Basics
What is the Razz Simulator?
The Razz Simulator allows you to simulate all-in
situations between two or more razz hands. Just enter the ranks
of each hand (no suits!) and go!
What are the results telling me?
The race results page tells you the pot-equity percentage
for each hand, as well as the number of wins and ties for each hand.
What do you mean by pot-equity percentage?
This represents the average amount of money a particular
hand wins from the pot, after taking ties into account.
I'm getting an "invalid race" error. What's going on?
For a race to be valid, it must have two or more hands. Also, make sure there are enough cards in the deck to satisfy your request. For example, in hold'em, you can't race aces against ace-king if there are two aces on the board.
Advanced
How does the range of hands stuff work?
For the face down cards, you need not indicate a specific card. Use the star character ('*') to mean "any card". Use a plus or minus sign after a rank to mean "this card or higher" or "this card or lower". Finally, you can use parentheses to indicate that a sequence of cards has no pairs. Take a look at the syntax summary and example simulations on the
simulation editor page.
What's the difference between "exhaustive" and "random"
race results?
An exhaustive simulation is one where every possible
combination of hands and boards is dealt, and the resulting answers are exact.
A random simulation is an approximation. In a typical random simulation, ProPokerTools performs 600,000 trials, which for most folks is more hands than they will see in years. With 600,000 trials, pot equity percentages will rarely be off by more than a few tenths (or hundredths) of a percentage point. In some cases, even 600,000 trials may take too long, in which case a smaller number of trials are run.