What If You Could Retry Any Poker Hand?

Seriously, what if you could retry any poker hand? What if you could try out a few different strategies and see how your opponents react? How much more quickly would you be able to improve?

Our friends at Advanced Poker Training, always on the cutting edge, have answered that question by adding a Retry feature into all their games. The Retry feature (as opposed to just watching a replay), allows you to actively play the hand out over again from the beginning. This allows you to experiment with different lines and see how this impacts your overall results, and your opponents’ actions on each street.

For example, early in a tournament with the blinds at 50-100, you have 9 9 in the small blind with two limpers. On your first attempt you decide to set mine so you just complete the blind. With a Q 6 2 flop you check and the hand is checked around to the cutoff who bets 300. You call and the other players fold. An 8 comes on the turn, you check, the cutoff bets 750 and you fold.

Retrying the hand, you attempt four different lines:

• You raise preflop to 500. All three opponents fold.
• You limp preflop, open for 300 on the flop, get raised to 800 by the cutoff. You decide to fold.
• You limp preflop, check the flop, the cutoff bets 300, you raise to 800 and get called by the cutoff. You check the turn, the cutoff bets 1,200. You decide to fold.
• You limp preflop, check the flop, the cutoff bets 300, you call. You lead out 1,000 on the turn and the cutoff folds.

When you peek at your opponent’s cards (which you can do on APT), you see A 4 for a nut flush draw. The Retry feature thus allowed you to try out four alternate lines, and provided valuable insight into the effects of your actions on this particular hand.

Besides the Retry feature, 2017 was a big year for Advanced Poker Training in other ways as well. There was, of course, the publication of From Vietnam to Vegas! How I Won the World Series of Poker Main Event co-authored by founder Steve Blay and 2016 WSOP main event Champ Qui Nguyen.

In April 2017, the site added a heads-up cash game and sit-n-go trainer. This past summer, they also added an interactive poker odds tool, a tournament chop tool, and a shove-or-fold tool. In November, APT began releasing video commentary by 2017 WSOP main event champion Scott Blumstein. Viewers can watch Scott review key hands from the 2017 main event final table, and then set up the hand in the APT Final Table Trainer and practice playing it themselves.

AdvancedPokerTraining.com made innovations in 2017 that continued to enhance their already wide base of features. Founder Steve Blay describes the site as, “Not only a tool for skill development, but a community of members and site developers who continue to challenge one another to create the ideal poker training environment.”

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