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Poker Tools - Maximising The Odds Becoming a crusher does not happen overnight. Along with understanding poker, the new-gen poker players are making full use of tech & tools to maximise their odds. We caught up with two such poker pros to understand their go to poker tools.
By Ananya Agarwalla
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echnology is shaping poker in more ways than we know. With the online growth of the game, people have developed tech that can ease and make the game more lucrative and simple for players. Players use this to their advantage and have made technology their best friend. Becoming a poker pro or a crusher does not happen overnight. None of them have a magic wand that will suddenly turn you into a fierce poker pro. Experience and how much of an effort you put in to understand the nuances makes the play a lot smoother, better, and more profitable. The study materials If you plan to make poker your business, then you shouldn’t start with ‘playing’ poker but ‘understanding’ poker. Apart from understanding the nuances of position, bankroll management, and table selection, players nowadays are making full use of technology to understand 28
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more about their opponents in whatever ways possible. Every move they make, every hand they simulate, maximises their odds. Using essential poker tools, tracker software, hand simulations, and learning math redefines how you play and understand poker. One, however, needs to understand which technology is most helpful for them and how effectively they can incorporate it into their game. Poker pro players use Heads Up Display’s (HUDs), solvers, equity calculators, and poker trackers to their advantage. To get a better understanding of how some of this specific software is being used, Gutshot got in touch with professional poker crushers – Siddharth Barot, a killer high stakes poker player as well as previous Adda52 millions winner and Sagar Patnaik, primarily a high stakes cash grinder and tournament player as well.
Sagar Patnaik Understanding the tech guide To understand the extent to which these crushers use technology in their game, we questioned how they are making use of these softwares and to what extent these technologies determine a poker player’s merits. Multiple poker software help you understand the game of poker better. If used correctly these software help fix leaks in your poker game. For example, a HUD can help you understand where you are losing/winning the most. After every session, you can check which positions you were winning/losing. This enables
