1. A tournament spot appears
A 2 to 10 handed table, your position, your hand, the effective stacks, the pot and the amount to call. An opponent has just moved all-in. Everything you need to decide, nothing more.
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Poker training: call or fold facing an all-in
An opponent shoves, you decide. The engine tells you right away whether you were right, and how many big blinds your mistake cost. Free, no sign-up, as many hands as you want.
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Opens review.pokclock.com. The tool's interface is in French.
How it works
2. The engine corrects you instantly
Right or wrong, the recommended action, its EV, and if you missed it, the EV you just left on the table. No vague comment, a number.
3. You set the dial
Table size, street from preflop to river, and above all the level. On hard, the engine only serves spots where the decision is razor thin.
What the correction is based on
The question deserves a real answer, because a poker quiz is only worth as much as its engine.
The maths
Your hand's equity against the opponent's range is enumerated exactly whenever that is affordable, otherwise estimated with a guaranteed error margin under 1 equity point. Nothing is eyeballed.
The EV
Since the opponent is always all-in, your call ends the action. No future street to model, no game tree, no debatable parameter. The EV of the call comes down to equity × (pot + amount to call) − amount to call, plus the bounty if there is one, against zero if you fold.
The assumption
Nobody knows their hand. The engine assumes a shoving range of about 15%: pairs, A7s+, weak suited aces, ATo+, KTs+, KQo, QJs, JTs. The correction is therefore exact against that opponent. Against someone shoving 40% of hands, the right call is not the same.
Worth knowing: EV is counted in chips, not in ICM. On the bubble or at a final table, your decision can legitimately differ from the reference.
Why this spot and no other
The opponent's all-in is not a shortcut, it is the only case where the right answer can be computed exactly. Your call ends the action: no next street to guess, no opponent sizing to assume, no model to take on faith. It is also the decision that comes up most often late in a tournament, and the one that costs the most when you get it wrong.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the training really free?
- Yes. No account, no card, no limit on hands. It is the public part of review.pokclock.com.
- Do I need a PokClock account?
- Not to train. The account is for importing your Winamax hand histories and having your own hands analysed, which is a different tool.
- What situations do I train on?
- An opponent all-in, you calling or folding. Tables from 2 to 10 players, stacks from 3 to 20 big blinds, preflop to river, with or without a bounty.
- How does the engine know the right answer?
- It computes your hand's equity against the assumed shoving range, then the EV of the call. Because the call ends the action, that EV is exact, there is no future street to estimate.
- Is ICM taken into account?
- No, EV is counted in chips. Near the bubble or at a final table, folding tighter than the reference can be perfectly justified.
- Do the hands come from real games?
- No. Every situation is built on the fly from a seed. No history is replayed and no player data is read.
Your turn
A few minutes a day on the spots that are razor thin, and late tournament all-ins stop being a lottery.