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Barry Carter takes PokerSnowie 4 for a spin to see who would profit from it and the place it has limitations.
In the final couple of years I’ve finished some deep dives into GTO software program due to ebook tasks I’ve been engaged on. However, till very lately I had managed to keep away from one of many OGs in solver expertise – PokerSnowie 4.
The cause I’ve began to make use of it was as a result of it is without doubt one of the few instruments on the market the place you may get good recommendation on multi-way pots. We used it in my most up-to-date Chip Race video the place I reviewed some household pots I performed.
Since then I’ve been making myself aware of the software program and have some ideas on its strengths and weaknesses, coming at it from the perspective of someone that has been utilizing instruments like PIOSolver for a while now.
Fast and simple to make use of
Probably the very first thing to say is how briskly and simple to make use of it’s. The software program is absolutely crisp and easy, which is usually not the case with solver expertise. You can arrange palms rapidly sufficient, although fortunately not so quick that it may ever be utilized in actual time on the tables, and the hand historical past import perform is seamless.
Most solver expertise takes a very long time to unravel a hand, however Snowie makes use of a cloud based mostly library of classes discovered from trillions of palms performed in any respect desk sizes and stack depths.
The finish result’s a method that’s tough to use. Like any solver expertise, in case you are making an attempt to memorise the ranges to the letter you’re lacking out. The actual worth of solver instruments is to attempt to work out why it took the road it did, so you’ll be able to apply the teachings as heuristics on the tables. If you watch the video we did under, you will note Snowie take some very attention-grabbing traces and fortunately Dara O’Kearney was readily available to clarify them for me.
Best for money/early spots and multiway
There is a coaching characteristic which is superb. Unlike another solvers which have coaching options it simulates an entire money session or tournament, that performs on with new stack sizes after each hand, somewhat than random palms in a vacuum one after one other. After the session you’ll be able to evaluate it like you’ll be able to the hand histories you import.
One criticism is that it doesn’t look like ICM conscious in any respect, so take the MTT simulator with a pinch of salt and maybe restrict the hand historical past opinions to the pre ICM levels of tournaments. Given the endgame in MTTs is usually preflop anyway, HRC or ICMIZER offers you most of what you want there.
The actual worth of Snowie for me was the explanation that I got here to it within the first place, which was the multiway pot evaluation. It’s clearly no good for endgame multiway pots however most ICM palms are heads-up anyway. It is especially good for the early sport household pots and it has uncovered some main leaks in my sport (once more, watch the video to see simply how completely different multiway technique is). Most solvers are heads-up pots solely.
I’m an enormous fan of PokerSnowie, of all of the solvers on the market it’s maybe the quickest and most sturdy one on the market. It’s an excellent introduction to solver expertise for a beginner and a will need to have for money sport gamers. It is flawed for MTT gamers however should you go into it with the intention of finding out principally early sport and/or multiway pots you’re going to get essentially the most out of it.
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