Calculatem Pro is a poker odds calculator that gives one of the widest range of real time poker odds available as you play online as well as betting advice based on these odds.
I think the real advantage of this tool is its ability to fast track an understanding of hand strength and what that hand strength means in terms of betting action. By having the odds displayed while you play with betting recommendations, you can start to hone your understanding of whether a hand is strong enough to come out betting with or is better to muck and wait for a better opportunity
- Attaches to your poker table to give real time odds and betting advice.
- Includes a wide range of real time poker odds including win odds, pot odds and your outs.
- Displays the odds of drawing to different types of hands or the best hand. These odds are displayed on both the turn and the river.
- Shows real time betting advice based on your win odds, pot odds and position.
- The betting advice is configurable so you can tighten or loosen the advice both-post flop, pre-flop and based on position
- Shows metrics of pre-flop hand strength such as your Sklansky hand group and your hand's rank based on its strength on either the river or the flop.
Calculatem Pro provides a wide range of poker odds from win odds to pot odds as well as the odds of drawing to various hands on both the turn and the river. In terms of win odds, you can see the odds that you will have the best hand at the river, but will also see the odds of the best hand on the turn. Additionally, you can see the odds that you will draw to different types of hands (e.g. flush, full house or straight) by the river or by the turn. This presentation of odds on either the turn or the river is quite unique and allows some quite detailed reasoning when comparing these odds to your pot odds.
It is often good to compare your odds of drawing to the best hand to your pot odds to see if a call is justified. If your odds of winning are 1:3 but a call in relation to the pot size is 1:4, in the long run you stand to win more by making the call than folding. You will win once for every three times you loose, but when you win, you will win four times what it cost to call, so overall you should be making a profit. A problem here comes when looking at these odds on the flop. You might miss your cards on the turn and then have to call another bet to have the chance to hit by the river. The tool will allow you to compare your odds of having the best hand or drawing on the river or the turn to your pot odds to help enable some more advanced decision making in this situation.
Having betting advice like this should be valuable for new players to start to get a feel for how far you should be taking different strengths of hands, therefore accelerating the learning curve when you start hitting the real money tables. I think at some stage you will want to take the training wheels off as you move up the limits and start to act more independently from the advice given. Good players incorporate many elements beyond hand strength into their play such as exploiting the weaknesses of their opposition or finding opportune moments to bluff or steal the pot for example. However, attempting to focus too heavily on such elements before your have a good grasp of the strength of your hand and what this means in terms of general betting advice will however result in slow progress and a lot of costly mistakes.
You can get a free 1 year license to Calculatem Pro when you sign up and make a deposit to a new poker room through the links on the Calculatem Pro site, or alternatively can buy the license directly. So I encourage you to take a look at their site to get a bit more insight into how this tool might improve your play.
