7 Web Apps Every Poker Player Should Be Using!

Matt VIP• 8,042 Views • on 31/3/17

In this article, we're going to take a look at some options that - depending on your needs and workflow - can greatly enhance your experience as a poker player.

It didn't take a very long time for smartphones to become the most ubiquitous piece of technology that's currently in use. You don't have to be very old to remember Steve Jobs announcing the first iPhone and we certainly made a lot of progress since then.

However, while it's possible to play poker using online clients, the poor multi tabling support (or lack thereof) coupled with other workflow related issues makes it so that for serious players poker is still very much a personal computer type affair. Because of that smartphones can do more harm than good, by distracting us from the stuff that's happening on our computer screens.

The way of adjusting to that is by moving most of our productive endeavors (along with the poker related entertainment) from the smartphone to the PC via the use of web apps. In this article, we're going to take a look at some options that - depending on your needs and workflow - can greatly enhance your experience as a poker player.

ProPokerTools

Let's start with something absolutely every poker player can take advantage of - a web-based equilator. ProPokerTools allows you to calculate equity in many different poker formats, from the immensely popular holdem through somewhat forgotten stud variants to crazy games like 5-card PLO.

On top of that, you can create graphs showing you equity distribution of a certain hand vs. hand scenario on various board textures. If that's not good enough for you, using ProPokerTools web app you can also get the answer to just about any question you might have about poker, provided that you're willing to spend enough time to learn the PQL or Poker Querry Language (which, you can, of course, do using the information provided on the website).

On the whole, ProPokerTools is a free and powerful learning tool that you can start using today.

Evernote/Onenote

Both of those apps offer a somewhat similar functionality and can serve as a great tool for your personal poker planning and goalsetting needs. You can use them to write down your goals, create reminders and to-do lists, make notes on your opponents, the coaching videos you've watched, the database analysis that you've performed etc. etc.

Many poker players underestimate the importance of planning when it comes to poker and there's certainly some edge to be gained simply by using Evernote or Onenote app.

Trello

Similarly to the apps described above Trello can serve as a great tool for organizing all your poker related endeavors. However, the interface is significantly different. Trello is basically a big, interactive whiteboard and that makes it ideal for study groups.

You can obviously use it for your individual needs but if you have some poker playing buddies that you're trying to improve your game with Trello is a perfect tool for organizing all your study group related activities.

Join Me

Speaking of study groups turns out that there's a great web based, screen sharing app that can allow you and your friends to start an impromptu sweat session with just a few click. Join Me can be also used for other forms of interactive poker education including the most effective one - private coaching.

Screen sharing software can be a very useful tool in poker player's arsenal and given that the TeamViewer, which used to be by far the most popular, had some serious security issues in the past you might be more comfortable with the alternative platform like Join Me.

Chains

This app looks incredibly simple on the surface but doesn't let that fool you, if you set it up as the home page in your browser and spend a few minutes using it every single day, you'll gain a powerful tool in the process of habit creation.

The idea of Chains is very simple and effective according to many successful people (including a popular comic Jerry Seinfeld who used the variation of this method with a great success), by creating a chain for every habit that you wish to cultivate and marking them daily you'll create a surprisingly powerful feedback loop based on the contact with the visual representation of your progress. With each day the chain associated with each habit will grow longer and break the urge not to break it will become stronger.

Also, you can create or join groups to add some good old social pressure to the mix and boost your motivation even further.

LastPass

Given how many accounts were forced to create as internet users and given that poker is only adding to that amount, it might be a great idea to boost both your security and quality of life with an app called LastPass. With LastPass, you don't have to remember the passwords for tens or hundreds different account because the app is doing that for you.

LastPass is also encrypting your passwords, dramatically boosting your security. The app can also be used to give access to some of your accounts to other LastPass users without actually giving them your password (and with the option of revoking that privilege at any point).

LastPass reduces the hustle and boosts your security which makes it a no-brainer addition to the other apps mentioned above.