VERSION 2.0
We have listened to our customers and have added a ton of new features and functionality to the new version 2.0 of the HeadsUp Poker Trainer! The whole look and feel has been upgraded, up to 500 games of history will be stored, options for setting the difficulty of the quizzes, filtering quizzes for specific cards and position and a whole new explorer for browsing the push/call tables across multiple blind levels.

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OVERVIEW
This game will teach you how to play a perfect equilibrium strategy for headsup poker.

* Challenge yourself with the HeadsUp Quiz with four levels of difficulty
* Filter games for to train for specific cards
* Review your history and replay any hand over your past 500 quizzes
* Explore the Equilibrium table browser and see what hands you shove or call at each blind

NASH EQUILIBRIUM
The suggested ranges for pushing all-in or calling all-in are determined using Nash Equilibrium. The equilbrium is the perfect point for pushing and calling ranges where neither you nor your opponent can have an advantage over the other. The equilibrium does not take advantage of your opponents weaknesses or tendancies, but it does prevent them from taking advantage of you. In a real game, your knowledge of the equilibrium is a starting point from where you must adjust depending on the tendncies of your opponents.

START QUIZ
When you start the quiz, you will be presented with a series of fictional table situations where you must make a decision for all of your chips. If you have the Button and are first to act, your choices are to go all-in or to fold. If you are the Big-Blind then your opponent will always go all-in first and your choices are to call or to fold. As you answer questions, the game will count your correct answers and compute your % correct. Each hand will be saved into your History and can be reviewed at a later time.



HISTORY
The History mode will display the last 500 quizzes that you took and the result of your answer. The hands are arranged with the most recent hands at the top of the list. You can select any hand from the history and the replayer will display the results of the hand and your results. The history will be saved between runs of the game.



QUIZ OPTIONS
Use the options to select the difficulty or to filter the cards that you want to see. The 'Any' difficulty setting will present random questions. Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties will give you quiz questions where the correct naswer is near the actual correct answer.



TABLES
Quickly browse the equilibrium push and call tables. The tables show the threshold of chips that are needed to push or call in a given situation. If a player has fewer chips than what is displayed in the push table, then the player should go all-in instead of folding. You can adjust the current big-blind level by clicking the arrow-keys located in the upper-right corner. This will automatically adjust the tables in the display. Use the toolbar buttons at the bottom to select unsuisted vs. suited cards or to switch between pushing or calling, based on the position of the button.



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A short 3min YouTube video tutorial on using the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8unjTG_SM

The above video tutorial has been replaced with this video of gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g20Pjc0JNY

What/Who is the piano soundtrack playing with the video?

Thanks!

believe it or not, it is one of the default tracks that come with GarageBand so the performer is unknown (buddy.caf).

I received the app about 2 weeks ago, and have nothing but great things to say about it. I think for the price, every SNG player (especially HU) should have this. It's great for when you have 5 minutes to do nothing and want to sharpen your HU push/fold game.

My favorite part is the 'tables' section, which shows the complete HU Nash equilibrium table which adjusts for each blind level starting at 50-100. Now, when i'm playing , I adjust the blind level when I am HU in a SNG and play accordingly.

If it helps me win a SNG, it's paid for itself many times over. I def recommend all SNG iphone users to purchase this app. It will for sure plug some leaks for only a couple bucks.

Absolutely love the app. Great work.

TY, great app.

TY guys i'm glad that people are downloading the app and enjoying it. If you have any recommendations for future versions please feel free to let me know.

The option to have the quiz set at a certain blind level would be nice. That way you could get a better feel for how the blind levels and stack sizes interact with the quiz telling you the min hand needed if you get one wrong.

this is a great idea and will be included in the next update for sure! the next update will coincide with the 3.0 OS upgrade from Apple btw.

I was just wondering how is this calculated, the equilibrium strategy for shoving/calling? And how can you determine that it's perfect, and are you saying there is no way to balance ranges to exploit this?

The calling ranges seems kind of loose... and when it says call less than 455 does that mean calling 490 for example is -ev vs. a random opponent (let's say no reads so you don't know if he's aggro or not), how about someone using the same strategy, is calling anything above 455, like 460 and 465 -ev?

I'm asking this because in some cases it varies, like let's say the blinds are 50/100 and you get KK, it basically says shove up to 15k or w.e., how is this determined, I mean it's not like shoving 37k is -ev (obv just asking hypothetically, as to the numbers not the reads, no one open shoves such stacks deep).

And also, at the hard difficulty, it's kind of weird (imo) that you get something like (actual excercise) call when stack is below 870 K3 unsuited at 50/100, I mean this kind of seems too tight to me and then you have something like call less than 469 at 50/100 with 87 unsuited (taken from the tables tab) which seems kind of too lose. Which I guess is the same question again, how do you get these numbers? And then is it always optimal to use this strategy, well I guess that's not true as there's more optimal strategies you can use when playing very tight and loose players and you can balance ranges according to your judgment better etc. , but is it always unexploitable?

The best way I can describe it is to say that equilibrium strategy is not necessarily the same thing as an exploitive strategy but it is the best strategy to avoid being exploited yourself! What I say in the help file is that equilibrium is the starting point from which you can then adjust your ranges if you have reads.

A nice way to explain this is to imagine two players, A and B... A adjusts his range based on his knowledge of how B plays. Then B adjusts his range because he knows what A did. Then A adjusts again because B adjusted because A adjusted his range. This continues until the two ranges no longer can adjust and this is the equilibrium. This point is where neither side can exploit the other. The equlibrium is your starting point from where you can then adjust based on any reads that you have.

I would suggest checking out http://www.holdemresources.net/hr/sngs/hune.html or "Kill Phil" is a great book that covers this in excellent detail.

So I think your questions have more to do with how to exploit the other guy - which is an excellent question. If I were playing against someone who is much better than me HU, then I personally may play straight equilibrium. If I am playing against someone who is worse and/or I have excellent reads on my villain, then I can adjust using the equilibrium as my starting point.

I hope this answers your question... Please reply if you have more questions!

Yeah, I see... that's what I figured. I guess what I wondered was how stuff like ICM and this equilibrium is calculated. Like I know it's an algorithm that someone made that does it, but how does he prove that it's unexploitable? Does it just run millions of simulations and then look at the results and determines this?

I don't know much about ICM and all this because I don't really play STTs just hu cash & sngs, and I sometimes look at the charts in the late push/fold stages to get a general idea.