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Poker Skill Trainer

Poker Skill Trainer is a free poker trainer that runs in your browser, with no sign-up and no download.

Hand 1 of 10

Tank Time With Trips

Trips facing a flop re-raise

K1010

Pot 335

A10

Read Needs ProofTrips still need worse hands or bluffs in the raising range.

At a live 1/2 cash table, you defend the big blind multiway after a preflop raise to 11.

The flop is K♣ 10♣ 10♠ and you hold A♥ 10♦, giving you trips. The cutoff bets 11 into 66, you check-raise to 60, and the cutoff re-raises to 209. Calling 149 puts you all-in into a 335-chip pot.

The cutoff's preflop raise was bigger than his usual sizing. What do you do?

The action's on you. What do you do?

Hint: Think about how narrow the read really makes his range.

Your score

optimal moves

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Your ten hands

A new Daily Puzzle every day in the app

How the score works

You play ten hands from the Poker Skill app's puzzles and decide what to do in each. Coach Max grades every decision against our poker AI's strategy and explains why.

Every choice carries the app's own grade for that puzzle: Optimal Move, Good Move, Suboptimal Move or Incorrect Move, worth three stars down to none. Your score is how many of the ten you played optimally. Beside it you see how often app users found the optimal move on the same hands, and the street you missed most, with the app's lesson for that street when it has one.

Three more hands to try

Choose before you open the answer.

When the Board Catches Up

Pocket sixes, a full house, and a double-paired board

6♦ 6♣

Six-handed no-limit cash. You hold 6♦ 6♣ in the big blind.

The small blind makes a tiny reraise before the flop, the button calls, and it is three-way to 6♠ 8♥ 9♥.

Your sixes hit the flop, you raise the 8♦ turn to 800 chips, and he calls.

The 9♦ pairs the board a second time, leaving you sixes full of nines - any eight or nine beats it. He shoves 1,255; you have 888 behind.

He's all in and the decision is yours. What's your move?

Fold
All-in

See the grades and Coach Max's reason

Fold: Good Move
All-in: Optimal Move

Still Just a Bluff-Catcher. The question at 22.8% is not whether a bigger boat exists but whether his line still carries missed draws; the price is a bar, not a bluff count.

The optimal move: All-in.

Six-Handed Final Table

Suited ace, 12 BB UTG, bigger stacks behind

10♦ A♦

At a no-limit Hold'em tournament you reach the six-handed final table.

You hold A♦ 10♦ in the UTG seat with 12.05 BB behind — the largest stack sits on the button and the only shorter stack is at the cutoff.

The blinds are 0.5/1 BB with 0.12 BB antes from every player, and the immediate pay bump from sixth to fifth is small next to top finishes. Action is on you first.

The action's on you. What do you do?

Fold
Raise to 4.22 BB
Jam 12.05 BB

See the grades and Coach Max's reason

Fold: Incorrect Move
Raise to 4.22 BB: Suboptimal Move
Jam 12.05 BB: Optimal Move

Press, Don't Wait. Open-jamming wins the blinds and antes the most often and avoids the raise/fold leaks of a smaller open at this depth.

The optimal move: Jam 12.05 BB.

Pocket Queens vs. an All-In

Pocket queens facing a button all-in

Q♥ Q♠

At a 1/2 live cash game you hold pocket queens UTG. You cover the button, but effective stacks start at 200 chips.

You open to 10, MP calls, the button raises to 27, both blinds fold, and you 4-bet to 100. MP folds, and the button counters with a 5bet jam for his last 200.

You face a 100-chip call into a 313-chip pot, with no behavioral read on the button. What's your play?

The action's on you. What do you do?

Fold
Call 100

See the grades and Coach Max's reason

Fold: Good Move
Call 100: Optimal Move

Price Beats the Unknown Range. At about 24% required equity, queens clear an unknown shove range. Only a proven premium-only read would make folding the better answer.

The optimal move: Call 100.

Puzzles like these, every day

The app deals a new Daily Puzzle every day, with Coach Max explaining each answer. Poker Skill is free. Forever.

Questions

Is Poker Skill Trainer free?

Yes, with no sign-up and no download. Poker Skill is free. Forever.

Do I need an account?

No. You can play every hand without an account or an email address.

Is there a daily limit?

No. After ten hands you can deal ten more, as many times as you like. Once you've played every hand, the rounds start over.

Is it a poker simulator?

It's a trainer, not a full game: each hand stops at one decision, you choose and Coach Max grades it. To play full hands against AI opponents that play to win, use the Poker Skill app's Practice vs AI.

Who grades my answers?

Coach Max grades every choice against our poker AI's strategy for the spot and explains each grade in plain words.

Is this real-money poker?

No. Nothing is played for real money, here or in the app.