Do you ever wonder if the poker hand you’re holding is a good one?
Is your hand a flush, a straight, or a straight flush?
Need to settle an argument over which poker hand is better?
Well want no more! PokerPartner is a simple utility whose intuitive interface allows you to determine quickly what you are holding. PokerPartner tells you the type of hand you have, approximately how many equal or better hands could be drawn, and approximately what percentage of all possible poker hands your hand beats.
Cards are displayed either in suit or rank order. Statistics shown are based on a 52-card deck with no wildcards.
For even faster answers, rotate your device 90 degrees for a wide view that has a keypad style interface for entering your cards. Simply tap the card rank and suit, and the card is added to the row of cards on the right that represent your hand. To remove a card from your hand, simply tap it. Once you have entered 5 cards, PokerPartner tells you what you’re holding!
Don’t play your next hand without PokerPartner at your side!
Poker is ridiculously popular nowadays, online as well as in huge live poker tournaments and small private home games. What initially sparked the poker boom is not entirely clear; some say it really took off when amateur poker player Chris Moneymaker (yes, that’s his real name) won the World Series of Poker after qualifying through a $39 online satellite. Suddenly everyone figured they could turn a few bucks into millions on the felt.
Now the height of the poker boom has come and gone, but the game remains ever-present in TV shows, online, and in video games. It didn’t take long after the iPhone was launched that poker games started appearing in the App Store. Even Apple has acknowledged the popularity of poker and has developed a Texas Holdem game. If you are a poker fan looking for the right app for your iPhone there are lots of alternatives – some really good ones and some that are just awful (the movie-based Rounders for example).
Zynga Live Poker
“Live Poker” is definitely one of the top picks. If you’ve played online poker before you will feel right at home with this game, as the interface seems like it’s taken from any random online poker room.
Although you can’t play for real money, you do get to play online. It’s even integrated with Facebook and lets you connect and play with your friends, provided they have the app installed.
THTouch
If you don’t require multiplayer functionality but rather a more solitaire-style approach to waste some time with on the bus, THTouch (as in Texas Holdem Touch I would guess) is a nice alternative. Its interface is intuitive, using tapping, touching and swiping to perform actions like call, fold or raise.
MegaPoker Online
MegaPoker Online is another Texas Holdem game that is heavily inspired by regular online poker rooms. It has full multiplayer functionality and lets you play online via Wi-Fi/3G/EDGE. You get to choose between the no limit and fixed limit holdem varieties in tournament form as well as the less common pot limit betting structure.
Apple Texas Holdem
People usually expect a little more from an Apple-made application, and Apple Texas Holdem is no disappointment in that regard, as it’s one of the best poker apps so far on the iPhone. “Texas Holdem” looks and behaves as well as you’d expect, although it’s not as fully featured as some of the other offerings from a multiplayer perspective, although you can play with eight of your friends over Wi-Fi. The game has both a classic top-down view of the table or a first-person perspective.
In the unfortunate event that you don’t have an iPhone to play poker on, why not check out some traditional free online poker alternatives. Try some Party Poker free rolls for a chance of winning something for nothing.
In poker, “the nuts” is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. “Find The Nuts” is a one-player Texas Hold‘em training application that teaches users to learn to read the community cards.
Why is reading the community cards important?
In a real game of Texas Hold‘em, many players look at their hole cards then look to the community cards to identify their hand. They then identify what cards they want when new community cards are dealt.
Instead, players should read the community cards to determine the best possible hand. Identifying the nuts allows a player to understand how his hand compares to other hands and whether or not he should continue to bet.
As an example, the following cards are dealt on the flop:
6 of clubs
Ace of diamonds
Ace of spades
Someone with the remaining two Aces for hole cards (pocket Aces) has the nuts. If the 5 of clubs is dealt on the turn, the player with pocket Aces still has the nuts. However, if another club, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, or 9, is dealt on the river, the nuts changes. It’s possible that someone has a straight flush, which beats 4 Aces.
Reading the community cards tells a player where his hand ranks and what his opponents may have.
In “Find The Nuts” 3-5 community cards are dealt to the center of the game screen. The rest of the 52-card deck is in a scrollable row at the bottom of the screen. A player must choose two cards from the remaining deck for his hole cards. He should ask himself, “Which cards would give me the best five-card hand?” Once he chooses two cards and submits his answer, the application will reveal the correct hole cards and the five-card hand that comprises the nuts.
Players can practice with 3, 4, or 5 community cards; “Random” lets the application choose the number of cards; and “Progressive” deals a flop, turn, and river, representing the deal of a real Texas Hold‘em game and teaching a player to re-determine the nuts as new community cards are dealt.
Players can also practice identifying the second best hand and the third best hand, which are a little more difficult and require a more extensive analysis and understanding of the community cards.
No matter what the settings are, standard poker hand ranking applies, and a user should always remember to consider the kicker.
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