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1. When changing these properties please make sure that you don t accidentally change anything before the sign Any line which begins with a character such as this one is purely a comment line and will be ignored when processed by the program You may want to add your own comments You can also use comments to make switching between properties easier For instance if you regularly switch between an initialFrameWidth of 400 and 700 then you could overwrite the original initialFrameWidth entry with these 2 lines initialFrame Width 400 initialFrame Width 700 which will start the program with a window which is 400 pixels wide To change to 700 pixels wide simply stop the program swap the location of the to give initialFrame Width 400 initialFrame Width 700 and restart If you accidentally comment out a property by preceding it with a and don t provide a replacement then the program will try to use a default value anyway e g 450 for initialFrameWidth Blank lines such as the one above are ignored so feel free to add blank lines to aid readability You can also re order any of the lines without affecting functionality and you may want to move these instructions to the bottom of the file once you re comfortable with them 24 4 1 How to change the pre flop advice You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Ed
2. but your Full House K over Q is still a truly excellent hand If you chicken out of truly excellent hands because there are very small chances of dream hands beating you you ll lose more money than by taking your chances Saying that always be aware that heart wrenching bad beats can happen The following examples demonstrate some typical scenarios and it is suggested that you try them out to see the output for yourself Example 3 a bad hand Pocket cards 7S2C unless you ve changed it the advice should say it all Fold unless you are the big blind and have the chance to check Flop AH KH QH EI ICI EN a sc ac sc sc ze ec fec froc sc ac nc ac BE 0 0 of 70 wf 2 roo 0 cof a0 A high with K Q 7 2 Current hand quality Bad Odds of reasonable hand after next card none Possible pocket hands which are better so far 9397 1081 1 similarto JH 10H Straight Flush 44 similarto JH 9H Flush 15 similar to JD 10D Straight 9 similar to AD AC 3 of akind 27 similar to AD KD CG pairs similar to AD JD Pain similarto JD 9D High card ard outs to place hand in top 120 are 0 47 Decrease font size Increase fort size Notice that your hand is not far from the bottom of the rankings Notice that almost half of the possible pocket cards which could have been dealt are currently lower than a pair but still beat yours Notice that there are no possible turn
3. suited middle 4pluscallersalready suited middle raisealready suited middle morethanoneraisealready E first in f 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers f z Tj Hm one raise already 2 raises already 00000 o CO 00 00 J 00000 Os Os Br Pe Bs z Late position Suited late firstin Suited late fewcallers suited late 4pluscallersalready suited late raisealready suited late morethanoneraisealready fF first In f 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers E 7 an one raise already 2 raises already OO 000 o 00 d G Ooa 0 2 0 0 0 9 Small blind IE first Za Q 8 suited smallblind firstin Heads up See how you feel If 1 3 callers so far Q 8 suited smallblind fewcallers Call If 4 callers Q 8 suited smallblind 4pluscallersalready Call If one raise already Q 8 suited smallblind raisealready Fold If 2 raises already Q 8 suited smallblind morethanoneraisealready Fold Big blind If 1 3 callers so far Q 8 suited bigblind fewcallers Check If 4 callers Q 8 suited bigblind 4pluscallersalready Check If one raise already Q 8 suited bigblind raisealready Fold Call if it will close the betting OR 4 in If 2 raises already Q 8 suited bigblind morethanoneraisealready Fold If for example you wish to change the advice for the situation where 1 You are dealt a suited Q 8 2 You re the big blind 3 The betting has gone round the table and you r
4. 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 AnnnAnnAnAnAnAnAnAHnDAD 10 6 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 8 5 10 8 to 1 Pot size to call 0 05 actual 0 54 effective 0 91 Pot size to call 0 10 actual 1 08 effective 1 82 Potsize to call 0 15 actual 1 61 effective 2 72 Decrease fort size Increase font size Note the Current hand quality and Odds of reasonable hand after next card lines These are designed as a quick summary of your situation for players who are either in a hurry or perhaps find the odds and rankings slightly daunting It is recommended though if possible that you study the rest of the output as this provides a more complete picture Possible pocket hands which are better so far 87 1081 are indicates that out of the possible 1081 pocket cards 46 x 47 2 which could have been dealt your hand is the 88th best This is a good ranking but it by no means brilliant The 87 possible better hands are conveniently split into type 45 other pocket cards will produce a Flush AS QS is an example and obviously any 2 different spades will also produce a flush 12 Why are there 45 Well three spades are on the board so there are ten spades which could be used to form pocket cards There are 10 possibilities for the first card which leaves 9 possibilities for the next card i e 90 total combinations of different spades However this is double counting since 4S 5S is the same as 5S 4S so
5. roc 1c ac ve ac E of o o o m o o wlofolol wle I pron Pair of A with 6 5 3 Current hand quality Borderline good Odds of reasonable hand after next card 4 in 10 Possible pocket hands which are better so far 92 1081 7similarto 6D 6C 3 of akind 21 similarto 6D 5D 2 pairs 64 similar to AC KD Pain One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 20 47 AC gives Three of a kind A with 6 5 40 1035 AS gives Three of a kind A with 6 5 40 1035 3D gives Two pain A and 3 with 6 62 1035 52 1035 3H gives Two pairs A and 3 with 6 5 1035 KD gives Pair of A with K 6 5 10371035 QD JD gives Pair of A with J 10D gives Pair of A with 10 6 5 103 KC gives Pair of A with K 6 5 103 QC gives Pair of A with Q 6 5 103 JC gives Pair of A with J 6 5 1037 1035 10C gives Pair of A with 10 6 5 103 1035 KS gives Pair of A with K 6 5 10371035 IS gives 10S gives 9D gives Pair of A with 9 6 5 11971035 SC gives Pair of A with 9 6 5 1191035 9S gives Pair of A with 9 6 5 119 1035 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 10 6 8 4 to 1 Pot size to call 0 50 actual 4 20 effective 5 99 Pot size to call 1 00 actual 8 40 effective 11 99 Pot size to call 1 50 actual 12 60 effective 17 98 Decrease font size Increase fort size A more extreme example is Pocket cards QH JH Flop and turn 10H 7H AS KD The worst card you would want to s
6. 0 25 seconds 0 6 seconds 0 10 seconds 30 Windows 2000 laptop 1 0Ghz Intel 1GB RAM onboard graphics card Flop output Turn output River output 4 4 seconds 12 1 seconds 0 32 seconds 1 4 seconds 4 0 seconds 0 34 seconds 0 6 seconds 1 8 seconds 0 29 seconds For info we can and do successfully use the Windows XP machine alongside a variety of Internet poker applications without any need to panic waiting for responses Most sites give you considerably longer than 10 seconds to decide and most of the time you will be waiting for others to decide before you In addition the slowest responses are from the best hands so in these circumstances you are likely to know exactly what to do Anyway During the benchmark testing the actual RAM taken up by the application is typically less than 30MB Tip if you re using Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 alongside Internet poker since the Internet poker application should have priority over Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 you may wish to lower the priority of Blitzwood PokerDjinn V1 0 if your version of Windows supports it In Windows XP right click on the Taskbar select Task Manager click on the Processes tab right click on BlitzwoodPokerDjinn exe click on Set Priority and change it appropriately 31 7 Glossary 7 1 Blitzwood PokerDjinn terms These are terms used elsewhere in this documentation and are specific to Blitzwood PokerDjinn 2 card out this is used to describ
7. and you can lose big money On a bad day especially in low limit Internet games there are players who wrongly keep betting calling with 7 2 off suit yet often seem to fluke a three of a kind on the turn and river On other bad days you get dealt more trash hands than quality hands and when you do get dealt AC and AD the next four cards are all spades Bear in mind how pot odds work If your hand after the turn is A high and if the pot size is 1 50 and you are faced with calling a 0 10 bet to see the river for a 20 chance of a nut flush and expect no raises afterwards then that is a very good bet to call Most of the time 4 out of 5 the river will be unkind and you will lose the hand and all the money you invested in it but the point is that the money you make in the long term from the 1 in 5 times that the river is kind should outweigh the losses provided the pot size is sufficient to justify the call Also bear in mind the concept of implied odds Read a good poker book for details but an example is if the person following you ALWAYS calls every bet then you can reasonably assume that his her money can be added to the pot when considering the pot size 29 6 System Requirements and benchmarks Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 does extensive calculations during the post flop stages and therefore takes some time thinking before results are displayed Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 CAN run on relatively slow machines but
