Build your poker skills, one decision at a time. Holdem Coach offers practical Texas Hold'em training for new players and experienced players refreshing their fundamentals.
Short lessons, one idea at a time. Nothing is timed, so take as long as you like.
Which hands to play: Nobody has bet yet. Decide whether your two cards are worth raising with.
When someone raises: Another player has raised. Decide whether to fold, call, or raise again.
Is it worth calling?: Work out the price you are being offered and whether your hand is worth it.
Reading the cards: Look at your cards and the shared cards, and name the best hand you can make.
Which hand is in front?: Two hands are shown. Choose the one more likely to win.
Hand charts: See at a glance which two-card hands to play from each seat.
Practise your mistakes
Reads the cards, the question and the answer aloud, using your phone's voice.
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Pot odds tell one hand what equity it needs. Minimum defence frequency, pot ÷ (pot + bet), tells a whole range how much to continue: 66.7% against a half-pot bet, 50.0% against a pot-sized one, and where the formula misleads.
A c-bet is a flop bet by the player who raised before it. An unpaired hand pairs a hole card on the flop 32.4% of the time, and a bluff of size b into pot p breaks even when the opponent folds b/(p+b): 33.3% at half pot.
A 3-bet re-raises the opening raise. QQ+ and AK is 34 of 1,326 combos (2.6%). A raise to 8 over a 2.5 open risks 8 to win 4, so it needs 66.7% folds to break even before any equity.
Two forced bets, 0.5 and 1 big blind, start every hand with 1.5 big blinds in the pot. The blinds act last before the flop and first after it, and heads-up the button posts the small blind.
There are 1,326 starting hands but only 169 types: 13 pairs (6 combos each, 78 in all), 78 suited hands (4 each, 312) and 78 offsuit (12 each, 936). Holding an ace leaves 3 combos of AA instead of 6.