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Poker tools I

September 22nd, 2008

In poker games often some mechanical devices or software or web-based application programs are used by which anyone can have a statistical analysis of data regarding participating players, types of poker games that are played and all poker tournaments.

A very common type of poker tools extensively used is the odds calculator and it has three applications — poker odds calculator, poker advantage calculator and poker relative calculator. While the first two are commonly used in public cardrooms, live shows and tournaments employ use of the poker relative calculator that estimates the odds of winning in relation to other participants. First discovered and used in 1990, applying odds calculator in poker games started by use of the simulator called Poker Probe. This and its later derivations run numerous programs permitting users to simulate hands of play with two to ten players so that a fairly accurate winning percentage of all the players can be separately calculated.

Tournament databases are those profit-making websites in the internet that have accumulated the results of online poker tournaments into a research database and anyone can view them in order to find out the ranking and betting data and figures of all those players who had participated.

Another popular poker tool favored by many players is game software products which are prepared and marketed by companies that allow players to compete in a game table manned by programmable computer opponents. Sometimes there are some computer programs called the pokerbots that can take part in an online poker game and pretend to be a human player. Online poker game sites generally disallow use of pokerbots. For poker tools like datamining tools, also known as hand grabbers, all information of game play in online poker rooms get recorded without the user needing to play. The record is saved as a text or a XML file format and can be read by analytical tools.

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