{"id":1767,"date":"2018-04-02T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advancedpokertraining.com\/poker\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2018-04-29T19:32:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T23:32:46","slug":"apts-combat-trainer-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokertraining.com\/poker\/blog\/apts-combat-trainer-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"APT’s Combat Trainer has Arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the middle of a tournament you defend your big blind to a raise with gapped suited connectors.\u00a0 You flop your straight draw. Great, you think, but now what do I do? Donk bet into the pre-flop raiser to show strength? Check-raise? Check-call? Check, and see if there is an empty cash table seat because you know this is not going to end well? This is just one of the seemingly endless tricky situations you encounter in Texas Hold’em. APT is very excited to announce the launch of their new tool: the Combat Trainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What The Combat Trainer Does<\/h2>\n

The Combat Trainer allows you to practice scenarios like the one above over and over again.\u00a0 Now you can play your hand multiple times, taking different lines each time, and examine the resulting actions of your opponent. In many scenarios, the board may vary slightly across iterations in a way that may alter your approach.<\/p>\n

I just ran through that Out of Position straight draw in Combat Trainer about 20 times. Let’s just say…it did not go well. The challenges\u00a0immediately became very clear. While a donk bet led to folds a couple of times, it also ran into a lot of raises. When I check, I almost always face a c-bet. Now I am left sorting through my three options and not feeling great about any of them. As it would in a live game, my decision often led to another difficult decision. I was either re-raised or, when I check-called, faced a large turn bet.<\/p>\n

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Combat Trainer has Arrived!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This very common scenario is clearly something I am far from having even fundamental mastery over.\u00a0 I’ll clearly need to practice a number of times to refine my approach. As the APT team developed the Combat Trainer, I realized quickly how unique this offering is. Being able to isolate tricky situations and get focal, condensed practice is a rare opportunity.\u00a0 When playing live I might get the OOP straight draw situation once or twice in a tournament. I can take some notes and reflect on my approach, but I am clearly not building that skill in the way that focused study would. It would take months of live play to experience the number of alternative situations I can encounter in a few minutes with the Combat Trainer.<\/p>\n

Current Scenarios<\/h2>\n

The Combat Trainer is set up for six categories. Currently, for APT paying members, there is one scenario available for each category:<\/p>\n