question about poker software

[drunkguy]

I'm thinking a decent poker software program could speed up the learning curve. I've heard decent things about the following:

Turbo Texas Hold'em (Wilson)
Poki's poker academy (Biotools)
Texas Hold'em pro (AceSpade)

Can anyone recommend one of these or another? Or is my time better spent playing online for low limit and spending more time reading?

 

[theswami]

Those who have used TTH (Wilson) love it. Personally, I've never used any software.

IMHO, buy a book and jump into 2/4. The limits lower than that are pretty bad and you will not learn much.

 

[CJH034]

Drunkguy, definitely go with Turbo Texas Hold'em and if you play tournaments I also highly recommend Wilson's Tournament Texas Hold'em (dramatically bettered my tournament play)

 

[drunkguy]

thanks guys. I downloaded demos of TTH and poki. Both were decent

I understand that the TTH advisor will often lead you astray (malmuth and sklansky said so

)

Poki was pretty cool...allows you to do a quick simulation in the middle of hands, and the players can supposedly "adapt" to your style of play. Also has a "showdown" evaluator which estimates the chance of your hand winning based on the cards thus far. Some nice tools with this one.

I'll have to sleep on it a little longer (and see if anyone else chimes in).