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:

A: very tight (raises 3% of hands UTG)