tools
Poker tools.
Nineteen calculators, each built around a question you already ask at the table. They run in your browser, they need no account, and they show the arithmetic they used. Nothing here estimates when it could count.
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Odds
Outs calculator
How often does my draw get there?
Count your outs and see the real percentage on the turn, on the river, and over both. With the deviation from the rule of 2 and 4 next to it, because that rule is a shortcut and the page says where it slips.
Maths
EV calculator
Does this bet make money in the long run?
The expected value of a bet or a bluff, with the fold percentage it needs to break even. Nothing more, and nothing dressed up.
Ranges
Combo counter
How many combinations does that range hold?
Six per pair, four suited, twelve offsuit, and what happens to those counts once a card is on the board or in your hand.
Bankroll
Variance calculator
Could this run be luck?
The margin of error around your win rate at a given number of hands, the chance of being down after that many, and what it takes for a number to mean anything.
Maths
Probability calculator
What are the odds of that?
The general case: how often something turns up in a given number of cards or attempts, from a flush draw to a set to a card that ruins your hand.
Odds
Equity calculator
How does my hand do against a whole range?
Hand against hand, or hand against a range you write out. It counts every runout where that is possible and says so plainly when it has to sample instead, with the margin of error next to the answer.
Tournament
ICM calculator
What is my stack actually worth in prize money?
Two to nine players, any payout structure. Chips are not money once places pay, and this shows the gap, including what a coin flip gains the big stack against what it costs him.
Tournament
Push or fold calculator
Is shoving here better than folding?
Built from real equity rather than a memorised table, and it can price all 169 starting hands at once so you see where the line falls.
Ranges
Range visualizer
What does this range actually look like?
Write a range in ordinary notation and see it on the grid, with the combination count, two ranges compared and the overlap between them.
Tournament
Deal calculator
How do we split the prize pool fairly?
ICM, chip chop and save the min side by side, because there is more than one fair answer and the table should know which one it is choosing.
Tournament
Chip distribution
How many chips of each colour does everybody get?
A starting stack per player that does not force a colour change halfway through, with the reason each count was picked rather than just the counts.
Analysis
Hand history viewer
What actually happened, street by street?
Paste a hand history and read it back in order, with the pot before every decision. It replays what is there and passes no judgement on it.
Analysis
Stats explained
What do VPIP, PFR and WTSD actually mean?
Every stat Pokiq measures, what counts as normal at your table size, and the hand count below which the number is still noise.
Analysis
Hand analyzer
What happened in this hand?
Paste a hand history and read it back: positions, action per street, the pot before each decision and the price you were being laid. It reads what is there and does not tell you whether it was right.
Odds
Poker odds calculator
How often does my hand win against theirs?
Up to four hands, any board. It counts every runout the deck still allows, all 1,712,304 of them before the flop, and gives the exact equity rather than a simulation.
Decisions
Pot odds calculator
Is this call worth the price?
The price you are being laid, the equity that price demands, the equity your outs really give you, and how much you would have to win later to justify a call that comes up short.
Money
Bankroll calculator
Can I afford the stake I am playing?
Risk of ruin from your own win rate and swing, the bankroll a 5 or 1 percent risk actually needs, and the Kelly number. Cash games and tournaments.
Home game
Tournament clock
What are the blinds, and when do they go up?
Twenty levels at three speeds, with breaks, antes from level five, chips in play and the average stack updating as players bust.
Home game
Blind timer
How do I make tonight last exactly four hours?
Give it the players, the stacks and the time you have. It builds the blind schedule around that and counts it down. No antes, no breaks, nothing to argue with.
which one, and when
Three of these answer a hand. Two of them run a night.
A hand raises two separate questions, and mixing them up is where most of the confusion about poker maths comes from. How often do I win is one question, and the odds calculator answers it by dealing out every possible board. Whether the price I am being offered is worth paying is a different question, and it is the pot odds calculator that answers that one. You need both numbers before a call is anything more than a guess, and neither one has an opinion about the third question: whether you can afford to be in the game at all, which is what the bankroll calculator is for.
The other two are for the host. If you want a proper structure with breaks and antes, the tournament clock has one ready to start. If you would rather say how long the evening should last and have the blinds worked out backwards from that, the blind timer builds the schedule for you.
None of these will help if the underlying game is still fuzzy, and that is worth being honest about. A calculator that tells you your flush draw is 35 percent is useless if you are not certain a flush beats a straight, or if you are unsure who acts first after the flop. Both take about ten minutes to learn properly: the Texas Hold'em rules in order, and then what changes in the other poker variants. Numbers on top of solid rules compound. Numbers on top of guesswork do not.
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Start with the hand that has been bothering you.
Everyone has one: the pot they are still not sure they should have called. Type the two hands in, add the board, and find out what it was actually worth. It takes about twenty seconds and you never have to wonder about that hand again.
questions about the tools
Are these poker tools free?
All of them, with no account and nothing to install. Every calculation runs in your browser, which is also why nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored.
Which poker calculator should I use?
Match the tool to the question. Odds calculator for how often a hand wins, pot odds calculator for whether a call is worth its price, bankroll calculator for whether you can afford the game, and the clock or the timer for running one.
Do these tools work on a phone?
Yes. They are ordinary web pages, so they work on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, and the tournament clock is designed to be left running on whatever screen sits at the end of the table.
Are the numbers exact or estimated?
Exact, and where a shortcut exists we show how far off it is. The odds calculator enumerates every possible runout instead of simulating. The pot odds page uses the real card counts rather than the rule of four and two, and prints the difference between the two.
Can I use these tools while I play?
On a home game, at your own table, that is what the clock and the timer are for. Do not use a calculator while playing on a real money site: most of them forbid any assistance during a hand, and the point of the odds pages is to make the numbers familiar enough that you do not need them at the table.