PokerStove is a program for calculating hot-and-cold equity, providing your exact chance of winning a certain hand at showdown. It’s 👏 a program that you download and run directly on your computer, as opposed to online odds calculators, which means it 👏 will generally work a lot faster.
It’s a very useful tool for analyzing hands and situations away from the tables, and 👏 allows you to specify a number of variables in order to recreate or simulate specific situations. Your cards, your opponents’ 👏 cards, their range of potential holdings, board cards and dead cards can all be individually tweaked to set up the 👏 exact scenario you wish to explore.
For instance, let’s say the player UTG raises in a 6-max limit ring game, and 👏 you call from the BB with JsTs. How are you doing on a flop of Jh-7s-7d?
The answer will depend on 👏 your opponent. Let’s break them down into four different styles of player: