Calculatem Pro™ Tutorial

1. Getting Started
2. How to use Calculatem Pro™
3. Customizing your version of Calculatem Pro™

Getting Started

Downloading and Installing

1. Click the Get Calculatem Pro™ button or download link at http://www.calculatempro.com/download.html to start the Calculatem Pro™ poker tool 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 the file has completed downloading, go to your desktop and double click on the file. You are now ready to continue to the Calculatem Pro™ poker tool installation process.
6. Follow the installation instructions.
7. Once Calculatem Pro™ has finished installing; you can launch Calculatem Pro™ for the first time.

Running Program for the first time

1. In order to use Calculatem Pro™, you will need a license key. If you've already purchased your Calculatem Pro™ license or signed up with one of our casino partners to obtain a free license of Calculatem Pro™, you will have already received your registration key and registration name by email. If you do not have a free Calculatem Pro™ license, please visit our free page here.
2. When you run the program for the first time, the pop-up window below will open.

1. Click on "Click here" after "Already have a license Key" at the bottom of the Calculatem Pro™ interface.
2. Copy the registration key and registration name from the email you received from Calculatem Pro™ and paste it into the space provided.

To purchase a license, please follow this link. To obtain a free license, please follow this link. Please note a free license is locked to the poker room you signed up with for the first 1000 real money hands(tournaments excluded). A purchased license is immediately usable in all supported poker rooms.

How to use Calculatem Pro™

Setting up Calculatem Pro™ to Autoread as you Play

1. Launch Calculatem Pro™ and select the poker room you would like to play at. You must close the poker room, re-launch the calculator and select the poker room through the calculator interface. If you already have the poker room you would like to use Calculatem Pro™ on open, you must close it and launch the poker room through the Calculatem Pro™ interface.
2. If your license is locked you can only play at the poker room you signed up with initially. Once you have played 1000 real money hands there using the calculator ( tournaments excluded) then the software will be unlocked and you can use it in all supported rooms.

1. Be sure that you are at a Texas Holdem poker site supported by Calculatem Pro™. Click here for a list of supported Texas Holdem poker sites. Is your favorite poker site not on our list? Email us at support@calculatempro.com. We are continually adding new Texas Holdem poker sites, and are committed responding to all customer queries.
2. Once you are seated at a poker table, drag the Calculatem Pro™ poker tool attach box over the poker room table and click the attach button. Once you drag the attach box over the poker table you are sitting at, the Attach to Game button will turn red. Click on the "Attach" button.

1. After Calculatem Pro™ attaches to your poker room; it will now start autoreading the Texas Holdem hands dealt at this table.
2. At this point you may choose between Full mode and Mini Mode (if your screen resolution is set to less than 1024x768, mini mode will automatically appear. It is recommended that you use 1024x768 for optimal display. Full mode can be placed to the right or left of the game window, while mini mode can be placed above or below. Be sure that Calculatem Pro™ does not overlap the game window.
3. Calculatem Pro™ 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 Calculatem Pro™ sits next to the Texas Holdem poker room window.

FullMode :

Mini Mode :

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Customizing your version of Calculatem Pro™

You're now ready to go out there and play some games with the Calculatem Pro™ 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 Pro. If, however, something doesn't seem to be working correctly, please visit our support page for assistance in getting Calculatem Pro running smoothly.

Using the Dashboard that appears above the poker window (mini mode)

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.

Hand Rank

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.

When Calculatem Pro™ 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.

Pot Odds

Calculatem Pro takes Pot Odds into consideration. What this means is, if the advice would normally be to fold, but the amount of money you could win has a high enough ratio to make it worthwhile to call, it will tell you "Pot odds say call". Be sure and keep in mind your stack size if you get this advice in a tournament. Conversely, if you have good odds, but it costs too much to call and the payoff is not great, you may get a "Pot odds say fold."

What the online poker tool dashboard does not show

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 Calculatem Pro™ will help most players 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.

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

At any time, you may switch between "Mini" and "Full" mode by clicking the appropriate buttons along the bottom of the app.

In "full mode" you can see more Texas Holdem hand information and access the Calculatem Pro™ 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 cards, odds, pot odds, and advice. In addition, it has a multi-screen display that can be switched between 4 different views:

The deck. This shows you what cards are left in the deck. Colored dots appear on any cards that will improve your hand (without improving others). In manual mode, these cards may be clicked or dragged into the various card positions above.

The table. This view is a small representation of the table, showing each player and their status. In manual mode, you can right click any player and change their status (to tell Calculatem Pro if and when they folded, for example). Also, in manual mode, you may Click "Layout" to change the layout of the table, and New Hand to clear all cards and advance the dealer button.

Odds on the next card. This is a chart giving you your odds of hitting certain hands on the next card, as well as your odds of having the best hand on the next card. In addition, your best opponent's odds on the next card are shown.

Odds on the River. This is a similar chart, but it shows odds on the hand if it were to play to the River.

Other buttons:

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)

Calculatem Pro™ 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 Calculatem Pro™ 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 Calculatem Pro™ 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 Calculatem Pro™ 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.

Show Cards After Fold

Checking this option will cause Calculatem Pro™ 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

Calculatem Pro™ 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 Calculatem Pro™ 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!

Note: This program is a poker odds calculator. It is meant to give you the odds on the current situation. However, as any seasoned poker player will tell you, there is more to the game. A good example is bluffing. Although Calculatem Pro™ is not going to tell you WHEN to bluff; it can very much help you determine if someone else is bluffing.

Also, mixing up your game is important. If you always play straight, people will figure that out, and simply fold whenever you raise. In other words, don't always do what Calculatem Pro™ says to do. This is the reason for the advice slider bar. If Calculatem Pro™ tells you to fold, but you can see your hand is very close to being a playable hand on the slider bar, you may want to consider playing every once in a while.

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

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