8. beware of the dangers when looking at odds for non nuts hands Obviously if you re looking at odds for nuts hands then regardless of raises before you the odds and pot size are the primary consideration since if you achieve a nuts hand the current quality of other players hands is immaterial Now suppose that a 7D is dealt The output now looks like 14 Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 450 x 512 EEE EGER ESET ef xc ec sc ec re ec vcr0c ve oc enc SS gt 50 o0 Fol 0 00 0 co wo 0 Pair of K with Q 10 7 Current hand quality Borderline poor Odds of reasonable hand after next card 1 in 12 Possible pocket hands m 45 similar to 15 similar to 10 similar to 45 similar to 4similarto AD One card outsto place which are better so far 1297 1035 S QS Flush BD Straight gt 10C 3 of akind OD 6D 2 pairs AC Pain hand in top 120 are lt C gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 82 990 Three of a kind K with Q 10 wo Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 8 7 10 5 to 1 ot size to call 0 10 actual 1 05 effective 2 56 Pot size to call 0 20 actual 2 10 effective 5 12 Pot size to call 0 30 actual 3 15 effective 7 68 Decrease fort size Increase fort size Note that the 7D has not helped your hand but may have helped others The output is very similar to before except the relative ranking of your hands and out cards has generally got
9. games to aid your decision making It is NOT a game Please note that it is your responsibility to check the legality of using this software alongside any Internet poker site you may use To play alongside Intenet poker you need a fairly fast machine See Chapter 6 System Requirements and benchmarks for further information A basic working knowledge of Texas Hold em poker is assumed so this program is not aimed at complete poker novices It assumes for instance that you know what a full house is and what the big blind is and for the odds calculations assumes at least that you have some familiarity with odds See the next section for more information on odds The primary features are Tt can be used to display advice for pre flop betting decisions and you can update the advice to reflect your playing style After the flop appears your current hand ranking and value is shown as well as a complete list of all turn cards which will give you a high ranking hand and what that hand will be It also provides a report on the number of other possible pocket cards which other players might possess which are currently better than yours These are split into a count of each type of potentially better hand e g pair full house etc with an example of 2 typical cards which would produce these better hands If you have a chance of improving your hand e g you have a straight draw after the next card is dealt and the new han
10. if you re intending to use it alongside Internet poker applications then you will need a faster PC with sufficient resources to run both applications at the same time See the benchmarks section below System requirements Operating CPU speed Screen system resolution Absolute Windows NT 1 0GHz 512MB 800x640 minimum 2000 XP Recommended Windows NT 1 5GHz 512MB 1024x768 standalone 2000 XP For use with Windows NT 2 2GHz 512MB 1024x768 Internet poker 2000 XP Benchmarks Better hands take longer to produce output so we have provided benchmark response times for output resulting from the flop turn and river for three games on a variety of PCs Note the response time after the river is virtually the same regardless of previous cards Game slow and unfortunately rare Pocket cards 9S 9C Flop cards 9H 9D AH Turn AS River any Game 2 a typical hand Pocket cards AD KC Flop cards JS 10H 9C Turn 6S River any Game 3 a bad hand Pocket cards 7D 2C Flop cards 5H 9S QH Turn AS River any Windows NT 2 6GHz 1GB RAM no separate graphics card Flop output Turn output River output 1 6 seconds 5 3 seconds 0 13 seconds 0 6 seconds 1 6 seconds 0 14 seconds 0 3 seconds 0 8 seconds 0 13 seconds Windows XP 2 2Ghz Athlon equivalent 1GB RAM separate graphics card Flop output Turn output River output 1 4 seconds 5 1 seconds 0 10 seconds 0 5 seconds 1 4 seconds 0 10 seconds
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12. one where your current hand is not very good but could become very good if certain cards are dealt Flop the first three board cards which are dealt simultaneously Gut shot usually applies to a draw to complete a straight where a card in the middle of the straight is required Can also apply to any similarly unlikely draw Heads up Only you and one other player are currently in the hand Implied odds These are the pot odds which result from including bets which you can safely expect to be put into the pot after you either in the current betting round or later Kicker usually refers to the situation where one of your pocket cards forms a pair with one on the board and the other pocket card doesn t The other pocket card is the kicker which comes into play when comparing your hand with another player s hand if he she has the same pair If the flop is KS 9D 5C and your pocket cards are KC 2H then you have a top pair with a bad kicker If instead your pocket cards are KC AH then you have a top pair with an excellent kicker Nuts the best possible hand at the current time in the game Out a card you need to make a good and particularly a winning hand Pocket cards the two cards each player is dealt which are hopefully only known to them Pocket pair the situation where your pocket cards are a pair Pot odds essentially the size of the pot compared to how much you need to put into the pot to continue playing Rive
13. or move your hand into the top 120 NOTE the arbitrary limit of 120 is an attempt to blandly distinguish good hands from bad hands If after using Blitzwood PokerDjinn for a while or perhaps for specific situations e g large tables where you may only wish to play with premium hands you wish to alter this limit See the section 4 4 How to change the borderline limit from 120 The first 2 lines indicate that a turn card of KC or KH will give you a three of a kind and that after one of those turn cards has been dealt that there will only be 61 possible pocket hands out of a total of 1035 which can beat you Similarly the next 2 lines indicate that a turn card of OCT or QH will give you 2 pairs and that after one of those turn cards has been dealt that there will only be 83 possible pocket hands out of a total of 1035 which can beat you Note that QS will also give you a 2 pairs but this is not mentioned as a viable out card since anybody else with any spade will have a better hand Your actual ranking will then be far below 120 and betting on the possibility of the QS is a bad idea Yes it is true that IF a QS is dealt then all is not completely lost as you have an 8 7 chance of hitting a Full House after that but the chance of this route occurring is less than 1 in 500 at this moment Most 2 card outs where you need a specific few cards on both the turn and the river and you ll still have a badly ra
14. we can divide 90 by 2 to get the correct count Luckily you don t need to worry about this as it s calculated for you There are 7 3 of a kind s which are better Why 7 Any pocket pair of 6 s will form a threesome with the 6S The possibilities are 6C 6D 6C 6H 6D 6H i e 3 possibilities Similarly any pocket pair of 10 s will form a threesome with the 10S i e another 3 possibilities A pocket pair of kings will also form a threesome BUT you already have the KD The only possibility for three kings from another player is therefore KC KD The total possible number of pocket cards producing a 3 of a kind is therefore 7 Again you needn t worry about the internals this is calculated for you There are 21 2 pairs which are better Why 21 There are 2 remaining kings and 3 remaining tens to form the K 10 2 pair i e 6 possibilities 2 remaining kings and 3 remaining sixes to form the K 6 2 pair i e 6 possibilities and 3 remaining tens and 3 remaining sixes to form the 10 6 2 pair i e 9 possibilities totaling 21 possibilities in all There are 14 pair hands which are better Why 14 There are 6 possible pocket pairs of aces which produce a higher pair than yours Also pocket cards consisting of one of the 4 aces with one of the 2 remaining kings i e 8 possibilities will also produce a pair hand which beats yours There next follows a list of the possible cards which will either keep
15. 00 actual 31 50 effective 31 92 SPLIT POT OUT CARDS HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THE POT ODDS CALCULATIONS Decrease fort size Increase font size 20 Note that any Jack on the river will be GUARANTEED to split the pot In other words regardless of whatever pocket cards the other players have the 5 board cards will be equal or better so all players will get an equal share of the pot Why is the split pot being indicated The main reason is that the 4 outs which produce the split pot will not give you nearly as much profit as those in which you win the hand outright unless the other player s are silly enough to fold IF you re now heads up with one other player then these outs still have some value effectively that of half of an out each otherwise the outs have somewhat less value For the odds calculation to be on the safe side Blitzwood PokerDjinn assumes that these outs have zero value so the odds produced in our example ONLY relate to those outs for a Full House In these circumstances the real world pot size to call will still be fairly accurate if there are several players still in but can be reduced accordingly if you re one of two IF a Jack appears on the river the main output window will show that there no better hands than yours but also display SPLIT POT Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 485 x 280 0 504 00 2s as es ss os 7s os os Jus os os xs as rai on of ef on re on
