A trainer for the game in front of you
A trainer for live low-stakes poker, where you get a messy pot, an uncounted stack and no time to work either of them out.
Most poker study material is built for online play, where you get a solver, a hand history and as long as you like. At a live table you get none of those. You get a pot nobody has counted, a straddle, a player you have been reading all night, and a table waiting on you.
PokerThangs is a site and a four-tab trainer. The trainer walks a real hand through eleven framework cards, one concept at a time, against the exact spot on the felt. Then eleven drills put the same skills on a timer.
Open PokerThangs.comThe Trainer
Four tabs: the hand walkthrough, the drills, your progress and a reference. All of it opens without an account.
What It Does
The hand walkthrough
- Real spots, one at a time, with the action history tagged: who raised, who is the aggressor, what the sizing was
- Eleven framework cards per hand, from ranges and pot odds through to bet sizing and tempo
- Three views of the same spot: Stacks, Odds and Reads
- Nine-seat table scenes that set the spot up before you're asked to price it
The drills
- Chip counting, on a stack drawn at real denominations rather than photographed
- Messy pot odds, live reads and baselines, and table and target selection
- Six math drills: combos and blockers, equity at a glance, break-even, implied odds, EV arithmetic and pressure math
- Range reading on the 13 by 13 grid: width, combos, notation and spot the flaw
- Accuracy and answer speed for each drill, kept on your own device
Math Drills Draw New Numbers Every Time
A drill holding thirty written questions is a drill you finish. After that you're recalling answers rather than doing the arithmetic, and the number on the screen stops meaning anything.
Nine of the eleven drills build each question in code at the moment you ask for it: the stack sizes, the board, the pot, the bet facing you. The answer key comes out of the same numbers that drew the picture, so the picture and the answer can't drift apart.
The table for this question: the blinds, who opened, who called, and what each one put in.
The pot is added up on screen, seat by seat, to $37. The question asks about that pot and a $30 bet.
The answer key works from the same numbers: $30 ÷ ($30 + $37) ≈ 45%.
The Site Around the Trainer
Written guides for the parts that are reading rather than drilling, and the whole thing on a phone.
Tell Us What Your Business Does by Hand
A trainer, a referral app and a prep tool share one thing: somebody was doing the job from memory and a notebook.
Based in St. Clair Shores, working across Metro Detroit.
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