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06 12th, 2008| 
In playing online poker, players are bereft of crucial information that is otherwise available in conventional, brick-and-mortar play: information about the psychology of other players. In online play, players are left in the dark about how opponents behave, in general, and how they react to specific events, in particular. Fortunately, this dearth of information is more than made-up for by tools like the online poker calculator, which provide vital information to the player in real-time. With a host of poker calculator in the market, how do we choose the right one?
As with most types of software products, customer support is critical. It is very important for a piece of software to work when it should work; so, if problems arise, it’s crucial to have access to someone who knows the ins and outs of the product reasonably well. Also, online vendors of poker calculators should provide users with feedback channels for the continuous improvement of the product.
Another criterion in choosing online calculators is usability; the success of most popular software is due in most part to their “user-friendliness”. Also, the usefulness of a poker calculator may also be measured by the relevance and timeliness of the information it provides. How well and timely a product provides poker odds and opponent statistics, for example, is an appropriate measure of how good the product is.