16. 1035 12 similarto 10D 10C Full House 45 similarto AS QS Flush 4similarto AD KH 3 of akind One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 37 46 QC gives Full House K over Q 0 990 KH gives Four of a kind K with Q 0 990 OH gives Full House K over Q 0 990 10D gives Full House K over 10 1 990 10C gives Full House K over 10 1 990 10H gives Full House K over 10 1 990 QS gives Full House K over Q 2 990 6D gives Full House K over6 4 990 DC gives Full House K over6 4 990 DH gives Full House K over6 4 990 5D gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 67 990 4D gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 3D gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 2D gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 5C gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 4C gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 3C gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 2C gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 67 990 5H gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 67 990 4H gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 3H gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 2H gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 67 990 AD gives Three of a kind K with A Q 74990 AC gives Three of a kind K with A Q 4990 AH gives Three of a kind K with A Q 74990 SD gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 82 990 7D gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 82 990 SC gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 8
17. 2 990 7C gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 82 990 SH gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 82 990 7H gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 82 990 JD gives Three of a kind K with Q J 69 990 JC gives Three of a kind K with Q J 69 990 JH gives Three of a kind K with Q J 69 990 SD gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 93 990 9C gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 93 990 SH gives Three of a kind K with Q 10 93 990 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 21 7 3 6 to 1 Pot size to call 0 10 actual 0 36 effective 0 36 Potsize to call 0 20 actual 0 72 effective 0 72 Potsize to call 0 30 actual 1 08 effective 1 08 Decrease fort size Increase font size 16 Your hand is now good but there is always the lurking danger of a flush from any player with two spades and if there is some excitement in the betting then this is a definite possibility Saying that the output shows you some wonderful possible outs namely any Q 10 or 6 will give you a virtual nuts Full House and the remaining King will give you a nuts 4 of a kind The odds section indicates that there is a 21 7 chance 3 6 to against of one of these 10 outs occurring so if the pot size is sufficient it s worth a call Also note that since the hands you re drawing to are virtually the nuts the effective pot size is the same Yes a QS can still be beaten by a player with AS JS or JS 9S for a Straight Flush
18. Blitzwood PokerDjinn 1 0 User Manual Blitzwood PokerDjinn 1 0 Blitzwood Ltd 2006 Index 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome to Blitzwood Poker Djinn 1 0 1 2 Understanding odds 2 Installation 3 Blitzwood PokerDjinn in detail 3 1 The main sections of the program window 3 2 How to enter cards 3 3 The betting buttons 3 4 Pre flop output 3 5 Post flop output 3 6 A warning Improving your hand does not always improve your ranking 3 7 2 card outs 4 How to change elements of the configuration Advanced 4 1 How to change the pre flop advice 4 2 How to change the betting structures for fixed limit games 4 3 How to change the initial program window size 4 4 How to change the borderline limit from 120 4 5 How to change the playing card button font 4 6 How to change the status panel font 4 7 How to change the main output window font 4 8 Other configuration 5 Snippets of advice especially when using with Internet poker applications 6 System Requirements and benchmarks 7 Glossary 7 1 Blitzwood PokerDjinn terms 7 2 Some general poker terms used in this document 8 Technical Support 9 Feedback 10 User License Agreement 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome to Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 Blitzwood PokerDjinn is a standalone Windows application which can be used to help improve your Texas Hold em poker skills and can also be used alongside real time Internet poker
19. K button will remove that card This is also of great use if you are trying out different what if scenarios in that you can see the results of a particular card being dealt and then reverse it by clicking BACK and try a different card etc If you have dealt a number of cards but wish to abandon the hand click CLR to remove all dealt cards and reset the display This is particularly relevant whilst running alongside Internet poker since a significant proportion of hands are not generally worth pursuing to the showdown 3 3 The betting buttons After a default installation of Blitzwood PokerDjinn the program window will open with 3 betting buttons with labels 0 05 0 10 0 25 0 50 and 0 50 1 00 Also note that there is a left arrow and right arrow to either side of the betting buttons which scroll through lots of other options for betting button values The left arrow is only active after you have scrolled right The primary purpose of these buttons is in fixed limit games to provide the size of the pot and an effective pot size required to call a bet where there are possible outs to improve your hand If you re playing a fixed limit game click the button which corresponds to the betting structure of the game you re playing Please see below if your betting structure is not one of the ones shown As an example pressing the 0 25 0 50 button will perform the calculation of pot sizes for fix
20. QC QH Note that all of the possible cards which leave your hand unimproved are not included The chances of you hitting one of these cards is 4 47 8 5 10 8 to 1 against If you don t think your pair of kings is currently winning but that 2 pairs or 3 of a kind will be winning then the pot odds are correct for you to call ONE bet of 0 05 IF the current pot size or expected pot size if more flat calls are guaranteed to follow you is 0 54 or greater Also an effective pot size required to call one bet is also displayed Note that if one of your four desired cards is dealt on the turn then your hand is actually still not brilliant If you re drawing to a non nuts hand i e the hand you are hoping for is not the best possible then it s reasonable to effectively drop the pot odds since you re also risking drawing to a losing hand The effective pot size is therefore an adjusted required pot size based on the quality or nutsness of the possible improved hands Finally for convenience the pot sizes required to call multiple bets are also displayed Remember for this hand that the improved hands for which the odds are displayed are nowhere near the nuts If there were raises from sensible players before you and you were faced with calling more than one bet you d possibly assume that very strong hands were in play e g AS and another spade so you d probably fold The effective pot size reflects this somewhat but
21. TION OF USE OF AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS BLITZWOOD MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE OR FREE FROM INTERRUPTIONS OR OTHER FAILURES OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS SOME STATES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU The foregoing provisions shall be enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law Limitation of Liability UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY WHETHER IN TORT CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE SHALL BLITZWOOD OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL WORK STOPPAGE COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OR FOR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES IN NO EVENT WILL BLITZWOOD BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF THE LIST PRICE BLITZWOOD CHARGES FOR A LICENSE TO THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF BLITZWOOD SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY TO THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION FURTHERMORE SOME STATES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THIS LIMITATION AND EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU The foregoing provisions shall be enfor
22. al nuts or near nuts hands you may want to reduce this value BORDERLINE LIMIT 120 To change the value to say 100 simply change the line to be BORDERLINE LIMIT 100 4 5 How to change the playing card button font You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration The following properties govern the text size and font used for the betting buttons and the 52 playing card buttons Increase the size if the button text is too small The safest values are 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 20 and the default is 11 If you wish to change the font you can specify one you know to be on your machine e g buttonFont Courier or buttonFont Arial Narrow or you can specify one of the following Serif SansSerif Monospaced Dialog and DialogInput The default and recommended value is SansSerif buttonFontSizeInPixels 1 1 buttonFont SansSerif As an example if you deliberately want the button text to be a little larger than the default and the font to be Times New Roman and you know that Times New Roman is on your machine then change the lines to be buttonFontSizeInPixels 12 buttonFont Times New Roman 4 6 How to change the status panel font You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration The following properties govern the text size and font used for the status panel immediately to the right of the
