Live win chance
The moment you see your two cards you get your win and tie chance, recalculated on the flop, turn and river against the opponents still in the hand.
No-limit Texas Hold'em · Practice table
Play real hands.Read every street.
Sit down against computer opponents and play hand after hand. Your odds assistant updates your win chance and the cards you're waiting for as every card hits the felt.
Practice chips only. No real money, no deposits, no withdrawals, no prizes.
What is PokerPracticeSimulator?
PokerPracticeSimulator is a free browser game for practicing no-limit Texas Hold'em against computer opponents with practice chips. While you play, an odds assistant shows your chance of winning and the exact cards that would improve your hand, so you learn the math of every decision as it happens.
What does the odds assistant show you?
It shows four things on every street: your win and tie chance, the cards you're drawing to, a plain-language read of your hand, and how the computer players are acting.
Know what you're waiting for
Flush draw? Open-ended straight? See exactly which cards complete your hand, grouped by what they make, with your total outs.
Plain-language advice
No jargon walls. Every hand gets a short, honest read on how strong it is and whether it's usually worth playing.
Opponents that play back
Computer players make their own decisions — from loose beginners to tricky regulars who bluff and value-bet.
How does a practice hand work?
A practice hand works like a real one: you get two cards, then bet on the flop, turn and river until someone wins the pot.
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Pick your table
Choose how tough the computer players are and how many sit with you — or hit Random start.
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Play each street
Fold, check, call, bet or raise. Opponents act on their own and the hand plays to a showdown.
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Watch the odds move
Your win chance and outs update after every new community card. Then deal the next hand.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers first. Each answer links to a source where you can check the numbers.
Is PokerPracticeSimulator real-money gambling?
No. Every chip is a practice chip: you can't deposit, withdraw or win prizes, and you never need an account. If you run out of chips you simply rebuy for free and keep playing.
How is my win chance calculated?
Your win chance comes from a Monte Carlo simulation: the remaining cards are dealt out 12,000 times against the opponents still in the hand, and the assistant counts how often you win or tie. On the river against a single opponent it checks every possible hand exactly instead.
Source: Wikipedia: Monte Carlo method
What are outs in poker?
Outs are the unseen cards that would improve your hand to one that is likely to win. A flush draw on the flop has 9 outs and completes by the river about 35% of the time; an open-ended straight draw has 8 outs and gets there about 31.5% of the time.
Source: Wikipedia: Draw (poker)
How often does a pocket pair flop a set?
A pocket pair flops three of a kind or better about 11.8% of the time, roughly 1 flop in 8.5: of the C(50,3) = 19,600 possible flops, 17,296 contain neither of your two remaining cards, and 1 − 17,296/19,600 ≈ 11.8%. Two suited cards flop a made flush only about 0.8% of the time (C(11,3)/C(50,3) = 165/19,600), which is why suited hands are mostly about draws.
Source: Wikipedia: Combination
How do the computer opponents decide what to do?
Each computer player rates its starting hand with the Chen formula, then estimates its own win chance on later streets and bets, calls, raises or bluffs according to its difficulty level. Easy players call too much, while hard players semi-bluff draws and size bets for value.
Which poker rules does the simulator use?
It uses standard no-limit Texas Hold'em rules: two hole cards, five community cards, blinds of 10/20, minimum raises equal to the last raise, and side pots when a player is all in. The best five-card hand at showdown wins, with kickers breaking ties.
Source: Wikipedia: Texas hold 'em