Poker Academy
Learning the game and it's not costing you anything.
Simulate Game Structures & Model Opponents
Poker Academy is a skill-building poker simulation game that let's you control a myriad of variables and set challenges for yourself while not spending anything. All the while you are creating decision scenarios one after the other that can take you to a higher level of thinking, strategizing and winning in your real money games.
Zip mode enables the game to be played lightning fast so you can get to your next hand. Choose from a variety of ring games and tournament structures. By playing over 200 hands an hour - you can skip over the dead time waiting for a playable hand and instead work on all aspects of your game.
In addition to all of this you can select the bot opponents that give you the most trouble and even tweak their settings to fully capture some players at your local Thursday evening poker night.
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Learn to Play Better Poker
The in-game advisor states action frequencies to help you hone your game. You can even customize the advisor to learn a different style and experiment with a variety of poker images. Poker Academy Pro also features tools such as the Hand Evaluator Sidebar, to determine pot odds and hand potentials. Other tools include the Showdown Calculator, Hand Evaluator Tool, and a Poker Tutorial - all designed to aid in your Hold'em development.
Using Poker Academy Pro's advanced AI, a number of simulations are run and your odds of winning are broken down by the number of players.
You will instantly be able to see the change in expected winning odds for playing that A-J offsuit against a tight table versus playing it against 7 limpers.
Find Leaks using In-Depth Analysis Tools
Many aspects affect the bottom line - our poker software allows you to determine which parts were a result of bad luck, bad timing, or bad playing. Poker Academy Pro boasts a powerful stats package to aid you in all aspects of this analysis, whether you check too much on the flop, or play too much from under the gun, our software will help you find that leak.
You can also scour your poker history in agonizing detail; re-live your second best hands, missed calls, and ill-timed bluffs from every hand played in Poker Academy Pro.
Refine your game with Advanced Poker Drills
Elevate your game to new heights using the most advanced features in any poker software. Dealer options allow you to stack the deck to work on the holes in your game. Work on mid-pocket pairs by repeatedly dealing yourself pocket 7's and learn when to fold and when to push.
More about the team at Poker Academy:
If you’ve been around the world of online poker long enough, you’re aware of the sub-industry devoted to self-analysis tools. Broadly speaking, these are programs which grab all your hand histories and generate statistics about your play, in the service of self-analysis, so you can find your weaknesses and improve. By and large, the industry leader in this field has been Poker Tracker, preferred by very respectable online communities. Certainly, Poker Tracker has become the benchmark by which new products are compared, and I would argue deservedly so. I used it myself for a good while, with a modest database of about 55K hands.
(“Ok, this is a review of Poker Academy Prospector, right?” Yep, we’re getting to that.)
You’ll notice, careful reader, that I say, “has been Poker Tracker,” because I submit for your consideration that a new benchmark has been set. The good people of Poker Academy have been kind enough to bring us Prospector.
Who are the “good people” of Poker Academy? In July of 2007, an event occurred in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the first ever Man vs Machine Poker Championship. This contest pitted Phil “Unabomber” Laak (who is quite a poker math enthusiast himself) and Prince Ali Esmali against Polaris, an AI limit hold’em expert system developed by the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group. The final score was 2-1-1 for Man, not exactly a knockout for Homo sapiens. The battle was described as grueling by both humans. Polaris apparently had no comment on the match. My bigger point here is, yes, there is a group of AI researchers pushing the envelope in game theory and decision-making with incomplete information, using poker as their model.
Using AI to solve problems of incomplete information has potential implications for political science, economics, emergency management, warfare, stock exchanges, climate change, and did I mention these guys are a pretty serious brains trust? The leader of the group, Darse Billings, titled his Ph.D. thesis, “Algorithms and Assessment in Computer Poker.” If you have the time and are willing to exert the effort, he essentially lays out the roadmap of teaching computers how to play poker, particularly how to deal with misinformation (bluffing) and incomplete information (not seeing your opponents’ hole-cards), with suggestions about the implications for broader problems of decision-making in real-time, dynamic, complex situations.
Read the full review of Poker Prospector