Blind (Small blind/big blind): These are the forced bets that take the place of an ante. The person to the left of the dealer must pay the small blind and the person after him must pay the big blind.

Poker Droid is a free program for tracking your poker statistics: tournament positions, earnings, return on investment, hot and cold streaks, and much more.

PokerTracking.com is a free web-based service for keeping track of your poker sessions and bankroll.

Probability and Hand Analysis
David Daniel's simulation package allows you to explore Poker probabilities in any situation by setting up the position you wish to study and generating a large number of deals consistent with that position. It is available from the Poker Wiz site.

The following programs allow you to analyse probabilities in various situations, or input hands to obtain a recommendation on how they should be played.

At the PokerGrader site you can upload your online poker hand histories (Party Poker, Empire Poker or Poker Stars formats supported) and obtain an automatically generated report analysing how well you have played.

From the Turning River site you can download free software for calculating the odds of winning or splitting the pot in various Texas Holdem and Omaha situations.

The Texas Holdem Calculator calculates winning odds, probabilities and optimal bets at pre-flop, flop, and river stages, and helps you to determine winning starting hands depending on the number of players in the pot. Available for Windows, Palm OS and Pocket PC PDAs.

With David Martin's Holdem Odds Calculator you set your hole cards, and if you wish the flop and turn, and the program displays the odds of improving the hand and the size of pot that justifies a call, bet or raise.

EV Tester is a small program in which you can enter your history of Texas Hold'em hands and find out whether you have been luckier or unluckier than average on a series of deals (purely in terms of the hole cards you were dealt).

Poker Drill Master is a shareware poker training program that calculates pot odds and winning probabilities and outs, and enables you to test various pre-flop decision methodologies.

OddsPoker.co.uk is a free poker odds calculator for Texas Holdem. You enter in the web page the number of players and your two hole cards and it calculates your odds of having the best hand. A similar calculation can be done after the flop, turn and river.

Software for Home Poker Players and League Organisers.
The Poker2night Tournament Clock is a Poker Tournament Clock and Blinds Manager utility for PC specifically designed for Home Poker Players.

Several people have published free web-based software to help organize your own poker league, schedule games, record results and keep track of statistics:

Poker League Manager
Squirrel in a Box
Home Poker Tour
Playing poker against the computer
With the following programs you play poker against computer (AI) opponents.

Mobile Texas Holdem is a Texas Holdem program for mobile phones. Limit and No Limit games are available against 9 AI opponents. You can download a free trial version of Mobile Texas Holdem.

With the DD Tournament Poker program you can play No Limit Texas Hold'em against computer opponents; it can also be used to manage the blinds, levels, buy-ins, rebuys, add-ons and payouts in a live tournament.

You can download Maareyes Solomon's free Texas Holdem Video Poker tutor, in which you see the flop and choose which of five pairs of hole cards to play against the other four.

The computer program Ultimate Poker is available from Accidental Software

AI Software offers computer versions of Texas Hold'em, Seven card Stud, Five card Draw and Omaha Hi.

Vladlen Zeniukov's Poker computer program, which plays Draw Poker, Texas Holdem and Omaha, is available from his Card Parade web site.

A further list of poker software can be found at Pokerlistings.com.