Wilson Software

www.wilsonsoftware.com

Wilson Software has arguably the most popular poker software on Windows platform at present: Turbo Texas Hold'Em, Turbo 7-Card Stud, Turbo Stud 8/ or better, Turbo Omaha Hi-Low, Turbo Omaha High, and Tournament Texas Hold'Em with choices for limit, pot limit and no limit including the 2002 WSOP big event. Available for Windows 95 through XP, games have well-developed artificial intelligence, various levels of opponent expertise, loads of statistical reports, and a detailed starting hand analyzer. Wilson Software comes highly endorsed by the likes of Positively Fifth Street author James McManus, The Mad Genius of Poker author Mike Caro, and Card Player Magazine's Lou Krieger and Maryann Guberman. Free demos are available for download.

Bob Wilson, MENSA member since 1966 who has played poker and worked with computers for over 30 years, founded Wilson Software in 1989.
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Acespade Software

www.acespade.com

Acespade Software, another widely popular poker software provider, offers Texas Hold'em, 7-Card Stud, Omaha, and Crazy Pineapple for Windows 95 through XP. Known for flexibility in artificial intelligence and advice, games utilize mathematical modeling and statistical analysis in real time and a vast array of poker play situations and possibilities. Acespade come favorably endorsed by Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players (Advanced Player) authors David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth.

Acespade Software, established in 1999, says that it has a customer satisfactory rate is over 99%.
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Texas Hold'Em Assistant

www.iodo.us

The very popular Texas Hold'em Assistant is Web-based freeware (no ads!), which means one of its strongest points is that you can play on absolutely any operating system, anytime, at home or at work, without having to download a single thing. It makes use of a program that calculates the probabilities of all the hands that can be produced from a combination of 2 hole cards and a flop (and optionally, turn and river cards).

Texas Hold'em Assistant has been enjoying positive reviews on-site and is named #1 poker software by the Poker Top 10.
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IRC Poker Software by John Coker Software

www.jcsw.com

John Coker Software's well-received and completely free poker software comes on both graphical and text-based interface for playing on the popular text-based chat program, IRC. Holdem (text-based interface) is a curses-based front-end providing a visual front-end interface for playing Texas and Omaha Hold'em poker on IRC using a dealer bot. Xpoker (graphic interface) is an X11-based front-end providing a visual front-end interface for playing most of the poker games on IRC using a dealer bot. Both programs maintain the IRC client side interface in which users write to each other by typing lines of input as well as specify game actions with messages to the dealer bot, often using special aliases.

John Coker, who calls poker "a game with endless depth," started with home poker then moved on to public card rooms including Las Vegas' MGM Grand, The Mirage, Harrah's, and Benny Binion's Horseshoe.
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Frugal Video Poker by Wolf Gaming Software

www.frugalgambler.biz

Frugal Video Poker is downloadable poker software that works like a hand analyzer and poker chart tracking your progress on the program itself. Designed for both the novice and experienced poker player, it begins with an instructional video then teaches you to play video poker and charts your wins and losses. Sound effects, music, and great graphics add to the fun experience.

Frugal Video Poker is well endorsed by Jean Scott, poker player for 20 years, dubbed "The Queen of Comps" by Dan Rather of 48 Hours and best known for her smart poker strategies and maximizing complimentaries (freebies handed out by casinos), as well as Video Poker Player's Skip Hughes, who has been producing some of the most popular cards used by video poker players since 1997.
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Smoke'em Poker by Dave O'Brien

people.qualcomm.com

Smoke'em Poker is Dave O'Brien's own BeerWare, which means that it's funny and free and quite addictive according to its very satisfied users. Available on both Amiga and Windows platforms, it simulates a weekend game of five-card draw poker, with a simple interface that includes a variety of options, statistics including a graph of winnings, and auto-play mode. The latest version features Internet play with up to 5 real opponents (the computer fills in the rest) and a set of sounds for each player to record his own and send to friends.

Dave O'Brien works at San Diego based Qualcomm, which makes Eudora e-mail software, where he says his "particular role is to make (internal) software easy to use."
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iPoker by Scenario Software

iPoker by Scenario Software

iPoker by Todd Ouzts of Scenario Software offers 100 games of poker, including all the popular stud and draw poker games, for Mac OS, ideally OS X Jaguar and Panther. Featuring up to 11 QuickTime "shills" with adjustable AI, it lets you make your own game rules create your own variations and iPoker will actually "learn" to play them. You can create characters against which to play then adjust their strengths and weaknesses, and chart your playing strategies to help improve your game.

This impressive poker simulation's scores of features also include synthesized dealer's speech to call the fast action; casual, table stakes, or freeze-out tournaments; choice of high, low, or high-low split pot games; and a colorful Standings chart on which to track winnings. You can also play 7-Card Stud for free in iPoker's demo mode.
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DD Tournament Poker by Donohoe Digital

DD Tournament Poker by Donohoe Digital

DD Tournament Poker is a No Limit Texas Hold'em software that lets you compete in tournaments with up to 5,000 challenging computer opponents on three skill levels. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, DD Tournament Poker lets you choose between Tournament and Poker Night. Practice using pre-defined tournaments such as Card Room, Satellite, Super Satellite, and the 2004 World Championship, or customize your own tournament. In-game help also offers tips on hosting your own poker tournament, poker etiquette, and more. Free demo downloads are available for all 3 platforms.

Established in 2003, Donohoe Digital was formed by Doug Donohoe who has been developing software professionally for over 14 years and was Chief Architect of Netscape Communication's e-commerce software division.
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UK Tournament Poker

UK Tournament Poker

Specifically designed for those who prefer to play by UK tournament rules, UK Tournament Poker is the only poker software that offers 7-Card Stud, Texas Hold'em, and Omaha in full poker tournament mode. Available in Windows 95 through 2000 (they are still working on XP), games let you play against 11 different types of computer opponents, analyze your hand after play, change your tournament settings, configure freeze-out and single table satellite structures, and enjoy the free Equity Calculator which can be downloaded on-site as a stand-alone executable.

Professional software developer Andy Ward, who created UK Tournament Poker, names Hold'em as his game of choice and placed second in the Victoria casino's £200 No-Limit Hold-Em 2004 competition.
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Poker Wiz

Poker Wiz

Poker Wiz is a study program on Windows platform that allows you to determine the probabilities and odds in any poker situation that you think might be instructive to your poker play. Set it up, run off a hundred thousand hands in a few seconds or a million hands in a few minutes, and find out who hits what, when, how often, and what odds you need to keep trying for, say, your flush. This complete poker simulation wizard helps you find out everything you need to know about card behavior and probability in a variety of games and in a number of situations.

PokerWiz comes well endorsed by Card Player Magazine CEO Denny Axel, who says, "A poker nerd could get in there and never come out," as well as the International Gaming & Wagering Business Magazine and Peter Ruchman of Gambler's Book Club, Las Vegas.
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