Use Web-based Poker Tools to Crush Online

Humans have used tools as far back as we archaeologists can track. In fact, our use of tools is what has allowed us as a species to dominate, to overcome what would otherwise seem like insurmountable obstacles—good luck living in the Arctic without tools. Given this, any poker player who is serious about turning a profit will use whatever tools they legally can to increase their edge against the competition.

The first tool most players add to their toolbox is some kind of heads up display. Playing without a HUD puts you at such a serious information disadvantage that it’s unreasonably difficult to turn a consistent profit. That’s not to say you won’t stack players from time to time, but over the long term, your game will suffer.

Two other web-based poker tools that can improve your game is 888 Poker’s “Poker Calculator” and PokerWarmUp’s Poker Session Timer.

Use the Poker Calculator in Grow Your Game

Understanding your odds of winning a hand is the difference between seeing your EV line march way up into the black and watching it dip deep into the red. Of course, that doesn’t mean profits in any given situation will follow—if someone has a 4.3% chance of beating you in a situation, it will happen, eventually. However, serious poker players know that as long as they keep making +EV decisions, they’ll be able to grind it out and turn a profit.

The Poker Calculator allows you to determine your exact odds for any given situation. You can calculate the odds in heads-up, six-max, or a full table game. All you have to do is plug in your hand, your opponents’ hands, and the board.

With this information, you can start deciding what moves are going to be +EV for you. If there’s information you don’t have, you can leave your opponents cards blank, and you’ll be given your odds of winning based on a random holding.

For example, if you want to know how A of hearts and A of spades stacks up against ten random hands, plug in your aces to find out you have a 30.5% chance of winning ahead of the flop—everyone else sitting with two random cards has 6.9%. Of course, if everyone sticks around for the flop and it comes out nasty—let’s say all diamonds—then the calculator will tell you that you have only a 13.7% chance of winning. If you want to see how a heads-up situation looks on that flop against one random diamond, fold out the rest of the players and give the one remaining player a hand with a diamond—you’re still going to have a 62% chance of scooping the pot.

The best part about the calculator is that it’s simple to use. The math is all behind the scenes, and the interface is clean and simple without limiting your abilities to really test out situations.

The poker calculator is ideal for reviewing hands to ensure you made the right choice—or to prove to friends that you made the right choice based on the odds. It can also be used in play if you’re really unsure of what to do, but are able to give your opponent a very narrow range.

As always, may the odds always be in your favor—and may you always know them.

Stay Focused with Your Poker Session Timer

You might have strong reads, top skills at determining ranges and be good at calculating your odds of winning a hand on the spot. However, poor game-time management skills can still cost you a fortune and dull your edge in a cash game.

It’s way too easy to get on the grind and dig in until your screen is blurry and your bladder is about to burst—we’ve all been there. For some, it’s hard to step away for a breather when you’re crushing. For others, it’s hard to take a break when you’re on a nasty downswing. And for nearly everybody, it’s easy to lose track of time and put in long, break-less sessions without even realizing it.

PokerWarmUp’s Session Timer tool is the cure. Pull up the site, set the amount of time you want until your first break and then start the countdown.

In general, you’re going to get the best results by taking at least a 10-minute break every 1.5-2 hours. It’s a strategy used by anyone engaged in “think-work” that is shooting for optimizing their time and effort. Short breaks are known to restore motivation, help with decision fatigue, increase creativity, and improve learning. Additionally, for poker players, it can help you manage your tilt tendencies.

Of course, the clock, which will also play relaxing background music if you want it to, is only a reminder to take a break. If you find yourself cursing at your computer, tired, or hungry—it’s time to take a break.

When you take breaks, make them “moving breaks.” Don’t just click over to Facebook for 10 minutes. Get up and go for a walk, do some yoga stretches, or even a few push-ups—just get your body moving.

Drinking water and gnawing on some healthy snacks are also a good idea during your break. You want to stay properly fueled and hydrated during your sessions.

By setting your timer as part of your pre-session warmup routine—which you can do when you create a free account on pokerwarmup.com—you can opt to review what leaks you have in your game and make a mental note to focus on those specific issues in your upcoming session.

Along the same lines, when the timer goes off and you’re ready to call it a session—rather than just taking a break—you can spend a few minutes going through a cooldown routine. Doing this will allow you to process what you’ve learned from the session and identify any mistakes or areas you’d like to see yourself improve on next session.

