Recommendations for Poker Drills/Training Software

[RedIvan064]

I'd like to drill myself on certain elementary Hold'em tasks like figuring the nuts after the flop, counting outs, calculating probability to make a hand, and figuring pot odds. Of course a number of poker simulation programs offer some of these functions. I have Poker Academy which is quite good, but I'm looking for something more of a "flashcard" kind of concept so I can just run through a number of exercises quickly. Has anyone seen such a program?

[Dazarath]

I've never tried such software, but I'd imagine that even playing 0.02/0.04 online would be a better "trainer", and it'd cost less too.

[RedIvan064]

Thanks for taking time to respond. Playing poker is obviously important to improving as a poker player.

But I'm looking for exercises on counting outs, calculating probabilities and pots odds, etc. You don't get immediate feedback from playing on whether you've done those tasks correctly.

Improvement at any endeavor takes both basic skill training and competitive practice. Baseball players do fielding drills, chess players memorize pawn endgames, and I'm sure poker is no different.

[jukofyork]

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Thanks for taking time to respond. Playing poker is obviously important to improving as a poker player.

But I'm looking for exercises on counting outs, calculating probabilities and pots odds, etc. You don't get immediate feedback from playing on whether you've done those tasks correctly.

Improvement at any endeavor takes both basic skill training and competitive practice. Baseball players do fielding drills, chess players memorize pawn endgames, and I'm sure poker is no different.

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The nearest thing available is to quiz yourself on the exercises/hands available in poker books (SSHE and ITH have good examples/quizzes for limit).

You can also quiz yourself on hands posted in these forums and see if you agree with what other posters write.

As far as I know their is no decent software which will help you do this (yet).

Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[kidpokeher]

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I'm looking for something more of a "flashcard" kind of concept

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How about some flashcards? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[RedIvan064]

LOL. But I'm looking for a software solution--that's why I posted my question in the "Software" topic.

I read a poor review of those cards, by the way. Sounded like you would be better off sitting down with a deck of cards, paper and pencil. I might resort to that yet, or else write the software myself.

[JackStrap]

Hi RedIvan, i'm working in open software that will be very close to what you want, it's will be a HH replayer that can be easly modify to a quizz (based on pre-edited hand history)

it's will be open source and a "rich-client" coded in java

msn- arfaone@hotmail.com

[RedIvan064]

Great--drop a note here when it's released.