Texas Calculatem™ Tutorial

1. Getting Started
2. How to Use Texas Calculatem™
3. Customizing your version of Texas Calculatem™

Getting Started

Downloading and Installing

1. Click the download button at http://www.calculatem.com or click here to download Texas Calculatem™ to start the Texas Calculatem™ download process.
2. A window will open asking you to run (or open) or save.
3. If you choose run or open, continue to step 6
4. If you choose save, next choose desktop to download the file to your desktop.
5. Once file has completed downloading, go to your desktop and double click on the file. You are now ready to continue to the Texas Calculatem™ poker tool installation process.
6. Follow the installation instructions.
7. Once Texas Calculatem™ has finished installing, you can automatically launch Texas Calculatem™ for the first time.

Running Program for the first time

1. In order to use Texas Calculatem™, you will need a license key. If you've already purchased Texas Calculatem™, you will have already received your software key by email.
2. When you run the program for the first time, the following window will open.

1. Click on "I already have a license key" if you've already signed up or purchased your license.
2. Copy the software key from the email you received from Texas Calculatem™ and paste it into the space provided.
3. If you don't yet have a license, you can purchase a software key here, or by clicking on "Buy Now" when you run the Texas Calculatem™ poker tool program.

How to use Texas Calculatem™

Setting up Texas Calculatem™ to Autoread as you Play

1. Log on to the Texas Holdem poker site where you are a registered user, open a poker room, and sit at a table as you normally would.
2. Be sure that you are at a Texas Holdem poker site supported by Texas Calculatem™. Click here for a list of supported Texas Holdem poker sites . Is your favorite poker site not on our list? Email us at support@calculatem.com". We are continually adding new Texas Holdem poker sites, and are committed responding to all customer queries.
3. Once you are seated at a poker table, click the Select Table button and move the cursor to your table.
4. You will now see that each seat is numbered with a box. Click on the appropriate box that indicates where you are sitting.
5. After Texas Calculatem™ attaches to your poker room, it will now start autoreading the Texas Holdem hands dealt within this poker room.
6. Texas Calculatem™ will show you the cards dealt, your Texas Holdem hand odds, as well as a betting spectrum that will recommend the preferred betting strategy based on the strength of your hand. In some cases, it may be necessary to move the poker room window and the dashboard window so they are not covering one another. Simply click and drag the windows using your mouse until they are in positioned the way you want them. The screenshot below shows an example where Texas Calculatem™ sits next to the Texas Holdem poker room window.

1. Important Note: if Texas Calculatem™ covers the Texas Holdem Poker room window, then Texas Calculatem™ cannot autoread the cards dealt within the poker room. If this happens, simply click and drag the windows until they do not cover one another. It is recommended that you use a 800x600 resolution or higher in order to fit both windows on the screen nicely.
2. The left side of the online poker tool dashboard shows your hole cards (the two cards dealt to you at the beginning of a hand), as well as the flop, turn, and river cards. Next to this is the number of players in the hand, and the number folder. Next to this is your current hand ranking (Pre-Flop) or your current hand (Post-Flop), along with your current chances of winning at the river. The right side of the dashboard has the current betting advice along with a graphical spectrum representing the advice.
3. Hand rank is a number, from 0 to 100, denoting the quality of a given Texas Holdem hand (100% being the best). Before the flop, Holdem hands are ranked according to statistical performance with the given number of opponents. Note that a poker hand that ranks highly against one opponent may do poorly, statistically, against 5 or 8 opponents. AA is always the best hand pre-flop, but 7 2 off-suit (not the same suit) is not always the worst hand (statistically speaking, 3 2 off-suit loses more often in a heads-up game). After the flop, hands are ranked strictly by their strength in combination with the cards on the table. For example, if your Texas Holdem hand rank is 50% after the flop, this means that half of all possible hands out there would beat you at that point.
4. When Texas Calculatem™ recommends betting advice, it takes into account Texas Holdem hand rank, the probability of improving your hand by drawing certain cards (known as outs), the number of opponents in the hand, what hands these opponents might have and your position at the table.
5. Don't forget: the betting advice does not take into account the chances that one or more of your opponents are bluffing. The betting advice, as well, cannot determine times in the Texas Holdem game when you want to be aggressive or cautious based on your "read" of other players. In addition to odds and statistics, Texas Holdem is also a game of reading other players. While Texas Calculatem™ will help most players to master the odds of this popular game, only time and practice will teach you how to read other players and vary your betting based on this knowledge.

