Track your stack the way you do at the table — the dealer calls chips, you count big blinds← home
Stack at last checkpoint
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Run
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Best
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Accuracy
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Checks
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Hands
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Each card is one beat of the hand, shown once — like swiping a feed, you can’t scroll back. The dealer calls
every bet in chips; convert it to big blinds on the fly (the blind level is your key, top-left)
and keep a running bb count from your last-checkpoint stack. Your own bets and calls move it;
villain’s actions don’t. When you win, the card hands you the whole pot in chips to convert and add. At
a gold checkpoint, type the bb stack you’ve been tracking. Swipe, press
→ / Enter, or tap Next to advance.
The idea
Why this is different from an action summary
At a real table nobody hands you a tidy list of every bet. Action arrives one beat at a time and is
gone the moment the next player acts. The only way to know your stack is to have been counting the whole
time. This drill recreates that: a never-ending stream of hands, each action on its own card, no rewind.
You carry one number in your head and the game keeps moving.
How to count fast
Convert chips to bb as they leave — never reconstruct later
new stack (bb) = last-checkpoint stack − (chips in ÷ bb) + (pot won ÷ bb)
The dealer talks chips; you think in bb. Every bet is announced as a raw chip amount. Divide by the
big blind (shown top-left) the moment you see it, then move your bb count — that on-the-fly conversion is
the whole drill.
Only your chips move your stack. A villain bet, raise, or fold changes the pot, not you. The card
shows no change on purpose — resist nudging your number.
Calls cost the difference. If you open and then call a 3-bet, the card shows only the extra
chips you put in, not the total — convert that and subtract.
Winning is one addition. When you take the pot, the card gives you the full amount (your own
chips included) — just add it to your running count.
Re-anchor every checkpoint. Each checkpoint reveals the truth and becomes your new base, so a
miss never snowballs — but it breaks your run.
Re-buys reset you to the buy-in — the card tells you the new stack, so just adopt it.
Why chips in, bb out
Train the conversion you actually do at the table
At a live table the dealer never says “three big blinds” — they push out a stack and call chips. But
every decision you make is in bb of depth. The gap between those two is a conversion you have to do in
real time, hand after hand. This drill drills exactly that gap: bets arrive in chips at a real limit (e.g.
75/150, where amounts aren’t round multiples of ten), and you keep your stack in big blinds. Same journey,
same hands — the dealer just speaks chips and you answer in bb.