The use of coaching tools can be tremendously beneficial, especially if we consider that they can help in a very natural way to improve the game and refine those aspects of our strategy less worked when playing poker.
The idea is to train users so that the role of these tools makes logical sense, as they are an assistance with tremendous potential that can help to greatly improve the way we play and make readings of the games.
The main advantage of GGPoker’s Ask Fedor is that it analyses your game in real time to issue a series of tips to help you identify weaknesses in your strategy in real time. This helps the player to know what is really going wrong with his style of play, helping him to improve right from the moment the game is being played.
Co-created by GGPoker ambassador Fedor Holz, the system uses AI and a series of neural networks to perform analysis at a processing speed that surpasses any human capacity to issue advice and devise different strategies based on what is happening on the table.
While there is no official confirmation of exactly how this tool works, it is presumably based on GTO’s approximate gameplay to turn novice players into poker pros.
GGPoker’s Ask Fedor can be used at the end of a hand, immediately afterwards. Simply click the “Ask Fedor” button and it will analyse the hand and rate it on a simple 5-star system. Each rating comes with a breakdown that can be consulted to find out in detail what hits the software has detected and what weaknesses it has identified.
In this way, players can instantly see what they did and didn’t do well in each hand, which encourages self-learning and can be of great help in cases where players want to professionalize away from the crowds and crowded tables.
The program has already been used on a number of tables on a trial basis, giving all players the opportunity to try it out a maximum of five times. However, Holz acknowledged that the program was still under development and that in order to gain unlimited access it is possible to create additional subscription plans to those already designed, which propose cumulative savings as months are added to the subscription.
However, the approach Holz insists on is to use the tool as a support and not as a means to be the perfect player. In fact, he believes that there is no such thing and that the AI is only an aid to help refine certain aspects of the game, but that it is by no means 100% infallible, so it is important to measure personal ambitions and expectations for future games.
Although poker platforms are developing their own hand analysis and study tools, the truth is that, in terms of price range and features, GGPoker has carved out a niche for itself among the high-end tools for playing poker. In fact, the immediacy and accuracy of the data it provides immediately places it among the most attractive options for those users looking for a fast, easy to use and very useful software.
Ask Fedor’s success lies precisely in its accuracy, which has immediately made it one of the most attractive tools for players around the world, regardless of their experience or level of expertise.
Ask Fedor’s other strength is its accessibility. While at first it may seem like an overly simple tool, that’s only because it is tremendously accessible, but that manageability does not mean that the tool is incapable of reading complex hands or outputting accurate data no matter how convoluted the play is.
However, the current version does not yet support cash drops or dead chips, nor does it support PLO games, Bounty tournaments or sit & go games.
In fact, Ask Fedor is already working on expanding the benefits of this tool to other types of games, beyond Texas Hold’em cash games, Rush & Cash and NHL tournaments, the three types of games Ask Fedor are currently working with.
It also has limitations in terms of the number of players. At the moment, the tool is only available for games with up to 8 players, the maximum number allowed if the aim is to play on equal terms and bring the software closer to all the opponents at the table. However, a mobile version seems to be in the works, which would transfer all the features of the program to a ‘pocket’ version, although there is no confirmation of this at the moment.