Confessions of a Winholdem User

[SavannahSlim]

Sigh. Now I understand how conspiracy theories get started, and how they never seem to die.

First, if I did not make it clear enough in my "Confessions," let me remove all doubt: Winholdem is a worthless POS. Here's why:
1. It does not--however much tweaking you do to its evaluation formulas--play holdem as well as even an average player. In many cases, it plays far worse.
2. The online "support" website's documentation is awful; it provides little advice on programming the evaluation formulas, and gives absolutely no explanation of the information headings. It also, as I mentioned before, does not provide a variable for position relative to the dealer, making positional evaluations impossible--a major lack.
3. The program cannot be copied to another computer. After paying $200 and installing their deluxe version on my work computer, I found that I could not copy it to my home computer. Also, their "demo" version works for only 24 hours--not nearly enough time to get it operational, given the tabula rasa state of its evaluation feature.
4. The "autoplay" feature requires a constant human monitor, because it makes horrifyingly stupid mistakes, not the least of which is failing to protect the blinds. This makes any autoplay feature a joke, since a visit to the bathroom can result in a foolish loss. It also does not appear to calculate (or it wrongly calculates) pot odds and implied odds.
5. The "team" feature--which I'll admit, I was stupid for not realizing what it was--is morally reprehensible and anyone using Winholdem for this feature deserves banning, at the very least. Even if the team feature were removed--which I highly recommend--Winholdem would still be of no value, since it consistently loses money.

I have another confession to make: I was caught on one of the poker clubs using Winholdem, and the combination of guilt and a feeling of betrayal (Winholdem asserted--wrongly, as it turned out--that changing the title bar of the Winholdem application would be enough to elude detection) was what brought me here to warn others of the uselessness of Winholdem. Having first read the other posts about the program, I realized that all the criticism came from individuals--principled to be sure--who had no experience with the program, and could not criticize it beyond simple accusation and name-calling. My "Confessions" were written to fill that informational void.

BTW, to those who are still certain this is all reverse psychology and I'm a shill for Winholdem because of the (unhappy) coincidence of my nick and the alleged home state of one of Winholdem's apparent supporters: "Savannah" is the name of one of my horses; I chose SavannahSlim as a nick here because--as a confessed user of Winholdem (or I should say, EX-user)--I feared getting blacklisted by other online holdem clubs if I used my usual playing nick. I'd hope that this would convince you that I believe that Winholdem is not only merely a POS, but really most sincerely a POS. But, as the Amazing Kreskin once said: "For the believer, no proof is necessary. For the unbeliever, no proof is possible."

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