The Trainer, still in BETA, points your practice at exactly the spot you want to work on, from a broad preflop scenario to one precise line you build yourself.
Open it and you land on the config screen, where Custom, Preflop Spots and Drills give you three ways to choose what to train. New to the Trainer? Getting Started with the Trainer covers the basics first.
Three ways to choose what to train
The config screen opens on the Custom tab. Three of the tabs aim the Trainer at a spot, each in a different way:
- Preflop Spots targets a whole type of preflop situation in a single pick.
- Custom builds a full action line seat by seat, for when you want one exact spot.
- Drills picks a ready-made spot from a library, or one you saved earlier.
Pick the tab that matches how specific you want to be, then set up the spot and start.
Target a preflop scenario
Open Preflop Spots to drill a whole category of preflop situation at once. Pick one from the Preflop Spot selector: Any, RFI, vs RFI, vs 3Bet, vs 4Bet or vs RFI + Call. Each option narrows practice to that one situation.
The Hero Position block below the selector sets which seat you play the spot from: EP, MP, CO, BTN, SB or BB. With vs RFI selected, EP is disabled.
Build a custom spot
When no preset matches the spot in your head, switch to Custom and build the line yourself.
Start with the Game Configuration panel at the top of the Custom tab. It is the same panel Strategies uses. Simulation Types explains which to pick.
- Pick your room in the Site row and, on No Rake, Precision or Expand in the Study row.
- Set each seat's action to fold, call, check or raise.
- Stop when the line reaches the spot you want to train.
- Click Start Training to play it.
The Action Sequence builder gives you one row per position: EP, MP, CO, BTN, SB and BB. Restart clears the sequence and lets you build the line again from scratch.
When your line is set, the Custom panel also has a Save as drill control.
Pick a ready-made drill
The Drills tab has pre-built spots, ready to start practising without setting anything up yourself. Two sub-tabs split them: FlopHero drills, the built-in set, and My Drills.
FlopHero drills are grouped by pot type, such as Single Raised Pots and 3 Bet Pots. Each drill is named by the position matchup, for example BTN vs BB.
Each one is played from one of the two seats, so a single-raised-pot drill covers the postflop play too. Use the Simulation filter above the list to narrow the drills by simulation type.
Start training and track your progress
However you choose the spot, Start Training begins the session. From there, Reading Trainer Feedback covers how each hand is scored. Trainer Settings changes how the Trainer plays. To see how you improve across many sessions, open Trainer History and Statistics.