Use web-based poker tools to crush online

By adding the Poker Calculator and the Session Timer to your poker toolbox, you’re giving yourself the chance to grow as a poker player, as well as a way to increase your bankroll. If you’re serious about sharpening your edge in poker, you need to take advantage of every opportunity out there to improve your game.

PPPoker: play with HM2 or PT4 HUD and tracker

PPP POker HUD example
PPP Poker HUD

Having better information than your opponents when you’re playing poker is essential to being a consistent winner. Any situation where you’re able to create a positive information gap between how much you know about how your opponent plays and what can possibly be in their range in any given situation, the greater your edge — and the more money you’re going to walk away with.

The PPPoker converter works with both Poker Tracker 4 and Holdem Manager 2, which means either your standard HUD from either of those programs or your customized one will appear once you fire it up.

A heads-up display — HUD — is where all your stats are shown for individual players, as well as yourself, giving you insights into what exploitable habits they have. Do they open with too wide of a range? Do they fold too often to 3-bets? Do they 3-bet light? Your HUD will give you an idea of how best to answer these questions, as well as dozens of other essential issues that can make the difference between you being a winning player and you having to consistently re-deposit to keep playing.

Not only does tracking hands give you the necessary information to play better poker and choose the optimal strategy against individual opponents, but it also stores your hand history. This gives you the chance to go back and analyze hands by yourself or with a coach, catching leaks in your own game and allowing you to adjust how you think about certain situations to continue to improve as a player

The PPPoker converter works with both PC versions and emulators, so you’ll never be left at the table without your HUD. This is especially important on sites such as PPPoker, where the player pool is really soft and diverse, making a HUD essential.

Of course, PPPoker does have a built-in HUD. However, you have to pay a monthly fee for each account you have. This can add up fast for multi-tabling players, as they need to pay for a HUD account on each table.

The PokerMasterHUD has converters developed for PPPoker and PokerMaster. However, the PokerMaster’s one isn’t supported at the moment, so you’ll want to check back in for updates.

The EliteHUD has converters developed for PokerKing Asia, Mollys Poker (former PokerKingdom (former PokerLords) and HiPoker (former OhPOker, former Thirteen poker).

So no matter which Asian Poker Apps you’re playing in, don’t be a fish and get felted just because you don’t have the right tools to play the most optimal poker against your opponents.

PokerMaster hand history converter and HUD

PokerMaster Converter by PokerWarmUp

PokerMaster HUD allows tracking results of your play on PokerMaster  in your favorite Holdem Manager 2 software. Now you’ll be able to review your hands, statistics, track your results, and run your favorite HUD setup with any stats you want.

Install PokerMaster converter in less than 5 minutes according to this manual.

Back & Forth in WarmUp

There is a handy feature added into Your personalized WarmUp: you may go to the Previous steps and tune your WarmUp focus if needed without starting all over again. Hope you like it!

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Together with this we applied number of fixes and yeah we have new logo 🙂 How do you like it?

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Dashboard and Localization

It’s being a while since our latest update but we are keep working on Poker Warm Up improvements when have time :).

Latest update has lot of fixes (not always visibly noticeable) and several major changes which you hopefully like.

  • Dashboard has a new view and number of changes. We decided to help everyone track their activity and mood/play correlation. Just check it up after login and you’ll see how it works.                                                                                                                                                                        dashboard
  • Finally (were asked earlier by users) we’ve added Localization to the website. Now it has English and Russian but with option to add more locales. It depends on available translations. Taking into account poker language specifics we would prefer to have human translation – not Google. If you are foreign native speaker and would like to help community with translation please contact us feedback@pokerwarmup.com.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 locale
  • Registration and Sign In forms now simpler and easier to use.

Don’t forget to keep Your Game Hot every session – Warm Up!!

What better appreciation of your service can you receive in black & white ?!

great_workTranslation to other languages including Russian is the planned feature.

Dear users ! Please let us know if you are interested in helping us, yourself and speakers of your language to make this great Poker tool really available to everybody who is keen.

As for donations, for me personally the PokerWarmUp.com is in a way my own donation to her majesty Poker. For all the good changes she brought into my life.

But we will think about it 😉

Keep your Game hot, 

Keep Warming Up! 

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