Main Window, "Preflop" page

The main window itself isn’t very big. In the upper side you can see two buttons: “Options” opens the settings window and “Help” opens the help file. At the bottom you can see a link to the site.

The main part of the window is occupied by several pages of miscellaneous information received from the Poker Tracker. The first page “Preflop” becomes instantly active after the program starts.

 

At “Preflop” page you can see how often you got pocket high pairs from jacks to aces and suited broadway cards with aces. Those are the strongest hands, and their number may indicate your good luck on preflop. Besides you can get info on any pocket cards – just enter them in the text field on the top of the page. Cards must be entered using general rules: both cards values first (using digits from 2 to 9 and letter T, J, Q, K, A), suitedness second (“s” for suited, “o” or no letter for off-suited). As soon as you enter the combination you want (by default you can see ace-king off-suited) press “Calculate” button to see the result. Here you can easily check if the program works correctly. You can compare the number of hands shown here with the number of hands in the Poker Tracker. Other pages contain info that cannot be seen in the Tracker.

Let’s see how results are presented in the program. You can see a color strip red at the edges and green in the center. Above the strip you can see five marks: the middle one shows the average expected number of combinations (e.g. theoretically expected number of high pairs). It’s calculated by multiplying the total number of qualified hands (here it’s a total number of hands played as we get pocket cards every deal) to the probability to get a particular combination (e.g. the probability to get a pair of aces is about 1/221). Expected number of combinations is shown in green and corresponds with 50% mark. That’s the probability that in practice we will get the number of combinations not less than expected. Taking into account the rounding and the specifics of the distribution law, the average number of combination shown will not exactly match the 50% probability, but it will converge to the 50% level. Other four marks have numbers above them: 10% in yellow parts and 1% in red parts of the strip (pay attention that the scale isn’t linear, and the ends of the strip represent 0%). Those marks just help to evaluate your results visually. Below the strip you can see a mark that shows the real, practical number of combinations. Below the mark you can see the number of combinations and probability. If the number of combinations is below average (mark is on the left side of the scale) then the probability shows chances that the number of combinations will not exceed the real number. If the number of combinations is above average (mark is on the right side of the scale) then the probability shows chances that the number of combinations will be not less than the real number. Depending on the probability level the number of combinations will appear in different colors.

Let me give a small example. On the picture you can see my own results in Prima network. Let’s consider high suited broadway cards with an ace. According to the Tracker (“General Info” page), I can see that I got AKs 68 times, AQs - 61 times, AJs - 82 times, ATs - 73 times, total 284, which is exactly what you can see in the program as the practical number. I played 24.257 hands altogether. The probability to get one certain suited combination is 4/1326. As we have four different independent combinations, the expected number of hands is 24.257*4*4/1326=292,7 or about 293 as shown above the 50% mark. As you can see, the practical result is 10 points less than expected – well, is it a big or a small difference, should we panic? You can see that the probability to get 284 hands or less instead of 293 of the expected is about 30% which is OK. If the chances are below 1% THEN you should be really worried.

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