The main part of the Magic Holdem interface is the on table hud. This hud provides the key stats and will show different information and advice depending on whether you are pre-flop or post-flop.



Once the flop has bean dealt, the hud will show your main odds: your odds of winning the hand and the odds you will draw one of your outs (a card that will improve your hand) by the river. The hud also provides betting advice based on the strength of your hand. This can be a useful feature to hone your understanding of the strength of your hand and how far you should be taking that strength in terms of betting action. The tool will also provide tips and alerts during the process of the hand. In the case of the screenshot above you can see the alert that an opponent may be on a flush draw, this means that you would be best to make them pay for their draw with a bet now and play with caution if the third card to the flush lands on the turn or river. These alerts provide the sort of information that is easily missed by a beginner but is necessary to start to recognize as you develop your game.



In the case of pre-flop play, the info you need is different than post- flop and the hud changes the stats it shows to reflect this. When pre- flop, you will see the Sklansky hand group of your pocket cards and their rank out of all possible opening hands. These are both metrics of pre-flop hand strength and are useful to start to learn the strength of you pocket cards while in play. Similarly to the post- flop hud, betting advice is also displayed pre-flop.

Magic Holdem Provides a wide range of other metrics and odds and this information is available in a configurable interface. You can display as much or as little of this information as you like in order to maximize your information available or simply stick to the essentials.




In poker, your outs are the cards that could come on the turn or river that will improve your hand. It is essential as you develop your game to learn to quickly identify your outs and the odds that you will draw to these cards. Magic Holdem will display your outs in the "Outs" window as well as the odds that you will draw to these outs on the next card. One particularly nice feature of this calculator is that when you are on the flop, you can see the odds of drawing one of your outs on either the turn (displayed in the outs window) or the river (which is displayed in the on table hud).

This feature is useful as it allows some more advanced reasoning when comparing your odds of drawing to your pot odds. Consider a case where you may be drawing to say a flush and you have placed your opponent on a hand that makes you believe you will need to hit your flush to win. A common odds calculation that is adopted here is to compare the chance that you draw one of your outs to the pot odds. So if you have say 1:2 odds of drawing to your flush by the river and a call will only require you to put in chips that equal a third of the size of the pot, you have a 1:2 chance of drawing, and the pot odds are 1:3. In this case you will draw once for each 2 times you miss, but when you draw you are likely to win 3 times what you need to put into the pot to call, and so in the long run, it is profitable to call in this situation. A problem can arise here however when you make the call on the flop, you do not hit your flush on the turn and you are then faced with having to call another bet on the turn to have a chance to hit by the river. By seeing the odds that you will draw to your outs on either the turn or the river allows for some more advanced decision making on the flop to account for this sort of situation.


The tool also includes a wide range of other hand strength metrics that can be shown or hidden from the interface. Some of these metrics include the chance that you or your best opponent will hold different types of hands by the river (e.g. the chance of making that flush or full house) and a unique feature that shows your opponents "rival catch" odds. These odds show the chance that an opponent would hold different ranks of card that would combine in a strong way with the board. These sorts of odds could get you used to considering what your opponent may hold, and therefore may help the process of starting to read your opponents hands.

The tool will also show your pot odds as well as more general game information such as the number of opponents and your current made hand.

You can get a free 1 year license to Magic Holdem by signing up and making a deposit at one of the partnered poker rooms and the tool also offers a demo version with unrestricted functionality for 200 hands. If your looking for a poker odds calculator I recommend to head over to the Magic Holdem site and download the free demo version. This will let you see its full range of features and get a feel for how it can improve you game while using it at the tables.