Live $1/2 Training · Zero Solver Homework

Train the game that's actually in front of you.

Reads, stacks, seat selection, and honest arithmetic for the messy pots real games produce. Watch a real one play out below — then try one yourself.

short stack all-in · dead money villain covers you · eff $428

Free Tier, No Card Built for Live $1/2–$1/3 Feels Like a Game, Not a Chart

Generated Questions
0Frameworks per Hand
0Automated Math Checks
$1/2Native Math, Messy Pots
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Don't take our word for it.
Take three questions.

Fresh every day, straight from the drills. Get one right and you'll feel it — get one wrong and you'll know exactly what it's been costing you.

Your Streak 0

Beat all three? The app deals these forever, timed, with your accuracy tracked. Open the Trainer →

The Differentiators

Three Drills No Solver App Can Teach.

Photo-real table scenes, not diagrams. You look, you read, you decide — under the clock, like in a live game.

The Regulars

Meet the table you'll be beating.

Every trainer hand casts opponents from real live-game archetypes — with profiles, tendencies, and the exact adjustment that empties their stack. These six live in the app. You've met them all.

LLLimp-Call Larry, a relaxed heavyset regular with his arms crossed behind a soda and loose red chips Limp-Call Larry The Station calls any flophates folding How you beat him: value-bet thinner than feels polite. Never bluff the river. He'll pay off three streets with second pair.
SSStraddle Steve, grinning as he tosses red chips forward for a blind straddle Straddle Steve The Action Man blind straddles3-bets dark How you beat him: stop 4-betting him off his fun. Flat your monsters, let him hang himself, snap his jams way wider than the chart says.
NNNitty Nathan, sitting upright behind two immaculate barrels of red chips Nitty Nathan The Rock 9 hands a nightwhite-knuckles AA How you beat him: steal his blinds forever, and when he finally raises, believe him. Folding top pair to Nathan is a profit center.
DDDowntown Dana, studying an opponent behind neatly squared stacks Downtown Dana The Studied Reg knows the chartsforgets the room How you beat her: she plays the textbook, so play the exceptions. Her folds are too honest — lean on her capped ranges and she'll let you.
VVVacation Vinny, mid-laugh with a tiki cocktail raised Vacation Vinny The Tourist here till Sundaydrinks are comped How you beat him: keep it friendly and keep it multiway. He came to gamble — your job is to be sitting there with the goods when he does.
SKSolver Kid Sam, chin on fist, puzzled by the table Solver Kid Sam The GTO Kid perfect prefloplost vs humans How you beat him: he's balanced against a population that isn't here. Overfold his triple barrels, punish his fixed sizings, watch him tilt.

Every dealt hand profiles villains like these — and grades your read. Deal a hand against them →

The Math Suite

Seven drills. Infinite questions.
Casino-floor numbers only.

Procedurally generated at live $1/2–$2/5 sizes — straddled pots included. Every answer key is re-derived independently by 1,555 automated checks, so the math is never wrong and never repeats.

The Trainer

Eleven Frameworks. One Dealt Hand. Zero Hand-Waving.

The Trainer deals a real spot — cards, chips, positions, opponent profiles, and a tagged action history. Then it walks every lens that matters, applied to this exact hand:

  • Ranges → Equity → Pot Odds → Implied & Reverse Implied — the math chain, with live-game numbers.
  • Fold Equity, Position, SPR & Commitment — the leverage chain.
  • Board Texture, Opponent Profile, Sizing & Tempo — the live-read chain.
  • Plus Effective Stacks & Coverage — taught on every hand, beyond the eleven.
Deal Me a Hand
The Concept Every Other App Skips

Effective Stacks & Coverage.

You're sitting $1,000 deep. One villain has $900, the other $200. The $900 stack means you can still be felted for almost everything — a deep stack behind you is risk, not comfort.

PokerThangs computes the effective stack against every villain on every dealt hand, and teaches you when coverage should tighten your range — and when it should loosen it.

$1,000YOU
EFF $900 — CAN FELT YOU
$900VIC · LAG
$200STU · STATION
Testimonials, Sort Of

Rave reviews from the people you'll beat.

“He used to be the fun one at this table. Now he tanks for exactly one second and snap-folds my river jam. I want the old guy back.”
♠︎ Straddle Steve · 1 star
“Counted my whole stack from across the room before he even sat down. Then he picked the seat on my left. Predatory behavior, honestly.”
♥︎ Vacation Vinny · 1 star
“I check-raised the turn. He looked at my drink, looked at my two little chips, said ‘nice hand’ and folded top pair. Who is teaching them this.”
♦︎ Limp-Call Larry · 1 star
“Every time I open, this person defends their straddle with hands my solver says are unplayable. Every time, they have it by the river. Unsubscribe.”
♣︎ Solver Kid Sam · 1 star

The regulars are fictional. The winrate they donate every Friday night is not.

Questions

Straight Answers.

Is this another GTO trainer?
No — and that's the point. GTO wins online against professionals. Your $1/2 game is decided by reads, seat selection, stack awareness, and honest arithmetic on messy pots. That's what we train. The theory that survives live play — pot odds, equity, SPR — is taught on real dealt hands, not flashcards.
Is it really free?
Right now, yes — everything, while we're in early access. The three questions above never leave this page, the pot-odds drill and daily trainer hands are free forever, and the full drill suite is open while we build. When paid tiers switch on, early players keep the best deal we'll ever offer.
Do I have to memorize charts?
Never. Every concept is taught inside a specific hand at a specific table against specific people. You build judgment, not recall.
What stakes is this for?
Live $1/2 and $1/3 no-limit hold'em — the games with $10–$25 opens, multiway pots, and the occasional $89 short-stack bomb. If you play $2/5, the reads and stack skills transfer directly.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes — the trainer and every drill are fully responsive. Run chip-count reps in line at the coffee shop.

Stop doing homework.
Start doing reps.

Free tier gets you the pot-odds drill and daily trainer hands — no card, no email. Upgrade later, when the reps start paying for themselves on the felt.

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