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Essential Tools to Improve your Game: What are some of the tools you have used to expand your poker knowledge away from the table?
Michael Acevedo (author of Modern Poker Theory):
It really depends on what I’m trying to do. My choice for preflop study was the Monker Solver, but it is by far the most difficult Solver to use. The learning curve is very high, and even for an expert setting up a new GTO (Game Theory Optimal) simulation, it’s very hard and time consuming.
Now I only use FLOP GTO, which is a tool I personally designed and was developed in conjunction with Patrik Antonius. It covers all possible GTO situations for MTTs, Cash Games, and much more. For now, it only has preflop GTO solutions, but post-flop solutions are coming soon. You can download FLOP for free in your app store.
The idea of a tool like this is to offer instant access to any poker situation over the cloud with no need for powerful computers, or any technical knowledge at all with just a few clicks. Preflop is the backbone of poker. If you get preflop right, post-flop play becomes much easier.
For post-flop study I use Pio Solver, and custom software I also designed (which will be commercially available soon). There are several solvers in the market. I’ve tried all of them. I also get contacted all the time by people developing new tools who want my opinion. All GTO solvers require some level of technical knowledge, powerful enough hardware, and time to run the solutions. They also have the advantage of being very flexible and allow to be able to solve almost any imaginable poker situation, but the output is only as good as the parameters entered by the user.
There is still a long way to go in poker study tools. As it is right now, there are many things that need to be improved as most poker software looks like it was designed using windows 95 and completely ignored UX design. I do know 100 percent that poker study tools are here to stay, just the same as it happened in chess strategy over the years. They will become a key part of the learning experience for both old and new players alike.
Soon people will realize that poker study has to be approached more seriously and technological advances like neural networks and cloud computing will revolutionize the way we study the game forever.
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