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.