sixmax.app
Learn 6-max hold’em by playing it
Play full hands of 6-max no-limit hold’em cash against five bots, starting from the beginner level. After each of your decisions, see what the solver or the starting ranges recommend, and the reasons, in numbers.
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A study tool, with play chips only
Every hand is played for play chips. There is no real money, nothing to buy with chips and no gambling. sixmax.app does not connect to any poker site, and it must never be used during real-money play. It helps you study the game; it does not promise that you will win money.
How it works
You sit at a six-seat table with five bots. Every hand starts at 100 big blinds a seat, with blinds of 0.5 and 1, and the button moves each hand. Side pots, all-ins and minimum raises follow the usual rules.
After each decision you make, the coach panel shows the recommended action or mix of actions, where that advice came from, the expected value (EV) of each action where one is computed, and how much EV your choice gave up. A short list of reasons comes with it, built only from the computed numbers: which starting range holds your hand, the price of a call against your equity, and the solver’s frequencies and EVs.
Where the advice comes from
Each piece of feedback is labeled with its source, so you know how much to trust it.
Preflop: starting ranges
every preflop decision
Your action is checked against hand-made starting ranges for each seat, written from principles. You see whether you matched them. There are no EVs before the flop.
Flop and multiway pots: approximate guidance
heads-up flops, and any street with three or more players
Simple rules based on your equity against the opponents’ likely ranges. Facing a bet, the call is priced as if the hand were checked down. This guidance is labeled approximate.
Heads-up turn and river: an exact solver
two players left on the turn or river
A solver works out the turn and river in the background, over a set of bet sizes (half pot, pot and all-in). Each answer shows its quality: how many iterations it ran and how far it is from exact, with a warning when it is still rough.
The bots play from the same sources: the starting ranges preflop, the rules on the flop and in multiway pots, and the solver on heads-up turns and rivers. Every bot action is labeled, and their reasoning is shown after the hand.
What it does today
- Full 6-max hands against five bots, for play chips.
- Feedback after every decision: the recommended play, its source, EVs where computed, and the EV you gave up.
- Concept cards that appear the first time a hand shows them: position, opening ranges, facing raises, pot odds, value and bluffs, c-bets, and sizing.
- Optional hints before you act, naming the concept and the price, never the answer.
- A guide for your first hands that fades as you play each concept well.
- A session review grouped by concept: EV lost, how often you matched, your biggest mistakes with their reasons, and “Play more hands like this”.
- A hand history with every card, action and bot’s reasoning.
- A sandbox: see and change any card, yours, a bot’s or the board’s, and play on from the same point. Sandbox hands stay out of your progress.
- Made for a phone first, and it works on a desktop. Install it to your home screen (on an iPhone, Share → Add to Home Screen).
- Light and dark mode. Your progress is saved after every move, so you can stop and resume the same hand.
Limits
- The starting ranges are hand-made, not solved.
- The solver covers only heads-up turns and rivers, over a few bet sizes. Pots that become heads-up only on the turn or river, and second raises on a street, fall back to the rules, labeled as such.
- Ranges are estimated by assuming that you play like the bots.
- Rake is not modeled.
Planned, not yet built
- A solver for flop decisions
- EVs for preflop decisions