Special Texas Holdem Calculator Functions

A calculator that makes data reading easy, helpful, and interesting can help us tremendously in a game. Aside from providing accurate hand and pot odds plus a dozen other odds calculator functions, a poker calculator should present data well.

A good calculator is easy to use and navigate. As much as possible, calculators should provide us with everything we need on one small but readable window. It should be comprehensive but not taking too much space from our screen. It should work similar to an efficient web browser.

It would be a good bonus to have a calculator with save, print and copy features, or sending data to Excel or to friends via email. Our player report or profile can then be studied later to improve our play and see where errors should be avoided. The report where comparison between our performance and our opponent's is involved is one particular information we would like to study.

A window showing details of hand reviews allows us to study and improve on our hand selection. It shows comprehensive replays of our starting hand selection and ranking, the opponents' mucked hands, the concomitant hand analyses, and other hand histories. This helps us see our play capabilities and dangerous tendencies.

Then, from hand reviews, a good odds calculator function also quickly provides access to other data, like player profile reports and tables and graphs.

Graphs and tables help us see our overall table situation at a glance. We have no time reading sentences and paragraphs when playing online. Thus, tables that present hand ranking and graphs that show hand and pot odds can give us quick insights into the progress of our game and performance compared to our opponents.

To create quick distinctions for readability and also reduce boredom graphs and tables are rendered in highlighting colors. This makes us immediately recognize, for instance, our current session as opposed to our play history when the two are compared side by side. Different zoom levels to give clearer and more detailed views of data on the window are another good odds calculator function.

At the same time, it allows us glimpses of pocket ranking and grouping indicated by color coding. Then, the best part is when the calculator can also support the multiple tables we play with at the same time.

To really help us, calculators should not only give pertinent poker data quickly and accurately. They should also be easy and interesting to understand.