I talked to Andrew Emory the other day. Emory is the creator of Next Generation Poker, an application for tracking live poker sessions (how much won and lost and similar info) and hand analysis (inputting hands played and learning about hand equity and range equity). It’s available for iOS and coming soon for Android.
A few interesting things about this:
Best hand in Omaha?
They ran analysis of Omaha hands, to determine best to worst hands. Emory says that, as far as he knows, they’re the first ones to run an in-depth simulation on this. The best hand was determined to be Ace-Ace-Ten-Ten doublesuited, which may be surprising to some people. Some other sites list the best hands as A-A-K-K, then A-A-J-T, then A-A-Q-Q (here’s an example of that on PokerListings).
Here’s their page showing this work on NextGenerationPoker.com. Emory admits it’s surprising. If you think they’re wrong, let me know, I’ll pass it along. Or contact them directly on their site.
They did that analysis for Hold’Em but that analysis wasn’t surprising and I think showed the hands as you’d expected.
Their app offers hand/range analysis
Emory said that one value of their app would be in running hand and range analysis at the table in a live game, to see if your own understanding of such things mapped to reality. I agree that doing such things is very valuable, as it allows for more real time feedback on our thinking. Also, with phones these days, when you lean back from the table a bit, nobody will notice you’re working on your game (and I def don’t like to let people know that I take the game seriously when at the table, but that’s just my own preference, some people have different thoughts on that). Here’s some descriptions of what their app does, analysis wise.