23. blitzwood co uk For information some features already being considered for inclusion in later versions of Blitzwood PokerDjinn include An easier means to change the advice configuration e g via menu options Attempts to increase the speed of the processing Possible facility for advice in the post flop stages Consider the inclusion of some 2 card out situations Enhance calculations in split pot situations and effective pot size Possibly include some whizzy graphics and sound for those who like them provided nothing else is compromised 34 10 User License Agreement The following License Terms govern your use of the accompanying Software unless you have a separate signed agreement with Blitzwood Ltd SOFTWARE LICENSE NOTICE TO ALL USERS CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LEGAL AGREEMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE LICENSE OF SPECIFIED SOFTWARE SOFTWARE BY BLITZWOOD LIMITED Blitzwood BY INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE YOU EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR A SINGLE ENTITY CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY AND BECOME A PARTYTO THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE IF APPLICABLE YOU MAY RETURN THE PRODUCT TO THE PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A REFUND License Grant Subject to the payment of the applicable license fees and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement Blitzwood hereby grants to you a non exclusive non transferable right to use the Software and the accompanying
24. cards which can raise your hand into the top 120 and that there no odds for anything The advice should be quite clear hope that everybody checks until the end of the hand and you fluke a couple of sevens excluding 7H otherwise fold 17 Example 4 A classic open ended straight draw Pocket cards JD 10C Flop QD 9S AH A high with Q J 10 9 Current hand quality Bad Odds of reasonable hand after next card 1 in amp Possible pocket hands which are better so far 5687 1031 9 similar to AD AC 3 of akind 27 similar to AD 9D 2 pairs 396 similarto AD KD Pain 136 similarto KD 10D High card One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 8 47 KD gives Straight 10 to A 0 1035 SD gives Straight 8 to Q 0 1035 KC gives Straight 10 to A 0 1035 SC gives Straight 8 to Q 0 1035 KH gives Straight 10 to A 0 1035 Straight8 to Q 0 1035 Straight 10 to A 0 1035 ves Straight S to Q 0 1035 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 17 0 4 9 to 1 ot size to call 0 05 actual 0 24 effective 0 24 Pot size to call 0 10 actual 0 49 effective 0 49 Pot size to call 0 15 actual 0 73 effective 0 73 Decrease font size Increase font size Your hand is currently bad but there are 8 outs i e any K or 8 for the turn which will give you the best possible hand at that time The odds of obtaining one of these outs are 4 9 to against so calling a bet of 0 05 is very reasonable if
25. ceable to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law High Risk Activities The Software is not fault tolerant and is not designed or intended for use in hazardous environments requiring fail safe performance including without limitation in the operation of nuclear facilities aircraft navigation or communication systems air traffic control weapons systems direct life support machines or any other application in which the failure of the Software could lead directly to death personal injury or severe physical or property damage collectively High Risk Activities Blitzwood expressly disclaims any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities Miscellaneous This Agreement is governed by the laws of the United Kingdom without reference to conflict of laws principles The application of the United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded This Agreement sets forth all rights for the user of the Software and is the entire agreement between the parties This Agreement supersedes any other communications with respect to the Software and Documentation This Agreement may not be modified except by a written addendum issued by a duly authorized representative of Blitzwood No provision hereof shall be deemed waived unless such waiver shall be in writing and signed by Blitzwood or a duly authorized representative of Blitzwood If any provision of this Agreement is held in
26. ch can be used for reference just in case your editing is over zealous As a last resort you can re install the application and start again IMPORTANT NOTE after changing ANY configuration entries you will need to stop and restart Blitzwood PokerDjinn for the changes to take effect The top of the file BlitzwoodPokerDjinnConfig properties contains some general advice on editing it which is reproduced here This is the properties file which governs the behaviour of the overall BlitzwoodPokerDjinn program When editing this file it may be advisable to maximise the window A few lines of instructions follow which should be read first Scroll down if necessary to find the lines which you might want to change This file consists of comment lines to provide helpful comments and also contains configuration properties which can be used to change certain features if desired You will need to stop and restart the program before any changes will take effect An example of a property is the line initialFrameWidth 450 This line indicates that the width of the program window at startup will be 450 pixels wide For info a typical screen size on a newish Windows PC will be 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels height If you think that the window should be wider close the program and change the line to be e g initialFrameWidth 600 Then restart the program to see if the initial width is more appropriate
27. d is sufficiently high ranked compared to other player s possible hands then odds calculations are also performed which indicate the chances of improving your hand For fixed limit games the pot size required to give you the correct odds to call bets is displayed Similar features apply after the turn card is dealt After the river has been dealt your current hand is again ranked against all other possible hands What if scenarios can be played out easily The main application window can take up relatively little screen space so that it can co exist with a typical Internet poker window with little or no need to switch windows because information is partially obscured What PokerDjinn is not Tt is NOT a game There is no guarantee that you will suddenly start making money by using this Used as a guide it may help though There are no fancy graphics The focus of development has purely been on brute force and accurate calculation It does not interact directly in any way with any Internet poker applications There are applications which do this but they are often either tied in to one site or require hidden investments As PokerDjinn is an independent application you can use it to experiment with fictitious scenarios to improve your game without being under pressure of being in a real game at the time Note that monetary amounts are not prefixed by a currency symbol This is to prevent confusion if for instance the pr
28. display showing which playing cards you have selected The comments for the buttonFont properties also apply to these properties statusSizeInPixels 12 statusFont SansSerif As an example if you deliberately want the status panel text to be a little larger than the default and the font to be Courier and you know that Courier is on your machine then change the lines to be statusSizelnPixels 12 statusFont Courier 27 4 7 How to change the main output window font You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration NOTE the font size of the main output window can be altered during play by using the Decrease font size and Increase font size buttons The change below ONLY affects the initial font size at startup The following properties govern the text size and font used for the main output window To change the text size alter the mainOutputFontSize property to a suitable size ideally one of 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 20 Beware that larger values may mean that you might need to scroll down in the main output window if the output is sufficiently large D To change the font either specify a font you know to be on your machine e g mainOutputFont Courier or use one of the following values serif sans serif monospace Note the slight difference in format between these and the status and button fonts above mainOutputFontSize 8 mainOut
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30. e faced with calling two or more raises 4 You want your advice to say Go for it as you ve never lost a hand with Q8 suited before then simply find the line in the properties file beginning Q 8 suited bigblind morethanoneraisealready and change the word Fold to the phrase Go for it as you ve never lost a hand with Q8 suited before IMPORTANT Do not change anything in the first 48 columns of any line i e the bit before the advice If you wish to create a long sentence for your particular advice entry and want the line to break at a particular point then you can insert the characters lt br gt including the lt gt signs at the point you wish the break to occur The exact results may depend on the size of your main application window so it s recommended that you test the change first 25 4 2 How to change the betting structures for fixed limit games You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration Here is the relevant section in the properties file including comments The following three properties are used to give you betting buttons at the top of the program window which give you a choice of three betting structures for fixed limit games The buttons are used to calculate odds The values are those of the pre flop and flop betting rounds and there is an assumption that the bets will double for the turn and river rounds The buttons will show
