Hi guys, I've noticed on several threads that many of us want PokerStove-level hand ranges on iPhone/iTouch, now it's here!

I'd like to tell you about the PokerCruncher odds calculator (I'm the developer):

Website: http://www.pokercruncher.com

Hand Ranges page: http://www.pokercruncher.com/ipHandRanges.html

iTunes URL: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...294379237&mt=8

PokerCruncher has fully general hand ranges like PokerStove (a full grid of all 169 starting hands, extensive built-in hand ranges), and also has some useful features that even PokerStove doesn't have. E.g. Deal-To-Flop - you can see how often a hand like 87s flops various made hands and draws (in addition to making these hands by the river). And hand histograms - you can see the odds for making OnePair, TwoPair, etc.

This app really has been a "labor of love" and I'm happy I was able to ship hand ranges on a mobile device (what other phones other than the iPhone is this possible on?, goes to show how awesome the iPhone/iTouch is).

Hope you guys like it. Do give your feedback and suggestions for improvements and future versions ... thanks.

Best of luck in your games, -RJ

Please Please Please make it for the Blackberry Storm as well!

I bought it a couple weeks ago and use it all the time. It works great, no problems so far and easy to use. Nice work. Only thing I would like is to be able to put in a % range of hands like Pokerstove. Maybe a space in the hand range section where I could just put in 12% say and it would select that range.

Hi guys, thanks for the feedback.

Yes if the BlackBerry AppWorld becomes anywhere close to as big as the AppStore I should port the app to it.

Thanks for buying the app, great that you like it. That's a good suggestion, I've put the "select top x%" feature on the update list. I want to make it a slider for easier input instead of a textbox (if I can find space for the slider).

Another customer suggested:
- Save/load hand ranges.
- A text indicator showing what %age of the total possible hands are selected by your hand range. So if you select just AA (or any specific pair) it would show "0.5% selected" (1/221), then if you add AK to the range the %age would go up over 1%. This overlaps a bit with the "select top x%" feature but is easier to implement so I may implement it first.

The next update V.2.2 is about 1..2 months away (I've released two updates in the last month and can't make these too frequent per the AppStore's guidelines). This also gives some time for suggestions to come in. The app will keep getting better ... (and already it can do things that even PokerStove can't, like Deal-To-Flop and hand histograms).

Thanks, -RJ

any chance of omaha support?

Hi - re. Omaha support - currently no plans for this in the near term (~ a few months). Hand ranges looks non-trivial for 4 hole cards. I guess for hi-lo we can use 2 hand ranges per player, one for hi and one for lo (?). Haven't thought about it much though. Near-term I'd rather focus on the additional hand range features customers have suggested, think about BlackBerry, G1, etc. I think this would impact/help more people. If anyone thinks I'm missing something do let me know, thanks.

obviously i should be able to take a picture of the flop and auto-import

(Disclosure: I'm the developer of PokerCruncher.)

Hi guys just fyi that V2.2 of PokerCruncher went live on the App Store yesterday with these new hand ranges features (suggested mostly by customers like in mksmipalla's reply above):

1) "Select top x% of hands" slider. Selects the top x% of the 169 grid hands (like in PokerStove). (Pic attached below.)

2) %age indicator for the hand range you're building: Shows the %age of all possible hole-card hands that are in the hand range, taking assigned (non-live) cards into account. This is also the odds of the player getting a hand in the hand range.

3) Save/load hand ranges (up to 6 ranges).

PokerCruncher will continue to get better. It already can do things that even PokerStove can't e.g. Deal-To-Flop and hand histograms. However the "scan picture of flop and auto-import" feature sounds pretty advanced and may have to wait . Thanks for reading ...

Picture: (Select top x% of hands):

i use this everyday. pretty sick doing pokermaths sitting in chipotle.

well worth $5. ty

every poker player that leaves the house should have this. better than pokerstove imo

Another request for BlackBerry Storm please!

This app looks awesome. I'll def be putting it on my iTouch, but it would be cool to have on the Storm too.

I use it as well, it's all that's advertised and more. I actually just spent the last 20 minutes reading documentation because I realized as useful as it has been, I'm only using the hand range feature. Now that I've learned how to do the deal to flop/turn/river analysis, use the hand range dialog for sklansky and other hard coded ranges, and that the author has added hand range percentages, I really think it's way better than PokerStove.

The only thing PokerStove can do that this can't, is let you shift select ranges manually, but that's a limitation in the IPhone interface, not PokerCruncher, and the hard coded ranges dialog and percentage slider fill the gap enough that it's only a tiny impediment.

And I'm not a shill for this guy, go back to my other thread on software asking for something like this months ago. I bought SidePod before which is okay for fixed hands but other than that pretty useless. I'm the biggest critic in the world and right now this app pretty much exceeds every expectation I had.

(Disclosure: I'm the developer of PokerCruncher)

Guys - many thanks for your positive feedback! I'm just an independent software developer (and an amateur poker player, not sure which is 1a and which is 1b here..) and don't have any serious marketing/sales dollars so your reviews and word of mouth are very helpful.

kara - Yes porting to the Storm is on my list, but I can't guarantee it yet. I've also gotten emails on this.

99killed, DesertCat - Thanks for your reviews. The feedback especially on this forum means a lot to me because this is a real players forum.

Re. the Deal-To-Flop feature you mentioned - yes this is very useful and I hope people have noticed it. One way I use this is to see where some speculative hands I play would stand on the flop. Say a tight solid player raises preflop - enter e.g. top 5% of hands for him. You pick up one of your speculative hands say a 1-gap suited connector - enter this range for you using the Built-In ranges screen. Then set DealTo = Flop and see how often you can expect to get that 'miracle' flop - a made straight or flush or trips, etc. Then tap the "Draws" button in the stats view to see how often you'll flop various draws e.g. flush draw, open ender, double gutter, etc.

Then compare how often these good things can happen to how much more you need to put in pre-flop, then compare to the stack sizes, your position on him, your opponent's style / tendency to bust out, does this opponent give you fold equity on your semibluffs or bluffs, etc., a bunch more factors of course. No app/numbers can make a decision but the numbers can be a guide.

Thanks, and do keep sending suggestions, questions, feedback. -RJ

Hey Cat! Haven't seen you posting as much. Maybe it's me but I always think you posts are excellent!

Based on your review I am going to but this program.

For the Developer, If you looking for idea's for other software a ICM program for the Apple OSX like SNG Wizard would generate pretty good interest from the native apple guys!

Is there a way to enter specific hands into the hand ranges?

For example:
Player 1: {A2, AK, KK-JJ}
Player 2: {QQ}

(I'm the developer of PokerCruncher)

Not Lolo - Thanks for the suggestion. The latest app review on iTunes also suggests ICM.

cl0r0x70 - Not yet, but you'll be able to enter this in the next update (a few weeks away).

At least several people have asked for specifying specific suits in hand ranges. This was in the plans but I've been rolling out the features incrementally. In the next update you'll be able to add e.g. "Ahxh", e.g. if the flop has exactly two hearts and you want to put the villain on the nut flush draw. Or if the flop is all hearts then you'll be able to add "Ahx" as the nut flush draw.

Thanks for your interest guys. Stay tuned.. -RJ