Although nothing takes the place of practice through actual play, assistive programs can help in learning and understanding the intricacies of betting, pot odds and outs. These programs are the most popular helper programs on the market at this time.
Texas Calculatem
The Original is still King! Texas Calculatem remains the hottest selling poker odds calculator on the web and for good reason. It uses sophisticated Auto-Read technology to give you hand odds and  betting advice in real-time helping you maximize your winnings. With over 25,000 copies in active use, Texas Calculatem is the most popular odds calculator in the world. The only sure bet in poker is that one of your opponents is using Texas Calculatem. Are YOU!?
Although frowned upon in actual money games and tournaments, helper programs are very helpful for the beginner poker player. Texas Calculatem is a great program to use and best of all IT IS FREE when you open an account and make a deposit at any of the supported poker rooms.
Holdem Genius
 Be a Genius - a Holdem Genius! This is the most advanced poker odds calculator ever invented. If you're playing with Holdem Genius, then you're getting instant and accurate betting advice based on your hole cards, your pot odds, your immediate outs, and much more! Holdem Genius easily attaches to your online poker table so you never had to change screens, and it is supported in over 100 poker rooms. This is the odds calculator guaranteed to make you feel like a Genius and help you instantly win more money at the tables!
Wilson's Turbo Texas Hold'em Simulator
This is a great Texas Hold'em simulator. Play a game (a number of hands) then let Sid review your hands for mistakes for you.
The only draw back that I can see is that it is strictly a limit game that you play. I have not, as of this writing, found a setting for a no limit game but I am working with an earlier version.
Poker Office
PokerOffice is not only a real time poker odds calculator but also allows you to model your opponents and calculate probabilities of future hands, while you are playing. See below for all the features and benefits of using the poker tool from PokerOffice.
Live Game Tracking
 PokerOffice allows you to track all of your opponents actions as well as your own game, while you are playing, without any need for hand histories or user input. It stores all the collected data and brings you summarized statistics reports, spreadsheets, and graphs of you own and your opponents play.
- Real time opponent modeling of the players you are currently facing.
- Pot odds, probabilities and hand rankings.
- Overlayed statistics on the actual poker table.
- Real time profit and table tightness graphs
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Real Time Heads Up Display
A built in HUD that will overlay statistics, player actions and odds on the actual poker table. This way you will always have full control over the present game state in order to exploit weaknesses in your opponents.
- Overlays opponent statistics next to each player at the table.
- Real time action history for the ongoing hand.
- Pot odds and future hand probabilities directly on the table.
- Player icons to visualize your opponents playing style.
Poker Odds Calculator
PokerOffice gives you the ultimate poker odds calculator. See your odds for potential hands after flop, turn and river in real-time. The poker odds calculator displays your hand, the ranking of your hand and the best possible poker hand with the cards on the table.
- Real time pot odds
- Hand probabilities and outs
- Your hand, hand ranking, best hand
- Pot value
Poker Crusher
One of the key components to being a truly great poker players is to understand your opponent. You do this by close examination of past plays, style of play in certain circumstances and so on.
Close observation is tiring and WORK! This program helps you by keeping the hands played of players in a database and assigning each player a style type.
This is only good with real money ring games and tournaments and you really have to use it to understand it but it is a great program and a must have.
This program is very similar in it's function to Poker Tracker but at a cost far less and it is so much simpler to use and understand.
If you really don't want to or can't purchase the product right now you can always search out poker players from the database.
Online Poker Player Search
Poker Crusher™ tracks the strength, weaknesses, and betting patterns of over 1 million online poker players. Find out what Poker Crusher™ knows about you!
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