Texas Calculatem Review

As poker enters the digital age, it’s interesting to see what aspects and artifacts of the game get updated. Some changes are minor – for example, the option to view a deck in four color mode online. Some are more extreme – witness the introduction of dealerless, chipless tables at several US casinos [...]

SitNGo Wizard (SNGWiz) review

Sit and Go tournaments (SNGs) are a unique form of poker for a couple of reasons. They are popular primarily online (although you will see them crop up in live casinos from time to time, and they do become popular when a big entry tournament needs to run satellites). They are also one [...]

Poker Manager Review

UPDATE: As of early 2009, PokerManager appears to have ceased operation. Their website has been down for several weeks and there’s been no update on the status of the software from anyone associated with the company.
With so many niche tools being developed for online poker, it was only a matter of time before someone [...]

Review of PokerGrapher

Part of the awesomeness of PokerTracker stems from its ubiquity, insomuch that people are always developing neat little tools that work with or around it. One member of that group is PokerGrapher, a tool that is probably familiar to many, but worth mentioning again because of the function it performs – making profit (or [...]

Review of Poker Stove

PokerStove is a downloadable poker calculator that lets you perform complex equity calculations with a few simple clicks.

Look
This, to me, is what software should look like – no frills, no bells, no whistles – just the stuff you need and a clear interface for getting you there. It’s not the tops aesthetically, but who cares?

Content [...]

Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume 1, by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, Ed Miller

While it took them a decent amount of time, 2+2 now seems to be on the ball in regards to publishing books that focus on no limit cash games. This book is Ed Miller’s second foray into NLHE cash, the first being a fairly well-received introductory text co-authored with Sklansky. Miller apparently took somewhat of [...]

The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman

Not so much a poker book as a math primer with frequent illustrations that draw exclusively on poker. Chen and Ankenman have created a unique text, one that deals far more with a meta approach to the game of poker from a mathematical perspective and offers very little in the way of traditional, scenario-focused advice. [...]

The Rules of Poker by Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky

Overview
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The Rules of Poker may be the Super System’s Anti-Christ as the back cover announces “here is the poker bible that will let you concentrate on what’s really important – winning.” The book covers a lot of the nuances of poker, the rules, which chips to use, when you can and can not play ‘overs.’ [...]