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The Combonator is study tool for Hold'em games to count combinations and analyse ranges.

To understand exactly what that means, you can see a screenshot and watch a short introductory screencast on the homepage:

http://combonator.com

If you can't stand 8 minutes of a British accent, I suggest you just go ahead and download it, there's a short 4-page presentation when you load the program:

http://combonator.com/download/

I would recommend you either read it or watch the screencast because parts of the interface are unique to the program and things might be a bit confusing at first.

The Combonator has been out a while now and is used by a small group of users. I've finally finished a 3-part tutorial and put more information up on the website, so I thought it time I started to announce it publicly. If you want to learn more, the tutorial is up here:

http://combonator.com/help/

If you are an old v1.0 user or beta tester, you may not realise that version 1.1 is out with a bunch of improvements to the outputs tab. You can learn more on the blog here:

http://blog.combonator.com/31204374

The project first started out as just a tool for personal use, to fill the gap left by the demise of Stoxcombo (whilst fixing some of the bugs and a more intuitive take on the interface). But since then it's grown in to a much broader bag of tricks for looking at opponents ranges and balancing your own range, and board texture analysis (a la flopzilla).

The program is free to use, but there is a paid 'pro' version that unlocks a couple of features. I wanted to make sure the tool is is fully functional and useful in the free vanilla form, so there's no time limit, no nag screen. I hope in v1.2 to expand the feature set of the pro version significantly.

Looks very interesting. I'm definitely thinking of buying it.

Just a couple suggestions:

* input of hero's range instead of just holecards
* display percentages and number of combos on the chart
* maybe add some more charts types
* add the ability to copy the different parts of the range to clipboard instead of just export to slice and pokerstove

Thanks for the feedback.

Looks very interesting. I'm definitely thinking of buying it.

Just a couple suggestions:

* input of hero's range instead of just holecards

I'm not sure how this would work in practice. Right now, a hero's cards are used in 2 ways: to remove the dead cards when counting combinations, and doing the 'better than hero' autoselection. In these 2 contexts, having a hero 'range' doesn't seem relevant.

Often I do analysis on my own range (i.e. looking at how well I'm balanced in spots, folding bottom parts of range etc), and then I just analyse my range as I would villains and just leave out the hero cards.

* display percentages and number of combos on the chart

Yep definitely want to look at that. I did have a much nicer graph tab but I had some technical problems so I switched to a much more basic (ugly) one which doesn't support labels etc.

* maybe add some more charts types

Certainly welcome to any suggestions on how best to show the data.

* add the ability to copy the different parts of the range to clipboard instead of just export to slice and pokerstove

Well you have the 'combos' tab that shows the exact combinations for different parts of the range (you can select entire range, all grouped/ungrouped combos, and specific groups). There's also a similar output in the output tab. Does that cover what you need?

Thanks for your quick response. I was kinda playing around with how best to visually represent ranges and the rest of the data. Just some ideas.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2agnmad.jpg

Also, are we able to save our work? Let's say we've done an extensive range analysis, can we save it to a file for future use?

Thanks for your quick response. I was kinda playing around with how best to visually represent ranges and the rest of the data. Just some ideas.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2agnmad.jpg

Wow this looks v nice. Although I think it is going to stretch my artistic abilities unless I can find a decent control set that can produce visualisations like this. I will look in to it.

Also, are we able to save our work? Let's say we've done an extensive range analysis, can we save it to a file for future use?

This is top of the list of new features. I have it mostly working in my dev version, along with undo/redo. There's both planned to be 'pro' features.

Nice work Hood. A good looking app.

Just released a bug fix release (v1.11), some people were having problems with Combonator starting up off-screen.

Was this developed in autoit? I had been working on something similar for a long time. Mine calculates equities on the fly with monte carlo~

Was this developed in autoit? I had been working on something similar for a long time. Mine calculates equities on the fly with monte carlo~

Cripes no, I wouldn't dream of developing something so complex with autoit/autohotkey. Just writing the hand evaluation code would be horrendous, let alone the interface. I can't imagine doing a monte-carlo equity simulation.

It's developed in Python with wx for the GUI.

badass prog, fwiw. You've implemented most of waht I wanted. Thanks a bunch.

bookmarked and cool tool^^
btw.,
after have watched the tutorial, it seems that the free version cannot analyze turn/riverspots, but only flopspots - is this right?

bookmarked and cool tool^^
btw.,
after have watched the tutorial, it seems that the free version cannot analyze turn/riverspots, but only flopspots - is this right?

No that's not correct - the free version certainly can analyse turn river spots (and the 'reduce range to these hands' feature that aids in this analysis is present in the free version). As of v1.1, there's 2 features that you only get in the 'pro' version:

- Groups 3 and 4
- The 'values' output tab that gives board texture analsis.

In v1.2, out next week, the feature set of the pro will grow. But the free one will always be free and won't be crippled. I want to keep the free version useful for all.

No that's not correct - the free version certainly can analyse turn river spots (and the 'reduce range to these hands' feature that aids in this analysis is present in the free version). As of v1.1, there's 2 features that you only get in the 'pro' version:

- Groups 3 and 4
- The 'values' output tab that gives board texture analsis.

In v1.2, out next week, the feature set of the pro will grow. But the free one will always be free and won't be crippled. I want to keep the free version useful for all.

ah ok, but without capable of analyzing the values (value of % handkind X has of a range), the free version is imo pretty useless.
But this is not an offense b/c 25$ is of course a very fair price and i will def. buy the proversion tomorrow or so...
the tool is just great and muh better then for example flopzilla b/c you can set suites and more...
Even better than stoxcombo which is no more available and anyways does not work with Win7 -> so thank you very much for this tool^^
Will you update this thread when there are some news (updates, new features...)?

this looks super awesome!
gonna try it out later
work with me on web stuff ?