Deal-To-Flop and flop texture
analysis, combined with hand histograms, flop hit stats, and odds for flopping draws and
combination draws, are important features that separate
PokerCruncher from
the many other ordinary odds calculators and turn PokerCruncher into a
powerful odds analysis tool not just a basic odds calculator.
Most of
the time you're interested in seeing how hands do against each other
going all the way to the river, so PokerCruncher deals to the river by
default. But the important decisions in a hand happen many times at the
flop,
so it's useful to see where hands stand at the flop, and to see what
kinds of made hands
and draws
hands can flop and how often they flop them. And also, it's useful to
see how a given flop might have hit a hand range.
You can do this in PokerCruncher by tapping the "Deal To" button,
which
lets you deal to the flop,
turn,
or even to just the hole
cards, in addition to all the way to the river.
Screenshot Example
JT-suited doesn't do very well against many other hands going
all the way to the river (after all it's just Jack-high). But
with
a suited/connected hand like JT-suited you're really interested in
seeing what kinds of made hands and draws the hand can flop and how
often it flops them.
In the screenshot you
can see how often JT-suited flops made
hands like OnePair, TwoPair,
3OfAKind, Straight, Flush, etc.
Flop Hit Stats
Flop hit stats measure a hand's direct/full hit on the flop, whereas the default make hand stats include cases where e.g. the board pairs to help make the hand.
Set DealTo=Flop and calculate. The "Stats" button toggles between "Hit" ("hit hand" stats) and "Make" (default "make hand" stats). In the Stats view, the hit stats which can be different than the default stats are shown in blue color (see screenshot).
Flop
hit stats require the player's hole cards to be used to hit the hand.
The default make hand stats don't require the hole cards to be
used (can use only the board's cards, or can use the hole cards
partially). For example AK's default make hand stat for OnePair on
the flop is 40%, but AK's flop hit stat for OnePair is 29%.
Similarly for TwoPair, 3OfAKind, FullHouse, and a few of the
combination draws stats.
Odds For Flopping Draws And Combination Draws
In addition, by tapping the Stats view's "S" <- and ->
buttons you
can see how often JT-suited flops
various draws or hits
the board's top card:
We emphasize that the odds for the draws above are the odds
for flopping
the draws, not for completing
the draws by the river (which PokerCruncher can also calculate by dealing
to the river).
Tap the "S" ->
button again and you can see the odds for flopping various
combination draws
(e.g. FourFlushDraw and OpenEndStraightDraw) and various Pair&Draws
(e.g. Pair and FourFlushDraw):
We challenge you to find other odds calculators that can
show you this wide and useful a range of stats.
Flop Texture Analysis
Suppose you put an opponent on a particular range of hands (maybe even
the all hands range i.e. a random hand), and the flop is dealt. You can
set DealTo=Flop
to see how this flop has hit your opponent's hand range; this is flop texture analysis.
E.g. you can see what made hands and draws and combination
draws your opponent might have flopped.
Deal-To-Hole-Cards Analysis
Deal-To-Flop
turns the normal 7-card game into a 5-card
game by ending the hand at
the flop. You can go even further and use Deal-To-Hole-Cards
to turn
the game into a 2-card
game. Why is this useful?; here's an example.
Example - Running Into KK vs. AA
Say
you have KK. What are the chances that someone
has AA, say at a full 10-handed table? This is easy to calculate in
PokerCruncher:
- Set the number of players to 10.
- Give Player1 (you) KK.
- Leave the other players' cards blank (random cards).
- Set DealTo=HoleCards.
- Calculate, and see how often your KK is in the
lead.
What
about at a short-handed table with 5 players? What if you have QQ and
want to know how often you'll run into AA or KK? What if you have JJ?
These are all easy questions to answer using PokerCruncher.
Other Odds Calculators
Deal-To Flop/Turn/HoleCards and flop texture analysis and
PokerCruncher's advanced stats are powerful analysis features that you
won't
find in most other odds
calculators and set PokerCruncher apart from other
calculators.
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