Hi,

I want to make my own starting hand charts with different colours for different hands and I would like to know if there is a program/app which lets you colour in different parts of the range like this:



Or is the easiest way doing it by hand in Excel or something?

I did them in Excel. Actually the chart in the pic looks like it's done in Excel.

3betting chart?
Red - 3bet
Blue - flat
Orange - 3bet or fold?

I created all of my charts in excel as well and haven't heard about an app where this is possible. I am interested in this as well.

Looks like I will be using excel - found a few programs but you have to pay for them (and I am cheap). If anyone is interested Power-Equilab does it and combonator.

A good android app I had pointed out for this stuff is Poker Game Plan.

Thanks for the help guys.

I used Equilab to build my ranges, then manually coloured parts of each chart using GIMP (a free open-source Photoshop clone). It took forever.

You can use Combonator or Power Equilab (or similar tools that are in the $30 price range) to divide ranges as per the image shown.

Oh, I just remembered http://floattheturn.com/wp/tools/range-analyzer/
You can use up to 3 colours with that free tool, and then cut/paste screengrabs into an image editor if you want to tidy them up or make a PDF.

Using the trial version of Range manager at the moment its pretty much exactly what you are looking for. Its $20 for lifetime licence.

Does flopzilla do this as well and do any of the other programs allow to print?

I went ham with building charts to study years ago and feel I got a ton out of it. I have them in three categories: First to raise, merged, and polarized.

For the “first in” charts I figured out how often I wanted to raise from each position as if everyone before me folded. At a minimum I needed to raise at least once an orbit in order to attempt to steal the blinds just to break even. That’s page 1 with each position getting its own chart.

Page two has charts for every position that I can raise from with a limper in front of me that has both my position and the limpers. If someone limps in I can tighten my range because stealing the pot here nets me an extra big blind. It’s basically a fraction of the range I would have raised in my current position at an x player table where x is the number of players minus everyone who folded before the first limper.

Page 3 has positions as if two people limped in that has my position as well as the position of the first limper. So on and so on. This goes all the way to the final page where there is only position left and every person at the table has limped in.

For my polarized and merged charts I have 100 of them. 1% range. 2% range. All the way to 100%. The actual range on the charts are half the title. So for example a 10% chart actually has 5% of the hands.

I referenced these charts when someone raises in front of me to see what the the top half of their range would be that I would continue with. In the merged charts the top half of the continue range is for reraising and the bottom half for calling. In the polarized charts the top 1/3 is for reraising and the bottom 1/6 is bluffing. Everything in the middle is for calling.

Then there are the guidelines for playing speculative hands that don’t fall on the charts.

And like everything in poker, you have to play poker. Different people play different ranges. Pre flop raise sizes effect things. Stack sizes come into play.

As I said I went overboard creating all of this. It was a good exercise though and I learned a lot about ranges, 3,4,5 bets, blind play, stealing, position and whatnot from this exercise.

lots of normal color vision bragging itt

I would pay thousands of whatever currency for a gimmick like the browser snowie preflop advisor with customizable ranges.

I purchased this product on Sunday 10/21/19, have not received my license yet, or any contact from support... Buy at own risk!

Does anyone know if range manager is still working?

Excel or Google Sheet is easy and free. Example...

Thanks. I really need the extra complexity of range manager.

Have you seen this free tool, which has three colours?
https://floattheturn.com/wp/tools/range-analyzer/

Oh! Yeah, that's a nice tool, thanks for the link.

Instead of showing the card values in the cells, I would show the raising percentile. For example, a cell would be shaded green with "60", that would mean "call" with 60% frequency to raise.

Just noticed this in range managers FAQ's

"Using Range Manager while playing on Pokerstars

You can't use Range Manager same time as Pokerstars is running, however you can use it when Pokerstars is closed."

Yep. Beware beacuse that ****ers instantly catch you and mail you some threats forcing you to apologize lol.
It happened to me twice when I forgot to close equilab before starting the client, like I would run equity calculation while playing.

actually its in a main Prohibited Software list? and that means you cant use it at all :/

Wow, that's extreme. I've done a much less radical version of that, described here. I'd appreciate of you could give me some feedback.

Whoa! That does sound extreme! Would love to bounce some ideas off each other. I use Flopzilla but not super fluent in things like Excel. I’m sure we could build useful stuff.