Folded to you. Raise or fold?
Hands are dealt at their real frequency, so offsuit hands come up three times as often as suited ones. Keys: R to raise, F to fold.
This poker trainer drills the first decision in every hand: everyone has folded to you, do you raise or fold? You get two cards and a seat, you answer, and the trainer tells you what a solid 6-max opening range would do and where else the hand plays. It’s free, there’s no sign-up, and R and F on a keyboard make it quick.
How the poker trainer works
Hands are dealt at their true frequency, the same as at a real table. So you’ll see a lot of junk like 9-2 offsuit, because that’s what you’re dealt most of the time. Folding them fast is part of the skill. About 1 hand in 5 is a raise under the gun, and about half on the button.
Pick a single seat to practise the one you find hardest. The cutoff and button are where most mistakes happen, because the ranges are wide and the borderline hands, like K9o or 75s, look similar to the folds next to them.
Is this a poker solver?
No. A solver works out a strategy for a whole hand, for given stacks and bet sizes, and takes serious computing power. This trainer tests one simplified but sound opening range per seat, based on solver-style charts, rounded so you can learn it. It doesn’t mix strategies, where a hand is raised some of the time and folded the rest. Once these ranges are second nature, a solver-based tool is the next step.
Getting the most out of it
- Go for a 20-hand streak on each seat before moving on.
- Read the explanation on mistakes. “Opens from CO, BTN” tells you how close the hand was.
- Check the full grid on the poker starting hands chart after a session. Patterns are easier to see there.
To see how a hand does once it’s all-in, use the poker odds calculator.