The poker community is a vibrant, ever-growing group of vloggers, podcasters, and tournament directors. But there are a handful of individuals who possess a passion for the game that goes beyond their own experience, and they’re driven by a vision for the future of poker.
The latest addition to this list is a young programmer named Chris Davis. Davis’s concept is simple but powerful. He wants to revolutionize how poker players analyze their hand. The poker analyzer is the most important tool in a player’s arsenal, and it can be used to identify leaks that can cost players dearly.
Davis describes in his latest PokerNews article how he is building his own poker analyser with open source software. This will help players improve their games. Simple Postflop is a program that allows players to have full control of their simulations. It does this by allowing users to create jobs on distributed servers. The program is also capable of calculating both pre- and postflop scenarios, taking into account ICM. This is a great benefit for tournament players.
Davis explains that the tools currently available for poker analyses are limited by what they can accomplish and how fast they can achieve it. This is because the game isn’t as simple as Go or chess, and there are many more variables to account for when making a decision. Davis’s goal is to create akk poker analyzer that can perform these calculations in real time, so poker players don’t have to wait hours for the results.
It’s a big goal, but it is achievable thanks to the recent technological advances. Back in 2015, researchers published an article in Science magazine that showed that a computer program could calculate the best course of action in a simplified form of limit Texas hold’em. That same year, Polish poker player and computer programmer Piotrek Lopusiewicz started selling his first version of the program PioSOLVER for $249.
PokerSOLVER will show you what works in the game and what does not. It can even tell you which hands are the best and worst to bluff with. This is a powerful tool that will change the way people play poker.
Black Friday might have kneecapped the poker industry, but it’s a safe bet that the game will return to the United States as a regulated and profitable business. The settlement reached between PokerStars and Full Tilt and the Department of Justice indicates that poker will return to the United States sooner than later. Traditional casinos are also working with government officials in order to make this happen.