31. e situations where you require TWO specific cards to achieve a particular desired hand As an example if your pocket cards are 2 spades and the flop contains one spade then a 2 card out for a flush would be any spade on the turn followed by any spade on the river Betting buttons See 3 1 The main sections of the program window Borderline limit After the flop stages certain elements of the displayed output rely on a hand s ranking amongst all possible other hands which might be in play If the hand s ranking is better than the borderline limit it is considered good enough to be included in the display and certain odds calculations The default value is 120 which means that a given hand is considered good if of all the possible other hands which might exist at the current time less than 120 are better than the given hand For info in a 10 handed game IF all the other players stay to see the flop then there is approximately a 1 in 3 chance that all the other players have a hand currently ranked below 120 In a 6 handed game the chance is slightly better than evens 1 in 2 Dealt card display See 3 1 The main sections of the program window Effective pot size to call If you are for example hoping for one of a particular set of cards to be dealt next to achieve a nuts hand and the odds are 4 to 1 against then the pot size required to call a bet should be a minimum of 4 times the size of the bet to make the call justi
32. ed limit games where the initial and flop betting rounds have a minimum bet of 0 25 and the river and turn betting rounds have a minimum bet of 0 50 Once you have changed the stakes the new values will stay in place until you either close the application or change them again So if you re spending the evening only playing on a 0 50 1 00 table you just need to start the application press the 0 50 1 00 button and it s set until you re finished If you are not interested in fixed limit games then odds and pot sizes will still be displayed but you can safely ignore these buttons Any output relating to pot sizes is largely irrelevant since for no limit games you will be partly basing your decisions on the odds instead Once the application is initially started the default bets in place are 0 05 0 10 Of course you may be playing for higher or different stakes entirely than those provided for you In that case see the section 4 2 How to change the betting structures for fixed limit games You may be wondering why there are multiple buttons The main reason is that whilst playing Internet poker you may be involved in or regularly switching between more than one game with different stakes The buttons enable you to easily change stakes without the need to close the application NOTE If you re currently in the middle of a hand in the post flop stages and you change the stakes the output will be recalculated to reflect the n
33. ee is AH which improves your hand to an Ace high flush but leaves 35 possible better hands The equal best card you want to see is 2C This keeps your current straight the nuts and helps nobody else The moral of this section is simply not to blindly look at the odds output It probably has the most value when drawing from nothing to a flush and or straight 22 3 7 2 card outs At the flop stage Blitzwood PokerDjinn does not deliberately attempt to calculate or handle odds for outs to possible hands which rely on a relatively small set of cards appearing on BOTH the turn and the river Partly the calculations would be prohibitively expensive to perform and also the odds against such occurrences are usually too small to make much of a difference to your immediate betting decision IF one of the desired turn cards actually improves your hand significantly at that stage then it may be a good bet anyway and will be reflected in the main output window Here s one of the most borderline cases you may wish to be aware of Pocket cards AS 2S Board cards 4C 8C JS The main output window tells you that there is a 4 3 chance of achieving a pair which is positioned a lowly 112th i e 111 potential hands are better than it The flop has missed you and calling any bets would be a dubious decision However you may be thinking that your odds of winning the hand are better than they seem since any two spades on the turn and
34. elevant playing card button Each card dealt will appear in the Dealt card display Spades are represented by the row 2S 3S etc up to AS Hearts are represented by the row 2H 3H etc up to AH Clubs are represented by the row 2C 3C etc up to AC Diamonds are represented by the row 2D 3D etc up to AD For example after starting the program to deal your pocket cards of the Ace of diamonds and 10 of clubs simply click on AD followed by 10C Some advice output should appear in the main output window If the flop cards are then the Ace of clubs the 10 of hearts and the King of diamonds click on AC 10H and KD There will be a small delay whilst the application calculates the state of your hand and the output will then change to display the results Notice that the status window now displays Two pairs A and 10 which is the current value of your hand If the turn is the four of spades click on 4S Again the state of your hand is recalculated and the output changes accordingly Finally if the river is the 10 of spades click 10S The status window now indicates that your hand is now Full House 10 over A Your final hand is then ranked amongst all possible others and the output displayed If you accidentally try to deal a card which has already been dealt e g AD followed by AD the status window will display DUPLICATE If you accidentally deal a card which you didn t mean to deal clicking the BAC
35. er who has folded the last 50 hands before the flop is likely to indicate a very strong hand but a raise from a player who always raises every hand can indicate anything These kinds of considerations your position in the betting rounds your chip count the number of players in the game etc should all form part of your decision making as well as the statistics about your hand ranking and odds etc Blitzwood PokerDjinn does not simulate situations in real games with various numbers of other players who might raise fold call etc If you need to make a decision whether to risk a bet for a certain out card the odds are a very useful feature to help make the decision however the pot size could have reached its present value by either having lots of callers or a smaller number of raisers In the latter case the raises might indicate that there are some very strong hands in play so in that case you might want to only consider betting if you re drawing to an unbeatable nuts hand No software can read the minds of other human players Read the post flop section thoroughly Be aware of some of the rare situations where the odds and hand rankings albeit correct provide limited value e g split pot situations If you like to take notice of the pre flop advice make a note of the pocket cards for which you might like to alter the advice and change it ready for next time Even playing perfect poker luck still plays a major part
36. ew bets As this may use up valuable thinking time it is recommended that you set the stakes at the beginning of the hand 3 4 Pre flop output Once your pocket cards have been dealt i e you ve clicked on 2 different cards you should be presented with some advice in the main output window This advice is not necessarily the best or most appropriate advice for all players in all situations it is merely some reasonable combinations of general advice gleaned from several sources It generally errs on the side of caution and also adopts the common advice that you should not call if all earlier players in the round have folded apart from the blinds This may not be appropriate for your style of play Also be aware that you may wish to loosen your requirements for starting hands if the other players rarely raise and you may wish to tighten your requirements if there are habitual raisers in your current game The main point of the advice is that you can change it to suit your own experiences and playing style See the section 4 1 How to change the pre flop advice for details Since your position in the betting round and what has happened before can make a big difference to your choice of whether to bet or fold the advice is generally split into the following positions You are early in the betting round e g in a 10 handed game the first 2 or 3 positions after the big blind You are middle in the bettin
37. fakind Qsimilarto QC 7D Full House 84similarto AD QC 3 of akind 12 similarto AD AC 2 pairs One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 36 47 JH g s Full House J ower Q 97410 JS gives Full House J over Q 9 1 Full House Q ower J 67 10 s Full House Q over J 57 10 10D gives Two pairs Q and J with 10 10771035 ON niwar Timin naire N and I fimith OY ANTRAL Notice that the difference is in the possible 2 pairs Example 9 Split pots Pocket cards KS QC Flop and turn AD KC QH 10S The main output window looks like ste oe Bl A2 Bo Bo bd Bee KH Ba aD fojofolojololoiofmlolofolo ve oe fe pe e pe keent Two pairs K and Q with A Current hand quality Poor Odds of reasonable hand after next card 1 ind Possible pocket hands which are better so far 2031035 174similarto KD JD Straight Ssimilarto 10D 101 of a kind 21 similarto AC KD 2 pairs One card outs to place hand in top 120 are BAG wes Straight 10 to A 0 990 raight 10 to A 0 99 Straight 10 to A 0 990 SPLIT POT Straight 10 to A 0 990 SPLIT POT lt D g Full House er Q 6 990 KH gives Full House K over Q 6 9 QD gi Full House Q over K 7 990 QS g Full House Q over K 7 990 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 8 7 10 5 to 1 Pot size to call 1 00 actual 10 50 effective 10 64 Pot size to call 2 00 actual 21 00 effective 21 28 e to call 3
