Blitzwood PokerDjinn - Introduction
What is Blitzwood PokerDjinn?
Blitzwood PokerDjinn® is a standalone Windows application which can be used to help improve your
Texas Hold'em poker skills and can also be used alongside real-time Internet poker games to aid
your decision-making *.
To play alongside Intenet poker, you need a fairly modern machine! See the FAQ menu option for more information.
A basic working knowledge of Texas Hold'em poker is assumed, so this program is not aimed at
complete poker novices. It assumes, for instance, that you know what a 'full house' is and what
the 'big blind' is - and for the odds calculations, assumes at least that you vaguely know a
bit about how odds work.
The current version of Blitzwood PokerDjinn is 1.0.
Its main features are:-
- It can be used to display advice for pre-flop betting decisions (and you can update the advice to reflect your playing style).
- After the flop appears, your current hand ranking and value is shown, as well as a complete list of all turn cards which will
give you a high ranking hand (and what that hand will be).
- It also provides a report on the number of other possible 'pocket cards' which other players might possess
which are currently better than yours.
These are split into a count of each type of potential better hand (e.g. pair, full house etc.)
with an example of 2 cards which would produce this better hand.
- If you have a chance of improving your hand (e.g. a straight draw) after the next card is dealt,
and the new hand is sufficiently high-ranked compared to other player's possible hands,
then odds calculations are also performed.
For fixed-limit games, the pot size required to give you the correct odds to call bets is displayed.
- Similar features apply after the 'turn' card is dealt.
- After the river has been dealt, your current hand is again ranked against all other possible hands.
- 'What if' scenarios can be played out easily.
- The main application window can take up relatively little screen space, so that it can co-exist
with a typical Internet poker window with little or no need to switch windows because information is partially obscured.
What Blitzwood PokerDjinn is NOT
- It is not a 'game', but is instead a utility program to assist in improving your poker skills.
- As it is not a game, the emphasis (and focus of development) is on brute-force calculations, and not on fancy graphics!
- There is no guarantee that you will suddenly start making money by using this. Used as a guide, it may help though!
- It does not interact directly in any way with any Internet poker applications.
There are applications which do this, but they are often either tied in to one site or require 'hidden' investments.
As PokerDjinn is an independent application, you can use it to experiment with fictitious scenarios to improve
your game, without being under pressure of being in a 'real' game at the time.
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