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Your place at the table

Settle into your game

Choose heads-up, six-max, or nine seats. Open a no-limit Hold’em, fixed-limit Hold’em, or pot-limit Omaha table. Game settings take effect when you press “Open this table.” That starts a fresh hand with the chosen buy-in.

Stacks carry between deals. An empty seat replenishes to the chosen buy-in; your session result tracks chips won and lost, separately from those rebuys. “Fresh session” clears the current session results while preserving opponent statistics, notes, and HUD preferences.

Omaha uses exactly two of your four cards and three board cards. Fixed-limit bets are one big blind preflop and on the flop, and two big blinds on the turn and river. This room uses a four-bet cap on every street, including heads-up, with the big blind counting as the first preflop bet. A short fixed-limit all-in of at least half a bet reopens action; a smaller initial wager can be completed to a full bet. No-limit and pot-limit use full-raise reopening.

Make the HUD yours

Open “Customize HUD” for presets, individual statistics, text size, and felt colors. Each player has a raised HUD badge above their cards. Classic shows VPIP, PFR, 3-bet, and flop C-bet alongside the observed hand count. Tap a badge, name, or player card area at any time—even after a fold—to open their floating statistics and notes. The panel stays on your chosen player as turns advance. Tap a statistic for its definition; Close, Escape, or a click outside returns you to play. “Gathering hands” is represented by a dash until the first opportunity arrives. Statistics accumulate from completed hands, separately for each game, seat count, and opponent identity.

VPIP and PFR count hands; three-bets and continuation bets count eligible opportunities. AF divides postflop bets and raises by calls. Won-showdown counts winning any contested pot share, including splits. These conventions keep every displayed number reproducible from the hand history.

Explore the mathematics

Monte Carlo explores 256 possible deals from your cards and the public board. Opponent cards are sampled uniformly without replacement. The display estimates your share of a common pot at showdown; it does not include future decisions or individual side-pot eligibility. Its standard error describes sampling precision, while opponent-range assumptions remain a separate consideration.

The Hold’em map shows circular rank distance to your two ranks, their sum modulo thirteen, and their absolute difference. A likely map has seven or more ranks within distance one. Omaha distance features will receive their own explicit research design.

Choose “Observed profiles” at a heads-up or six-max no-limit Hold’em table to try opponents tuned to historical human VPIP, PFR, three-bet and flop continuation-bet rates. Their parameters were frozen before a one-million-hand practice audit. The player panel shows those reference rates separately from your own observed HUD. Table composition and stacks can change a player’s rates. Fern, Rook and the other opponents remain conventional practice policies; the separate WSRF training notebook explains the action-value experiments and their results.

Keep your discoveries

Sessions save in this browser on this device. “Save hand history” downloads the latest 300 completed hands and accumulated HUD counters. Reveal controls change what you see; each opponent continues to decide using its own cards and public observations.

References: Betting rules, Omaha, and HUD definitions. The room serves its scripts, styling, and imagery locally.