38. fiable If however the quality of the hands you re hoping to achieve are not nuts hands then the pot size to justify calling bets should be adjusted upwards The result of this upward adjustment is the effective pot size Main output window See 3 1 The main sections of the program window Playing card buttons See 3 1 The main sections of the program window Pre flop advice the output in the main output window which you see after dealing your pocket cards Ranking A count of the possible number of other hands which might exist which are better than a given hand As an example if your pocket cards are AD AS and the flop is AC KD KS then of the possible 1081 hands which players could currently hold the only one better than yours is the one where a player holds KH KC Your ranking is 1 or 1 1081 Status Panel See 3 1 The main sections of the program window Window Title See 3 1 The main sections of the program window 32 7 2 Some general Texas Hold em poker terms used in this document Bad beat a situation where your excellent hand ends up being beaten usually luckily by an even better one Big blind the position at the table where you are required to put in a full bet before playing the hand It is one position clockwise from the small blind Board cards the five cards dealt in the middle which all players can use to form their best hand Also known as community cards Draw A drawing hand is
39. fo os Pr ov ny rac fac ac sc sc J 7c J oc sc foc vc ac xc ac rap 1 Leo o sof ao w a0 Straight 10 to A Current hand quality EXCELLENT Possible pocket hands which are better so far 0 990 none SPLIT POT Decrease font size Increase font size This means that you can avoid wasting time with raises which make no difference to the end result It goes without saying that if there are no better hands than yours and there is not a split pot raise as much as you can A final note only GUARANTEED split pots are shown Certain strong boards e g AAAKK stand a good chance of producing a split pot in practice but also stand a good chance of being beaten 21 3 6 A warning Improving your hand does not always improve your ranking Look at and try for yourself the following example Pocket cards AD3C Board cards AH 6S 5H There are 92 possible better hands and you have a top pair with a bad kicker so you may only want to call bets if the odds are correct for an improvement in your hand Any ace or any three will give you an improved hand but note that a 3H will actually LOWER your hand ranking since heart flushes are looming The effective pot size attempts to adjust for the quality ranking of improved hands but you should always be looking at the actual rankings of the outs to judge for yourself Fe were err ee wrens vie es PUES EEE Te rac fxc cf scf sc re ec sc
40. g round e g in a 10 handed game the next 3 positions after the early position You are late in the betting round all positions later than the middle position You are in the small blind position You are in the big blind position Within these the advice might be split depending on what has happened already If there s no difference in the advice regardless of what has happened already in the betting then the advice will be merged into one line Some other merging s may be witnessed for similar advice The complete possible split of advice is Early position If only folds or calls behind If one raise already If 2 raises already Middle position If first in If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers If one raise already If 2 raises already Late position If first in If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers If one raise already If 2 raises already Small blind If first in If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers If one raise already If 2 raises already Big blind If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers If one raise already If 2 raises already Assuming you haven t yet changed it the following examples should give the general idea of what to expect 9 Here is the default output for the pocket cards QD KD 45 2H H s 7s s 9s ss os ks as an a sn en z an on EI ES Lo Le f an 2c sc sc sc sc ze sc sc ev ac
41. it pre flop advice Firstly decide for which pocket hand s you wish to change the advice The file is arranged such that off suit combinations e g 7H 5S are first in a sort of ascending order followed by suited combinations e g 7H 5H followed by pairs If you wish to change the advice for e g King Jack off suit scroll down until you find the entries beginning K J offsuit Similarly if you wish to change the advice for e g King Jack suited scroll down until you find the entries beginning K J suited NOTE since there is no difference between King Jack off suit and Jack King off suit the advice is not duplicated for each of these combinations The advice is only provided once for the entry beginning with the higher card first For pairs e g a pair of twos scroll down until you find the entries similar to 2 pair Once you ve found the pocket hand you wish to change you will note that there are 22 separate pieces of advice available for each hand Taking Queen eight suited as an example here is the table from the section 3 4 Pre flop output reproduced with the corresponding entry in the properties file Early position If only folds or calls behind If one raise already If 2 raises already 8 suited early foldsorcallsonly suited early raisealready 8 suited early morethanoneraisealready 01010 CO J o E08 Middle position o suited middle firstin suited middle fewcallers
42. ke ac Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 542 x 839 0 05 0 10 eis EA EAESESKAESEREAEOESRESAKAAKS El el Early position If only folds or calls behind If any raise already Middle position Call If first in Raise If any callers so far If one raise already Raise Late position Raise If any callers so far se y If 2 raises already y If one raise alread Call If 2 raises already If first in heads up If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers If one raise already Call Consider Raise if might limit pot to 1 or 2 other players Call or raise sometimes if 5 players already in Call Consider Reraise if late player is first in and trying to steal the blinds If 2 raises already Fold Big blind If 1 3 callers so far If 4 callers Check or raise sometimes if 5 players already in If one raise already If 2 raises already Decrease fort size Increase font size 10 Back ol Here is the default output for the pocket cards 7D 2S Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 436 x 570 el ss 108 us SEE SEGRE Sei fae se ese sc rc fschee roc ec ne ac SS ml o o eo 0 Is hole coro 0 ls tt Early position ole Middle position Small blind Big blind If any callers so far If any raise already ol Decrease font size Increase font size Note how the ad
43. lly conduct audits upon advance written notice to verify compliance with the terms of this Agreement 35 Warranty and Disclaimer Limited Warranty Blitzwood warrants that for thirty 30 days from the date of original purchase the media e g diskettes on which the Software is contained will be free from defects in materials and workmanship Customer Remedies Blitzwood s and its suppliers entire liability and your exclusive remedy for any breach of the foregoing warranty shall be at Blitzwood s option either i return of the purchase price paid for the license if any or ii replacement of the defective media in which the Software is contained You must return the defective media to Blitzwood at your expense with a copy of your receipt This limited warranty is void if the defect has resulted from accident abuse or misapplication Any replacement media will be warranted for the remainder of the original warranty period Warranty Disclaimer Except for the limited warranty set forth herein THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BLITZWOOD DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION YOU ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELECTING THE SOFTWARE TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULTS AND FOR THE INSTALLA
44. ly for you by Blitzwood PokerDjinn As always in practice there are some caveats Firstly astute readers will have noticed that not all diamonds on the turn give you a guaranteed winning hand A 10D for instance will open up possibilities of another player having a full house a 4 of a kind or even a Straight Flush Blitzwood PokerDjinn will show the fact that 31 possible pocket hands would be better than yours were a 10D to appear Blitzwood PokerDjinn actually calculates an adjusted effective pot size to call which takes these situations into account Secondly we ve assumed above that you are last to act in the turn betting round IF you are not the last to act then be aware that players after you may raise You would then have to call two bets to stay in If the pot size is at least double the minimum required pot size then you re less worried but be very alert to the possibility Despite the above knowing your odds is an extremely valuable aid in assisting your poker decisions 2 Installation To install Blitzwood PokerDjinn simply put the installation CD into your CD drive The installation routine should start automatically but if it doesn t click on Start gt Run type in D setup exe and hit enter If D is not your CD drive replace D with the letter of you CD drive in the above If you have accepted all the defaults during installation i e you ve just clicked Next or Yes
45. n 46 times you may expect to see a diamond on 9 occasions on average Blitzwood PokerDjinn calculates these odds for you automatically so you need not worry about having to perform calculations in your head Now to the crucial part The money in the pot including the bets earlier in the round is almost certainly yours if a diamond appears so we need to see if the amount you will win is sufficient to make it worth taking the risk of calling 6 The calculation of the minimum pot size to make the call worth it is simply 6 x 37 9 24 67 Again Blitzwood PokerDjinn calculates this for you Let s see why by pretending we re in this situation on 46 separate occasions IF on these occasions the pot size is always less than 24 67 say 20 then we would expect to win this 20 on 9 of the 46 occasions giving us 180 Note that we are putting in an extra 6 but getting it straight back again On the other 37 occasions we would lose 6 making 222 losses in total Overall we d expect to lose 42 IF the pot size in these 46 games is 30 however our expected wins would bring in 9 x 30 270 Our losses will still be 222 but overall we d make a profit of 48 The rule is simple if your hand is currently poor but you have a chance of an excellent hand FOLD if the pot size is not sufficiently large to justify calling bets All of the information required to make this decision is provided automatical
