Poker Tools

Here is some poker tools you may find useful:

The Basics

• Hold’emManager – This new generation poker tracking software is a must-have for any serious poker players. Powerful reporting, robust database access, as well as HUD and graphs. For more info (and a custom HUD), see my Hold’em Manager Category.

Hand Converters & Pastebins

• PokerHand.org – Paste your hand histories and share the URLs for all to see

• WeakTight Hand Converter – Converts your hands to post on blogs and forums
• Leggo Hand Converter – Another converter for blog and forum posts

AHK Scripts

Automates some of the repetitive tasks in poker.

• AutoHotKey.com – get the program
• AHK Wiki – collection of all AHK scripts

Datamining and Table Selection

• FT Table Opener – Opens Full Tilt ring game tables based on your options (stakes, players, avg pot size, etc.). Makes datamining easy while you’re away, and you can set it up on multiple computers. (note: this software now costs $25)
• hhSmithey – Monthly datamining service. You subscribe and receive daily poker hands by email. Supports Party and FTP.
• hhDealer – Monthly and bulk datamining service. Either get daily hands emailed, or make one-time bulk purchases. Supports a lot of sites. It’s more expensive than hhSmithey, but you get a lot more hands per day.

Calculators

• PokerStove – Calculates equities of hand ranges for Hold’em. Basically a standard tool for everyone now.
• Twodimes.net – Onlineversion of PStove. Also supports multiple games.
• ProPokerTools Simulator – This is a pretty amazing simulator. Works like PStove, except it also supports Omaha, O8, and Razz. Also, you can hit the Graph button and see an equity graph of each range over % of flops. For example, put in AA vs 44 and hit Graph, you’ll see that AA basically has 90% equity on 80% of the flops, but 10% of the flops 44 has 85% equity. I’m not sure how to use this yet, but it might be useful to see how often your call will result in a situation you’ll like.
• 4 Bet Preflop EV Calculator – Calculate your EV of 4-betting given opponent’s range and the money in the pot. Will probable become more useful as I move up.
• Poker Results Calculator – Wondering if you’re a winning player? Put in your info and this will build a winrate range based on your info using statistics. The red lines are the upper and lower bounds, green is your mean, and the black line is a simulation of how somebody with your stats could be running.

Sweating

• Skype – VOIP. Sign up for a free account and you can chat with friends using a mic.
• Mikogo – Free desktop sharing application. Up to 10 people can view your desktop in real time. Also available as a Skype Extra here.

Table Mods

Eye candy while you’re on the grind.

• Poker-Layout – A collection of free mods for many poker sites.
• Full Tilt Poker Mods Wiki – a lot of great free mods, plus links to many more. Full Tilt only.
• TiltBuster – A site that sells mods for Stars, UB, FTP, Absolute, and Party. Not free, but their prices are pretty good.