Poker Pal Calculator

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 8:34 am

If and when you play the odds in poker, you’re gonna win at the end! That’s the way all the casinos earn their money every day. Until recently, to play the odds in Poker, you would have had to have been some kind of mathematical genius to be able to perform all the necessary calculations by yourself on-the-fly.

Here comes the Poker Pal into play.

Poker Pal

Poker Pal is a free to download online poker calculator. No other program covers Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo!. Though this online poker calculator is small, it works automatically with more than a hundred various online poker rooms.
Poker Pal’s main window is the “command center” of the software. Here you get the most essential information while playing your game: your winning chance and your pot odds. These two information pieces are presented on a graphical display. Simply put, don’t let the needles go into the red area!

In the main panel a deck is displayed too. When visible cards are dealt out, all spent cards are grayed out. You move the mouse cursor over any card to see the probability of receiving that particular card, a card of that face or any card of that suit.

The main feature of this online poker calculator is the winning chance probability percentage that it offers. To understand a lot better, you must consider a Texas Holdem game wherein there are a total of 5 players. Before the dealer does his or her job with the hole cards, each player has a one in five chance, or in other words 20% chance of winning that particular hand. And if all the cards have been dealt, a certain player would suddenly have only a 14% chance of winning. If you are that player, then you would be committing a mathematically incorrect call if you resume playing that hand.

Knowing the right time when to hold em or when to fold em is the key to an online poker player?s success. This is the area where most players, doesn’t matter what the players rank is, could go wrong. Professionals as well sometimes commit this mistake.
Also, Poker Pal integrates the utilization of pot odds, whether they are true or implied, it does not matter, in its calculations.
When you are enjoying poker online, Poker Pal keeps track of all the bets, raises and calls and also calculates, automatically, the pot odds on-the-fly. The object is really quite simple. If your chance of winning is larger than your pot odds percentage, then it is deemed to be automatically favorable. If not, however, then what comes is the exact opposite. Your pot odds will become unfavorable, much to your dismay.

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