46. nked hand even if the turn card is successful are too unlikely to have a bearing on the current odds See the section 3 6 2 card outs for more details There is then a dotted line This merely a visual indication of where your current pre turn ranking appears in the possible top 120 rankings achieved after the turn Basically the line shows that 4 possible outs will improve your ranking and the rest won t The remainder of the possible cards which keep your hand in the top 120 are shown As you can see they are merely the cards which leave you with a pair of kings and happen to keep your hand in the top 120 In this example these are not particularly interesting but are shown for information anyway 13 Finally we come to the odds section Typically talking of out cards tends to relate to straight or flush draws but this section always displays odds for any hand improvement for which the improved hand is in the top 120 By hand improvement I mean one of the following High card to Pair or above Pair to 2 pairs or above 2 pairs to 3 of a kind or above 3 of a kind to Straight or above Straight to Flush or above Flush to Full House or above Full House to 4 of a kind or above 4 of a kind to a Straight Flush not that this can happen in practice In our example there are 4 possible turn cards out of the remaining 47 cards which can improve your hand namely KC KH
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48. ogram output displays pound signs but you re playing in dollars IF there are terms used in the documentation which you do not understand please refer to the Glossary section Note in this documentation some paragraphs are displayed in blue text These paragraphs are incidental paragraphs which can be ignored on a first reading 1 2 Understanding odds Understanding how odds work is extremely important for successful poker Let s go straight into a real Texas Hold em example and imagine that you have been dealt pocket cards of AD 2D i e the Ace of diamonds and Two of diamonds Some money goes into the pot during the pre flop betting round and then the flop is dealt The flop cards are 10S 9D and 8D Nobody bothers betting including you and the turn card of 4C is dealt Now some bets are made and we assume that you are the last to act and have to call a 6 bet to stay in the game You may spot and Blitzwood PokerDjinn will certainly tell you that ANY diamond dealt next will give you an excellent flush however there aren t many diamonds left in the pack and you don t even have a pair at the moment So what should you do Firstly look at the chances of obtaining a diamond on the turn There are 46 cards you cannot see 9 of those are diamonds and 37 are not so your actual odds of a diamond on the turn are 37 to 9 against or equivalently 4 1 to 1 against In other words if you are in this situatio
49. or Finish where appropriate you should be able to find Blitzwood PokerDjinn by navigating to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn The appearance of the menu should look similar to ken BlitzwoodPokerDjinn d TA BlitzwoodPokerDjinn Ne Uninstall BlitzwoodPokerDjinn Edit other configuration Edit pre flop advice ars User Manual Blitzwood PokerDjinn launches the main application Uninstall Blitzwood PokerDjinn uninstalls the application Edit other configuration opens the file C Program Files BlitzwoodPokerDjinn BlitzwoodPokerDjinnConfig properties in Notepad so that you can change parts of PokerDjinn s configuration which are not otherwise available from the main program Edit pre flop advice opens the file C Program Files BlitzwoodPokerDjinn BlitzwoodPokerDjinnAdviceg properties in Notepad so that you can change the pre flop advice you are presented with during use of the application See Chapter 4 for more details on the last 2 items User manual opens this document Acrobat Reader 4 or higher is required 3 Blitzwood PokerDjinn in detail 3 1 The main sections of the program window Window title Betting buttons Status Panel Playing card buttons Dealt card display Font adjustment buttons Window Title this will display the Windows title of the application which includes the current window size in pi
50. ore this there are a very small proportion of hands in which this difference will manifest itself so there s no need to worry about it Also note that 2 card outs to most other types of hand can safely be completely ignored 23 4 How to change elements of the configuration Advanced In this release certain extra aspects of the configuration can be changed by editing some properties files You will not lose much by never editing these files We recommended that you only do so if you feel confident doing so After installation there should be two menu items under Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn entitled Edit pre flop advice which opens Notepad to edit the file BlitzwoodPokerDjinnAdvice properties and Edit other configuration which opens Notepad to edit the file BlitzwoodPokerDjinnConfig properties For reference these files can be found in your installation directory which will be C Program Files BlitzwoodPokerDjinn if you accepted the defaults whilst installing otherwise the files will be in the directory you specified when installing the application If you get very stuck you can use the Windows Search or Find utility which should be accessible via the Start button Note in the directory where these files exist there are also 2 files called BlitzwoodPokerDjinnAdvice BACKUP properties and BlitzwoodPokerDjinnConfig BACKUP properties These are copies of the original default properties files whi
51. putFont sans serif As an example if you deliberately want the output text to be a little larger than the default and the font to be Courier and you know that Courier is on your machine then change the lines to be mainOutputFontSize 10 mainOutputFont Courier Please note the warning about scrolling in the comments For very good hands sometimes a lot of output is displayed so increasing the font size may increase the likelihood of more scrolling being required Try pocket cards AD KC and flop AH KS AS for an example 4 8 Other configuration There are other configuration entries in BlitzwoodPokerDjinnConfig properties which you may wish to change They are not sufficiently important to take up space in the main documentation but they can be found with instructional comments in the properties file itself 28 5 Snippets of advice especially when using with Internet poker applications What follow are some comments which you may wish to bear in mind when using Blitzwood PokerDjinn especially if you re playing in real money games on the Internet Familiarise yourself as thoroughly as possible with the application and documentation before using in conjunction with Internet poker Good poker is NOT purely about odds The output from Blitzwood PokerDjinn and any other poker aid is merely one factor yp be considered when making decisions You should always be aware of other player s styles e g a raise from a play
52. r the last fifth board card to be dealt Sometimes known as fifth street Showdown the betting activities which occur after the river has been dealt Small blind the position at the table where you are required to put in a partial bet before playing the hand It is one position clockwise from the dealer Split pot the situation where all players left in the game after the river have equal hands in which case the pot is equally divided between them Top pair one of your pocket cards forms a pair with the highest card on the board Turn the fourth board card to be dealt Sometimes known as fourth street 33 8 Technical Support Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 is fully supported for 30 days from the time of purchase We are keen however to eliminate as many problems with Blitzwood PokerDjinn 1 0 as possible so please report any problems to pokerdjinn blitzwood co uk with as much information as possible and we ll endeavour to resolve your problem even if after the 30 day period We cannot guarantee replies after the 30 day period has expired We cannot provide support for purely Windows related problems Please consult your operating system help documentation 9 Feedback We are keen to receive any relevant feedback This includes e Any requests for enhancements Do you find it useful If not why Any disagreements about the output Any issues with this documentation Please contact us at pokerdjinn
53. river would give you a nut or near nut flush You d be correct but the chances are 11 47 x 10 46 or about 1 in 20 or 5 If you have to call a bet aiming specifically for the flush is only justifiable if there are around 20 bets already in the pot and you probably should have folded long ago anyway Also if you re having to call a bet and possible raises now you may also have to call another bet and possible raises on the turn and 78 of the time you ll probably be folding after the river is dealt anyway It is mathematically wrong to add the 5 to the 4 3 to give you a 9 3 chance of hand improvement the truer value is an extra 2 5 at absolute most Clearly if the whole flop round is checked you can just wait for the next card to see your flush potential has improved If a spade appears on the turn your immediate flush outs will appear and the appropriate odds displayed as usual Note that a K high flush is a much weaker hand than an A high flush The only example to possibly bear in mind for borderline decisions is the following situation You have an Ace After the flop is dealt there are two extra cards of the same suit as your Ace amongst the five and ideally one of them is your other pocket card You have a hand which is borderline or better to consider continuing with anyway In this case you can probably add 1 2 to your chances of improving your hand on top of those odds displayed Even if you ign
