Mooraculator

Robert Moore was not always the poker enthusiast he is today. In fact, he didn´t become interested in the game until last year, when ESPN began televising the World Series of Poker, a no-limit Texas Hold ´Em tournament with a first prize that was then $2.5 million. After that, he began to play in regular games, and when he found himself without any pressing obligations over this past summer, he decided to try to write a program that would help him and others understand their odds as they played.

As it stands now, the program has two parts.

• The first calculates raw odds — the probability that your cards will beat any single opponent´s cards should you both stick around to the end of the game. This information is the result of pure mathematical computation. After each card is revealed, the computer performs hundreds of thousands of calculations to figure these odds.
• The second part of the program incorporates information about your position at the table, past betting patterns and the number of callers at any given point to make a subjective recommendation based on algorithms Moore developed.

After a month of programming, the Mooraculator was complete. In August 2004, Moore began to sell the program on his website robertjmoore.com. The Mooraculator can be used alongside the most popular online gaming sites as a real-time tool for improving your poker skills.