Discovering a Poker Equity Calculator      Today we are going to be discussing how I discovered actually using a poker equity calculator for the first time. I had always seen the square charts with a million little boxes on them and I knew if it looked like a lot of them were colored in that meant loose, but I had never taken the time or had the faith I could learn a set of ranges.  I had even watched videos of people doing things with Flopzilla and it kind of washed over me while I waited for the part of the video where I got to watch someone play poker.        This time around I promised myself to learn how to use an efficient set of tools in order to have reinforced feedback during my study sessions without a partner.  I knew that involved getting familiar with the squares filled with boxes I had seen everywhere.  As I stated earlier the one I had heard of was Flopzilla, but when I came back to poker everyone was recommending Equilab so I snagged that one instead.      I clicked on

  Learning Journal Entry #4: Finding the roots of my poker suffering      Thanks for coming back and checking on the next edition of my poker journey from complete buffoon to partial buffoon…  I mean CRUSHER!  So far, we went through me realizing I needed to join a course because I had no idea what I was doing on my own as well as some of my experiences after deciding to sign up for the Raise Your Edge cash game course.      At this point in my poker learning adventure, I had already signed up, watched videos, and taken notes on them, and I had begun keeping a hand-drawn notebook of range charts and learnings.  That is where I get all the images I start my blog posts with.  It is not always going to be pretty, but I will do my best to show you the evolution of my thinking as I went along.      All that being said, we are joining me at a time where I really thought I was figuring things out.  I was pretty sure I was going to be a crusher of 6-max NLHE within a month of starting to learn