54. sible straights which might still beat you Example 8 If you hold a pair of Jacks JD JC say would you prefer the flop to be 77Q or 7QQ An intuitive answer might be that 77Q is better since your pair is better Let s try it A flop of 7D 7S QH leaves your hand looking miserable with a possible 232 better hands Two pairs J and 7 with Q Current hand quality Poor Odds of reasonable hand after next card 1 in 24 Possible pocket hands which are better so far 23271081 1 similarto 7C 7H 4ofakind 9 similar to OD QC Full House 84 similar to AD 7C 3 of akind 138 similarto AD OD 2 pairs One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 2147 JH giwes Fu J over 41035 JS gives F ouse J over 4 1035 Odds for BETTER top 120 hand 4 3 22 5 to 1 Pot size to call 0 50 factual 11 25 effective 11 32 Pot size to call 1 00 actual 22 50 effective 22 64 Pot size to call 1 50 actual 33 75 effective 33 97 Decrease font size Increase fort size Note that the betting structure was set to 0 50 1 00 for this example A flop of QH QD 7S is quite a lot better 19 Annnannmmmnmmmm sees r oe EE 2 2 o ole 2 2 ro Partial screenshot je offen foo re I kee Two pairs Q and J with 7 Current hand quality Borderline good Odds of reasonable hand after next card 8 in 10 Possible pocket hands which are better so far 10641081 1similarto QC QS 4o
55. size and look at the Window Title If it says for example Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 475 x 928 then change the properties to look like initialFrameWidth 475 initialFrameHeight 928 The next time you start the application the window will automatically set itself to that size 26 4 4 How to change the borderline limit from 120 You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration BORDERLINE LIMIT is used for 2 purposes and the following comments assume it is set to its default value of 120 1 During post flop situations all possible variations of the next card to be dealt are investigated For each of these the current value of your hand is compared against the current value of all possible hands which the other players could have The main output window only displays those cards which would place your hand in the top 120 of all possible hands 2 When looking at the next card the odds calculations look at those cards which would improve the quality of your hand e g change your hand from a pair to a flush etc See the main documentation for more details However the odds calculations will ignore those cards which improve your hand but will not place your hand inthe top 120 of all possible hands Increasing this value means that possible cards and odds for obtaining weaker hands will be considered If you are a player who only plays potenti
56. slightly worse Also note that since the quality of your out results are more borderline the effective pot size for one bet which has automatically doubled to 0 10 anyway has more than doubled Finally suppose that the river card QS is dealt ss fios 45 SESE ERE ater ae Def xc ac sc ec re ec ecfrac vf eine ac P gt e 20 00 20 r00 0 of 0 0 Two pairs K and Q with 10 Current hand quality Bad Possible pocket hands which are better so far 396 990 2 similarto AS 358 similar to 27 similarto AD 9 similar to JS Straight Flush AD AS Flush JD Straight 10D 10C 3 of akind Decrease font size Increase font size Yes your hand has improved from a pair to 2 pairs but there are 396 possible starting hands which are better virtually all of which result in a flush 15 Example 2 Now press BACK twice and wait and suppose that the turn card was KC i e Press KC Or if starting from scratch enter the flop cards KD QD followed by KS 10S 6S KC The main output window now shows lt Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 0 450 x 94573 2H 3H 4H SH eH 7H 7H 8H eH oH bel JH Ten QH KH an ESBBBSESEBBER Le fe1 s1 hof T te 1 feo oo pre we ee ro Ifrrewaum Three of a kind K with 0 10 Current hand quality Good Odds of reasonable hand after next card 8 in 10 Possible pocket hands which are better so far 61
57. the low and high bets e g lowBetDefault 0 50 will produce a button containing the text 0 50 1 00 and when pressed will make any subsequent odds calculations be based around either 0 50 flop and earlier or 1 00 turn river D lowBetDefault generates the leftmost button and this will be the default bet unless another button is pressed lowBetl and lowBet2 generate two other buttons which enable you to change bets without closing the program lowBetDefault 0 05 lowBet1 0 25 lowBet2 0 50 As an example if you regularly play 1 00 2 00 games and occasionally play 0 50 1 00 and 2 00 4 00 then set the three lines to lowBetDefault 1 00 lowBet1 0 50 lowBet2 2 00 4 3 How to change the initial program window size You will need to navigate to Start gt All Programs gt Blitzwood PokerDjinn gt Edit other configuration Here is the relevant section in the properties file including comments The following properties govern the initial program window size in pixels The window can be resized whilst running the program anyway but you can change these if you have a preferred initial size initialFrameWidth is the initial width of the program window and initialFrameHeight is the height initialFrameWidth 450 initialFrameHeight 900 You may have noticed that if you resize the main application window that the title changes to reflect the change The best approach is therefore to resize the window to your ideal
58. the pot size is or is expected to be 0 24 or more Example 5 A gut shot inside straight draw Pocket cards 5C 7H Flop 4C 8S AH Try this to see the output for yourself Your hand is currently also rubbish BUT any six will complete your straight Unfortunately as this is an inside straight draw i e the straight requires one card in the middle to complete the odds are much lower 10 8 to 1 against or 8 5 so the pot size needs to be much larger to justify calling a bet Example 6 A mixed drawing hand Pocket cards AD KD Flop JS 10D 3D Your hand is currently A high but there are 11 outs which give you a nut straight or nut flush JD still gives you a very strong hand and even any Ace or King gives you top pair but with other dangers lurking You have a 38 3 chance 1 6 to 1 of making one of these outs but notice that the effective pot size to call a bet is just over double the size of the bet rather than 1 6 times to reflect the fact that some of the outs are not perfect 18 Example 7 a surprise straight draw Pocket cards 9C 10D Flop 7D KS QH 6C At a quick glance it s possible to miss the fact that there are now two outs to a straight namely any J and any 8 The main output window makes it clear Also note that the appearance of a J does not give you a nut straight but leaves 12 better possible hands To find out why click on any Jack and discover that there are 12 higher pos
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60. vice has merged into one line for each position apart from the big blind 3 5 Post flop output At all stages after the flop has been dealt the main output window will display various snippets of information The best approach to understanding this information is to examine some examples in full detail and look at some other examples of interest Examplel Pocket cards KD QD Flop KS 10S 6S You have top pair with a reasonably good kicker but the three spades look slightly ominous The main output window looks like EES EES 30 50 e0 7 0 100 0 oo wo 0 Pair of K with 0 10 6 Current hand quality Good Odds of reasonable hand after next card 3 in 10 Possible pocket hands which are better so far 87 1081 46 similar to AS QS Flush 7 similarto 10D 10C 3 of akind 21 similarto 10D 6D pairs 14 similar to AD AC Pain One card outs to place hand in top 120 are 16 47 C gives Three of a kind K with 0 10 61 1035 H gives Three of a kind K with 10 61 1035 Two pairs K and Q with 10 1035 and Q with 10 83 1035 res Pair of K with 4D gives Pair of K with 3D gives Pair of K with 2D gives Pair of K with 5C gives Pair of K with 4C gives Pair of K with 3C gives Pair of K with 2C gives Pair of K with 5H gives Pair of K with 4H gives Pair of K with 3H gives Pair of K with 2H gives Pair of K with 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6
61. xels e g Blitzwood PokerDjinn v1 0 450 x 900 Status Panel this is used to warn of attempts to input duplicate cards it indicates when a betting button has been pressed and will show the current type of hand you have after the flop stages Main output window this contains guidance after your pocket cards have been dealt and hand rankings and odds etc after the flop Betting buttons for fixed limit games use these to specify the pre and post flop minimum bets The default at startup is 0 05 0 10 As an example pressing the 0 25 0 50 button will enable the calculation of required pot sizes for fixed limit games where the initial and flop betting rounds have a minimum bet of 0 25 and the river and turn betting rounds have a minimum bet of 0 50 Playing card buttons these are purely used to select which cards are dealt The Back button removes only the last card dealt and the CLR button removes all cards ready for a new game Dealt card display this will show the cards you have dealt Font adjustment buttons these can decrease increase the size of the text in the Main output window The overall program window can be resized in a similar manner to most Windows applications by clicking and dragging the outside borders If you wish to change the initial size of the program window when it starts see section 4 3 How to change the initial program window size 3 2 How to enter cards Simply click the r

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