features
Five features, and where each one stops.
Pokiq reads the hand history you already have and measures what is in it. Everything below is built on that one act, and everything below has a point where it stops knowing things. Those limits are on the pages themselves rather than in the small print, because a training tool that hides them is harder to trust, not easier.
what is in it
Each of the five has its own page with the thresholds written out. The line under every card is the limit, not a disclaimer.
Leak finder
Reads your whole history and names the patterns that repeat, with a threshold and a minimum hand count behind every finding.
A pattern only counts as a leak when the money agrees. Where the loss cannot be traced to specific hands, the price stays blank.
Hand history import
Reads the three GGPoker export formats, unpacks zip archives in your browser, and splits a month long export into the sessions you actually played.
GGPoker only, and only after the session. Nothing runs while you play.
Coach
A chat that already knows your measured frequencies, your open leaks and your actual hands, so it answers about your game instead of about poker in general.
It will not help you with a hand you are playing right now. Real time assistance is against the rules of nearly every poker site.
Practice bots
Eight opponents with published numbers, plus a mirror built from your own frequencies. Every decision you make is stored next to what the reference says.
Each bot plays one fixed style and never adapts. Beating one means you found the holes in a single strategy.
Tournaments
A separate score, separate leak detectors and separate reference ranges, because a 12 big blind decision is not a 100 big blind decision.
Tournament findings are counted in chips, never converted to euros. Without ICM that conversion would be a guess.
All five feed one number. How that score is built, component by component, is on the Poker IQ page, and the example report shows the actual output on one account rather than a description of it.
four rules across all of it
The same four rules govern every feature. They are the reason some screens say less than a competitor would.
No number without a source
Every threshold on these pages sits in the code that runs, and the pages name where. Where a number would have to be invented to look complete, it is left out instead. That is why you will not find a claimed improvement, a claimed time to result, or a user count anywhere on this site.
A minimum sample before anything is said
Each detector carries its own minimum hand count, from 25 in a narrow spot up to 400 for a 3-bet frequency. Below those counts the report stays empty. An empty report on 150 hands is the correct answer, not a disappointing one.
Blank is not zero
Several findings carry no price. That is a deliberate gap: the loss sits in pots you never entered, or in an accuracy figure rather than a realised result. Putting a number there would be a model dressed up as a measurement.
Process over result
A week of results is mostly noise, and the app is built to say so. The weekly coach message talks about what you did rather than what it returned, and a practice match pays more for good decisions than for winning chips.
what it is not
Four things people reasonably expect from poker software that this one deliberately does not do.
- · Not a heads up display. Nothing reads your table, nothing overlays your client, and nothing runs while a hand is in progress.
- · Not a solver. The reference ranges are conventions used by the training world, and the pages that show them say so rather than calling them solutions.
- · Not a tracker for other people. GGPoker encrypts opponent names and rotates the codes between sessions, so no feature here can tell a soft table from a hard one.
- · Not a site you play on. You play where you already play, export afterwards, and analyse here.
Getting the file out of your client takes about a minute and is written out step by step on the GGPoker export page. If you would rather play a few hands before uploading anything, the browser table at play against the computer needs no account at all.
next
See what sits behind which plan.
The free tier gives you one import and reads the first 500 hands from it, which is enough for the detectors to fire but not enough to use as a tracker. The pricing page lists which of the five features each plan opens, without a trial that charges you for forgetting.
questions
What does Pokiq actually do?
It reads the hand history you export from your poker client, measures your frequencies and results, and names the recurring patterns that cost you money. On top of that measurement sit a coach that can quote your own hands, practice bots with published numbers, and a separate tournament track.
Do I have to install anything?
No. You export your hands from PokerCraft inside the GGPoker client and upload the file. Zip archives are unpacked in your own browser. There is no desktop program, no overlay and nothing that touches the poker client while you play.
Which files can it read?
Three GGPoker formats: cash game hand histories, tournament hand histories, and the short tournament result summary. Anything else gets a clear message naming what does work, rather than a silent failure.
What can I do without paying?
One import, from which the first 500 hands are read, the last 50 hands in the hand list, the first two practice bots and three lessons. The coach and the full leak report sit behind a paid plan.
Is analysing my own hands allowed?
Analysing your own history after the session is a different thing from a real time heads up display, which GGPoker does not permit. The export comes from PokerCraft, the tool inside the client itself, and everything here happens after you have finished playing.