Online Poker Tools
Worth the effort? 
It is true that for some players poker tools have almost no value at all – this player type is mainly purely recreational players for whom it doesn’t matter much if they win or loose. They are mainly playing to have fun. If you are this type of player and don’t want to change just stop reading now… For all the rest of us – all those who want to win money by playing poker – poker tools can be extremely valuable.
Poker Tools come in different types and can roughly be catagorised as: Online databases, Trackers, Poker Bots, Calculators, HUD’s and Other. If you are unfamiliar with these tool types check out our quick intro to poker tool types on the category page.
If you want to improve your game, selecting the best poker tool possible is one of the most important ways to help you achieve improvements.
As always we will only endorse the very best online poker tools availiable and we are currently in the process of upgrading the list of recommended tools...
Recommended Online Poker Tools
Tournament Watch - A Cool Poker Guide special
Most poker sites have many tournaments to choose from but every once in a while some REALLY attractive tournaments come along. This happens when a site guarantees a certain prize amount or they add money or prizes to the tournament for promotional purposes.
These good tournaments are easy too miss but with our Tournament Watch feature you wont miss out any more.
In the Tournament Watch-section we list any and all the really attractive tournaments from our recommended sites and you can see excactly why they are attractive. Go to Tournament Watch-section.
Poker software tools
Statistical tools
PokerTracking
Use PokerTracking.com to track your session data from any poker game. Good customizable graphs and informative charts help you to track and analyse your poker game. Use their location balance tracking to track your entire bankroll, add bonuses, withdraws and deposits, know where your money is! PokerTracking.com is free to use.
PokerTracker
NEWS: Version 3 has been released. We will have a full review soon...
Poker Tracker allows you to analyze your online poker room play in great detail. Poker Tracker stores and summarizes hand history data that can be downloaded from your poker room. All Texas Holdem stakes levels including No-Limit and Pot-Limit. There is no extra charge for higher limit games. Supports Empire Poker, Party Poker, Paradise Poker, Poker Stars and Ultimate Bet (ring games only at U.B.). Price around $90 for new Version 3 license - less if you are buying an upgrade. Good value for money. Free trial version availiable.
Tournament management
The Tournament Director
The Tournament Director is the premier poker tournament management software package. You will not find a more professional, feature rich, easy to use tool for running your tournaments. With the Tournament Director, you cansit back and focus on playing in your tournaments instead of running them - the Tournament Director runs them for you.
30 day free trial version. Private licence is only $24.95. Great value.
DD Poker
DD Poker offers a poker software where you can both practice your tournament skills and experience what the pro's do as well as manage your local poker night no-limit hold'em tournaments! DD Poker is one of the easier poker tools to use, has nice graphics and features an advanced learning AI. All in all a nice poker tool / piece of poker software.