that usually go to the end if they are in hand.
        - The /W gives a percentage of how often that player wins when going to showdown.


Net shows the amount a player has won or lost in the last ten hands.

Streak shows how many they have won or lost in a row.

 


As you can see below. Tournament Indicator also caculates your win and pot odds in game to help you make the correct decisions. It also shows your current Mzone postion which is  the ratio of your stack to the blinds and antes. Letting you re-adjust you game and change your starting hand selection accourdingly. Not only does it cacualte your Mzone but everyones at the table so you can understand their situation and the plays they are making.

MZone = (Table Stacks) / ((BB + SB) + (Ante * Number of players))








All of the things that Tournament Indicator does can be done by yourself but it saves you the time of doing that. Most people who play seriously use a Poker Odds Caculator so you should be too. It'll even the score against those players and give you an advantage against those that don't yet use one. When purchased in comes with a lifetime warranty so that you will be safe in the knowledge that all your upgrades in the future are free.


Other features that come along with the program are a Heads Up Display (HUD) which make the stats easily viewable, this can be edited to show the stats you'd like and Tournament Indicator also comes with a hand replayer that you can use to analyse your games afterwards to further refine your game.





There are three ways to acquire Tournament Indicator;



1 comment:

  1. Wow this thing sounds awesome, im totally signing up

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