I'd like to have a thread with my blog about advancing my skills in online poker

Mainly skills of using poker tools

The goal of the blog is to get comments from more experienced players that can show me the most profitable directions of research/advancing to get a better winrate and save my time

This thread can be useful to another not very advanced players that want to save their time advancing skills



Moderators, I am not sure that this (Big Ugly Poker) is the best place for such a blog. So maybe we/you can move it to another thread.



I have no time to be the best in all type of poker tournaments. So I choose SnG 1 table Double or Nothing NL holdem tournaments. I don't want to keep in memory many things and to train my GTO skills. I think this job for me should make poker tools. Including written by myself. Also precalculated tables.



I read few books about poker: Mathematics of poker and Intelligent poker player. I was very unsatisfied with low percentage of really useful information. Common statements like "against tight players you should play tighter" means nothing for me until there are no tables that defines defined actions for a defined situation. Or a tool that can calculate this for me.



I know what is equity, GTO and nash equilibrium. Few days ago I learned what is ICM. It is a value (there are many ways of calculating it) calculated by an algorithm that represents current tournament situation (mainly player stacks) into money considering a tournament's prize structure.



3 days ago I subscribed for money for Holdem Resources Calculator. It's a tool for perfect push/fold charts for a late stages of tournaments. I was almost shocked about some of its decisions. Sometimes it is unfair to call preflop all-in with AA hand. And it's often almost unbelievably is fair to go all-in with any hand. It is so because HRC calculates its tables like all the players play optimal. In real internet poker tournaments not many players play GTO. Luckily HRC has opportunity to edit and lock ranges of all-in calls of a defined player and than recalculate not locked ranges. But unluckily it is almost impossible manually to set stacks and some ranges in real time when you need it because it takes more time than poker room gives for thinking. It would be great if HRC had a command line interface with text output into file. But it has no.



I think that writing tool for HRC like calculations by myself may take around a week using already written by me poker tools. The day before yesterday in twoplustwo HRC thread I found a comment that there is nothing new in HRC comparing to Icmizer 2 poker tool. I took a quick look on Icmizer and it looks more advanced to me. It has also a very good 1h long introduction video. Sometimes Icmizer's default (without editing some player's ranges) push/fold calculations are a bit close to reality as it assumes that all-ins with hands AA and KK should be called almost always.


For early (big stack tournament stages) I use pokerstrategy preflop tables. They are far from perfect and too common. After HRC and Icmizer2 pokerstrategy's push/folds charts looks lame. Also postflop folding everything but top pair and higher or monster draw like defines pokerstrategy is obviously lame.



Now I'm making a tool for quick setting HRC stacks in real time. It is possible as it supports loading from buffer. But unfortunaly buffer input as I wrote before has no commands to set defined call ranges.



Today I took a quick look at PioSolver free version. Looks like a great postflop tool that supports command line interface!!! But I got no throw its complicated interface. Maybe I'll back to it later.

Oh this is definitely the wrong place to place the thread. Moderators, can you please remove it to Two Plus Two Poker Forums > Internet Poker > Software

I guess it feats there

I just found that Malmuth-Harville ICM formula is the tiniest possible

actually I was wrong about simplicity of M-H algorithm

public static double[][] getHarvilleMatrixFast(double[] x) {
double[][] p = new double[x.length][x.length];
double[] w = new double[(0x1 << (x.length))];
w[0] = 1;

double r, t;
for (int f = 1; f <= x.length; f++)
for (int ns = 1; ns < w.length; ns++)
if (Integer.bitCount(ns) == f) {
r = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
if (((0x1 << i) & ns) == 0) r += x[i];
for (int i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
if (((0x1 << i) & ns) != 0) {
t = x[i] / (x[i] + r) * w[ns ^ (0x1 << i)];
p[i][f - 1] += t;
w[ns] += t;
}
}

return p;
}

my understanding of it is quite different to these imo advanced operations
advanced enough that it makes me not to want to spend my time exploring it



by now it's enough that I understand how to use the result matrix
matrix[2][0] = the chance of the 3rd player (2+1) will finish first (0+1)

I contact with pioSolver creator
he gave me links to manuals
and I think that I have opportunity to get answers from him

run:
player:0 stack:3.012175323658628 icm:0.4500460322467227
player:1 stack:4.938735123700393 icm:0.6365213562142182
player:2 stack:8.174039007702149 icm:0.8090848123410564
player:3 stack:6.0490867654146605 icm:0.7113049740447605
player:4 stack:1.7548431045997948 icm:0.2849633853565182
player:5 stack:3.181542155701048 icm:0.4696532843977329
player:6 stack:4.963588663108029 icm:0.638426155398991
sum:4.0
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)

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hi everybody
one of purposes of this thread is to find friends that could suggest something that will save my time advancing in poker tools or maybe join me developing it
also I am open to join already existing poker team that use own poker tools

Strange detected
My HUD (I made it by myself) says I open raise from UTG1 and UTG2 8%
887 cases
but should be around 6

that was something like misclicks + something i can't say + AJo sometimes when i started
hmm 6.9% of right hands vs 6.3% that should be is a big difference for almost 1K hands
I mean poker room when I was UTG1 and UTG2 gave me top 6.3% of hands 6.9% of 887 hands

Equilab says that for UTG KQs is better than AQo

Just made a tool to get current game state into clipboard for HRC.

Here I am