The poker glossary at gamerisms, part 5 presents 12 poker game software reviews for passionate players worldwide. This article is also one of the 10 video game genres.
Poker game software is an indispensable tool for a new or veteran player. It provides the best simulation of the game to train for the elusive game of poker, run reports, show statistics, display information about one’s game by reading hand histories of one’s opponents.
We looked at several types of software available for this poker game software reviews genre article and found them to be varying in types of games, settings and style—always a good thing.

This genre article lists individual poker games and tournament software in that order.
To give you a more in-depth look of software available in the market and their good/bad features, 12 poker game software reviews follow.
We have noted some of the low points or bad reviews received by some of the software, however, your mileage may vary. We do not believe that these thumbs down opinions should exclude the software from this review list.
Having said that, I believe there is total agreement with the premium software from Wilson, so let's begin with their products.

1) Texas Holdem and Wilson software, Turbo Texas Holdem are made for each other. Features include the ability to create your own personal player and opposing player profiles. Therefore, the user can modify the playing styles of each player to create the type of game you want to play. You can also set the player line-up for a hand, thereby determining a loose, tight, or average style game.
Turbo Texas Hold’em can be played with two – ten players in each game. You control the game by determining the blinds, bet amounts and difficulty of the game. Each update for this poker games software presents features like technology that closely simulates a real poker game, simulated players who play like humans vs. computers, advice during each hand and custom graphics.
To add to your overall poker experience, Wilson keeps moving forward with poker game software that uses artificial intelligence, extended modes of play to choose from, programming to help you study your opponents, and 60 different player faces.
The realty of poker play is likely the single factor that places this resource high on the poker game software reviews list.
 
2) Omaha is another popular game played by passionate poker players and Wilson steps up again with Turbo Omaha Hi-Low. Again, the features permit creating player and opponent profiles, determining tight or loose play and can be a 2-10 player table.
Further, you determine the blinds and bet amounts and a point counter on the screen can be viewed for assistance. Also, hand analyzers and poker tips help to make the simulation players appear lifelike. Once again, Wilson 'scoops' the pot for reality poker play.

3) Stud poker is well represented here as noted by poker game software review of Wilson's Turbo 7 Card Stud. One of the outstanding features is creating profiles for both your opponents and you, as the player by skill level. Designed for 2-8 players, you can set the play for each hand by determining skill level and bet amounts. The hand analyzers allow more accurate playing of the simulated players, which is the true 'bring in' feature of this software.
In conclusion, Wilson poker software claims to produce the most realistic simulation of poker nowadays. But, users and reviewers say that their interface can be difficult to set-up.

4) Holdem Inspector 2 Poker game software
This poker software offers the innovative feature of allowing one to analyze his/her game and study a certain situation, thus the name. It also enables players to put up various profiles to test different techniques for many poker situations. It is sure to spike your holdem play.

5) Seven Card Inspector 2
This software is labeled as the little brother of the Holdem Inspector 2 poker game software. Though it has the ability to track up cards and outs, the available profiles are not that commendable. Also, it does not allow you to run complex simulations.  This software has bad reviews on its belt.

6) Poker Stove
This Texas Holdem poker calculator boasts it can fully analyze complex preflop situations about 100 times faster than other available tools.

7) Poker Office
This resource is said to be one of the most well-developed software since their original version. Its features are the ability to automatically track stats, import old hand histories, and offering advice on how to improve the game. gamerisms' Poker Game Software reviews has Poker Office worth the money spent.

8) Crazy Pineapple Poker Game Software
This poker game software claims to have an easy installation feature and a smart computer advisor. It has an internet play and watch play for the purpose of easy learning.

9) Mobile Poker Trainer
This poker game software is a good download for the cell phone. This is the mobile version of the Texas Holdem software. The software is good to kick boredom away while using your mobile phone. The downside of this program is that play is limited to five characters that have predictable playing strategies. Thus, reviews are mixed and it may be more qualified as a video game.
With this cue, gamerisms has included this poker game software reviews article in the list of Video Games genres.

Among all types of poker played, tournament poker is the undisputed leader.
Below are 3 poker game software reviews for this genre.

10) DD Tournament Poker
This poker game software is designated as perfect for beginners and experienced players alike. 5000 computer opponents are available in this program and one can choose from three skill levels.
Poker aficionados have the choice of playing a pre-defined tournament or customizing one that will meet their specifications.
A software review of DD offer some additional features:

• Analyze your play via detailed hand history and statistics analysis.
• Tournament summary: Total profit, Hands played, Hands won and     Flop/Turn/River seen.
• Detailed statistics per hand: Win/Lose, Flops/Turn/River seen, Big Blinds win/lose per hand, How often you check/bet/raise/ and check raise/re-raise/fold. 
  
• Detailed statistics by pre-flop / flop / turn / river/ Win/Lose/Type of action.
• Showdown Calculator - Run all combinations or simulate a specific number of trials. 
  
• Hand Ladder - show you how many hands are better, equal or worse than your current hand.
• Hand Strength - see how likely your hand is to win against 1-9 opponents.
• Hand Group Simulations - run sampled and exhaustive simulations of your hand against customizable groups of hands like big pairs, big slick or suited connectors.
  

11) Poker Tournament Manager
This poker game software provides all of the tools you need to host a tournament. Poker Tournament Manager has unlimited levels allowing you to determine breaks, calculates pay offs and chip additions. It also has a feature that allows you to track player statistics over multiple tournaments. Setting up the tournaments can be tedious but this software is equipped with a tournament assistant to help you determine the details and create custom play.
There are numerous colors, graphics plus audio/video add-ons for you to choose.
Players prefer this software because it is easy to use.  
This poker game software provides these tools that easily manage your tournament:

• Poker clock with unlimited levels and breaks.
• Support for buy ins, re-buys, chip add-ons, and point systems.
  
• Automatically calculates fixed or percentage based payouts.  You can even randomly assign seats and balance tables as players go out. 
  
• Track Player Stats and Post Results.
• View stats and points to see top players over multiple tournaments.  Results and stats can be shared with other players by auto-posting results. 
  
• Customizable tournament structure, audio and visual notifications plus color and screen options.      
  

12) The Tournament Director
Poker game software review of this software notes that it offers a variety of game modes, game changes between rounds, and a variety of limits. The Tournament Director automatically calculates all of the numbers such as pot amounts, chip counts and buy in rates. This software also calculates player statistics over a number of games played. Keep track of your poker league on line for free. Tournament Director automatically seats players and suggests places to play in order to keep the tables balanced.
Poker players prefer this software because it is easy to operate, can simulate real life poker situation, and offers several customization options.
Our poker game software review of The Tournament Director notes these additional features:

• Runs limit, pot-limit, and no-limit games, and game changes during a tournament (first round is Texas Holdem, second round is 7 Card Stud, etc)
• Handles guaranteed pot, house contributions, formulas for awarding points, multiple rakes and player bounties.
• Calculates statistics over multiple tournaments along with schedule and prize suggestion tools plus chip calculator. Also customizable hotkeys.
• Make changes 'on the fly' while your tournament is running.
• Export rounds, players, prizes, to various formats. Export the tournament results to HTML to share with your players.
• Save your rounds structure, prizes, layouts, chips, independently as templates for future tournaments.
  

gamerisms welcomes your comments/suggestions about poker game software that you have used and/or can suggest.

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