Take Your Game to the Next Level
The primary goal of Poker Academy is to help you become a better player.
Poker Academy contains a comprehensive suite of powerful poker tools
no serious poker player should be without. You may be wondering how
you can best use these tools to improve and polish your game, and
most importantly, to increase your winnings.
Learning even one new concept or plugging one small leak in your game
will easily pay for the cost of this software many times over
once you put your new skills into action for real cash.
Practice, Practice, Practice
Poker Academy is a great practice tool. There is no substitute for
experience. With Poker Academy you can play at high speed to gain
experience fast. Unlike most humans in online play-money games, our
computer opponents always take the game seriously. Unlike real cash games,
you can experiment with new styles and learn without losing your shirt.
Practice Using Customizable Table Lineups
We offer a wide variety of different player styles to practice against.
With Poker Academy you can setup your table lineups to practice playing
against opponent's whose particular playing styles give you trouble.
If you have trouble playing with an aggressive player to your right,
you can customize a table to mirror that situation and you can practice
it over and over again until you are comfortable with it.
Your experience in these practice situations will prove invaluable.
Learn to read hands
After you play enough against the same opponents, you should be able to
develop some intuition as to what hands they are holding in various
situations. Use the peek feature to see if your suspicions are correct.
Try out new Concepts
Reading poker books is an excellent way to learn and understand new
poker concepts. As you are reading, put the concepts into practice
by trying them out in Poker Academy. The combination of a well written
reference book and the ability to demonstrate those concepts immediately
will solidify your understanding. Poker Academy makes it easy to explore
different concepts in an actual game context with its 'instant replay'
feature which you can use to play a game situation over again to see if
taking a different action would have made you more money.
Analyse Your Game
Use the Player Statistics to find leaks in your game. Use the
bankroll graphs to spot trends in your
performance over time. Compare your statistics to the statistics of other
players you have played against to discover
how your style differs. As you play hands in Poker Academy they are
recorded automatically making it extremely convenient to do post-session
analysis on the hands that you have played.
Learn the odds
It is vital to know the odds of making draws, the probability of your
hand being the best, and the odds of winning if you jam with your pocket
pair and your opponent calls you with two overcards. Poker Academy
contains several tools to help develop a good intuition for poker math.
The Sidebar's
Hand Evaluator gives real-time
stats on the strength of your hand. The
Showdown Calculator is an essential tool for
calculating the odds of any matchup of hands. Using the
showdown calculator will help you make the right judgement in tricky
all-in situations.