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Additionally, the better programs should let you examine specific situations and repeatedly play them, without changing the results that you would have gotten (i.e. it doesn't "learn" and adjust to what you are doing, while you are repeating a situation).

Software is like good poker books- you can just skim them and learn a little or spend some time with them, do a lot of thinking and analysis at your own pace and learn to apply those lessons in the heat of battle.

Just like many poker books, software has its limitations and difficulties as well. Just like digesting poker books, you have to apply your own intelligence to what information you are receiving.

Learning to play poker is much more effective away from the action; playing experience is what sharpens the lessons and really brings them home.