Customizing your version of Texas Calculatem™

You're now ready to go out there and play some games with the Texas Calculatem™ advantage. We encourage you to try it out a bit with its default settings to get a feel for it. Once you feel comfortable with the basic setup, you'll be ready to customize your Calculatem. If, however, something doesn't seem to be working correctly, please visit our support page for assistance in getting Calculatem running smoothly.

Switching Texas Calculatem™ to "full mode" and using game options

Each time you attach Texas Calculatem™ to a Texas Holdem poker room, it automatically opens up the dashboard window in a minimized mode (mini-mode) in order to fit better on your computer screen. In order to view a dashboard screen that has more poker odds information, as well as to access the Texas Calculatem™ options menu, you can click on the "full mode" button.
In "full mode" you can see more Texas Holdem hand information and access the Texas Calculatem™ options menu.
Simply click on the "mini mode" button to return dashboard to its minimized size.

The Full Mode Screen

Full mode shows a larger representation of the poker table, your position, as well as the positions of your opponents that are still in the hand, or folded.
On the top right is a "Hand at the River" table. This table tells you what Texas Holdem hands are and are not possible for you and your opponents. For hands that are possible, a % chance of hitting them (by the river) is given. The percentages will be colored red if highly likely. You can use this data to see, at a glance, if there are any straight draws, flush draws, etc, and the likelihood of hitting them.

Attach to Texas Holdem Game

Use the Attach to Game button to detach or reattach to a poker window.

Mini Mode

Use the Mini Mode button to switch the dashboard back to mini mode.

Options

Select this button to change game options. The following game options can be adjusted from this window:

Playing Style (Pre and Post Flop Advice): Texas Calculatem™ will give different advice based on your preferred playing style. Do you want to be an aggressive Texas Holdem player or a cautious player? Are there certain hand rank preferences you have based on your existing experience? To change the advice you receive from Texas Calculatem™ based on your personal playing style, choose this option on the dashboard.

Set your preferences for play before and after the flop using the Tight, Average, and Loose options, with Loose being more aggressive and Tight being more cautious.

You may also force Texas Calculatem™ to never advise you to play Texas Holdem hands in certain positions, unless they are in a certain top percentage. For example, if you never want to call in the small blind unless your hand is in the top 5% of all starting hands, simply check "Also force these minimum starting hands" under the "Playing Style" menu. Next, move the "Small Blind" slider to "95", and the rest of the sliders to zero (disabling them).

Calculation Speed: Depending on your CPU speed, choose the appropriate option. It is recommended that you start at Accurate. If Texas Calculatem™ is too slow in giving advice, try the normal option, and finally the fast option.

Full mode always on top: Select this if you want the full mode screen to always remain on top of other windows.

Mini mode always on top: Select this if you want the mini mode screen to always remain on top of other windows.

Never show deck window: Select this option to hide the deck window. The deck window shows the known cards that have been dealt from the deck, as well as highlighting your outs (cards you need to improve your hand).

Show Cards After Fold: Checking this option will cause Texas Calculatem™ to pretend you are still in the hand after you fold. Your hand will remain shown in the data bar, and advice, odds, etc will all act as if you had not folded.

Four Color Deck: This options shows each suit as a different color, to match the four-color option in most Texas Holdem online poker rooms.

Dealer is Big Blind when heads up: Texas Calculatem™ normally assumes that the player on the button is the small blind, when playing heads-up. A few Texas Holdem poker rooms do not use this rule in certain games, however. If the game you're playing is like this, check this option.

Odds Display: You can choose to have Texas Calculatem™ display your Texas Holdem odds a percentage, ratio, or straight chances.

Now you're ready to start playing Texas Holdem with an edge because you know the odds. Good Luck!

If you have any questions, please make sure to visit our Support page here

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