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PokerSharp is in closed testing on Android, and anyone can ask to join. Use the Google account that is signed in to the Play Store on your phone for every step:

Almost always one of three things: the Play Store on your phone is signed in to a different Google account than the one you requested access with, your request hasn’t been approved yet, or the approval is a few minutes old and Play hasn’t caught up. Switch accounts in the Play Store (tap your profile picture), wait a little, and open the testing page again. Still stuck? Email support@ycwdesign.com.

You get the full app before it’s public, and updates as fast as they’re built. All we ask is that you play it and tell us when something is wrong: shake your phone on any screen to send a bug report with a screenshot. The app may occasionally ask you one short question about how it feels; answering is optional and skipping is one tap.

Open the Google Play testing page and tap Leave the program, then uninstall the app if you like. You can also leave the Google Group from its page. Your hand history lives on your phone, so uninstalling removes it unless you exported a backup or turned on Cloud Backup first.

PokerSharp is a mobile training app that teaches Game Theory Optimal (GTO) strategy for No-Limit Texas Hold’em. Eight drills cover the full skill spectrum: preflop drills, solved flop drills, a live cash-game mode against adaptive AI opponents, board reading, showdown drills, equity estimation, pot-odds speed drills, and custom scenarios, plus deep analytics that show exactly where you’re losing EV. Every mode is broken down on the Game Modes page. It is a study tool only: no real-money play, no multiplayer.

No. There is no sign-up, no login, and no account of any kind. Even PokerSharp Pro works anonymously through your app store account. All your training data lives on your device.

Yes, every training feature works with no connection at all: drills, the live cash-game mode, range charts, hand history, and analytics. The free version’s ads need a connection to load; offline, ad slots simply stay blank and everything else keeps working.

Both, everywhere. Preflop training, the flop drill, the live cash game, and the range chart browser all support 6-max and 9-max tables, with separate solved ranges for every position at each table size: 106 range grids in total, all at 100bb effective stacks. Switch table size in Train’s funnel menu or with the 6-MAX / 9-MAX toggle in Live’s header; the app remembers your choice. The flop library is split the same way: six solved preflop lines per table size, solved at that size’s own prices rather than reusing the 6-max numbers.

Yes. Train mode’s funnel menu has a Streets picker. The flop street drills 1,141 solved boards across twelve real preflop lines (six at 6-max and six at 9-max, four single-raised pots and two 3-bet pots each) and rotates through four decision types: c-betting, facing a c-bet, facing a raise, and stabbing after a check. By default you play the hand from the start: the table deals the preflop spot on that line and grades your decision with the full range breakdown, then the flop lands and the graded flop decision follows. The same picker switches to flop-only (the preflop action fast-forwards) or back to the preflop drill. The result panel shows the solver’s real action frequencies, real per-hand EVs, the EV your answer gave up, and a 13×13 strategy grid for the whole range on that board. A flop-only hand costs the same chips as a preflop hand, and a full preflop-plus-flop hand costs two. It is not a Pro feature either way.

Everything is computed with a CFR (counterfactual regret minimization) solver, the same class of algorithm behind the major desktop solvers, then imported into the app and validated. Preflop ranges are solved at 100bb with a fixed bet tree (2.5bb opens, 8.5bb / 11bb 3-bets, 11bb squeezes, 22–24bb 4-bets), and the app’s buttons use those exact sizes so the strategy always matches the spot. Flop strategies are solved through to the river at 33% and 75% pot bet sizes with 60% pot raises, to an exploitability target of 0.5% of the pot. Your decisions are graded against the solver’s actual fold/call/raise frequencies for that exact spot, not simplified rules of thumb. The full method and every parameter are on the home page.

Chips are a free counter that meters how many training hands you can deal in the free version. You get a starting stack when you install, and you can refill three ways: Chips can’t be bought with money, can’t be cashed out, and have no monetary value. They only pace the free experience.

You’ll be offered a short ad to keep playing: either a quick, skippable one for a small refill or a full rewarded video for a bigger one. You’re never hard-blocked: there is always a path to keep training.

Three common reasons: the bonus ad is on its cooldown timer, you’ve reached the daily rewarded-ad cap (it resets each day), or your device is offline and the ad can’t load. The daily bonus and the out-of-chips flow keep working regardless of the cap.

No. That’s a hard rule in PokerSharp: ads never interrupt a hand in progress on any gameplay screen. Ads appear only between hands, and rewarded ads only when you choose to watch one.

Open the app → Settings → Ad privacy options. That re-opens the Google consent form where you can choose non-personalized ads. You can also reset or delete your device’s advertising ID in Android or iOS system settings. Details are in our Privacy Policy.

PokerSharp Pro removes all ads, removes the chip meter (unlimited hands in every mode), and unlocks X-Ray Replay, a full-table replay of any completed cash hand with every card face-up and live win-equity for each seat, plus the Fold Skipper training option. Every future update is included. The current price is always shown in the app before you buy.

Pro is not a subscription. It’s a single one-time purchase through Google Play or the App Store: you pay once, it never renews, and there is nothing to cancel. It stays unlocked on your store account for good, including on a new phone. If you bought it by mistake, see the refund question below.

Install PokerSharp, make sure you’re signed in to the same Google Play or App Store account you bought Pro with, then open Settings → Manage purchase and use Restore purchases. Your entitlement comes back immediately: no account or password needed, because the store remembers the purchase.

Refunds are handled by the platform that billed you, Google Play or Apple, under their refund policies, and are usually requested from your order history there. If you’re stuck or the store turned you down for something that’s clearly our bug, email support@ycwdesign.com and we’ll help you navigate it.

The Pro entitlement follows your store account, so restoring on a second device signed in to the same account works. Your training data is separate from Pro and does not ride along with it. To get your hand history onto a second device, turn on Cloud Backup under Settings → Data on both phones and sign in to the same Google account, or export a backup file from one and restore it on the other.

One hidden folder that PokerSharp creates for itself in your Google Drive, and nothing else. The app requests a single Google permission (drive.appdata) that grants access only to that folder. It cannot see, list, read, change or delete any other file in your Drive: no documents, no photos, nothing. Other apps can’t read PokerSharp’s folder either, and the folder doesn’t appear in the normal Drive view. What goes in it is your hand history and your gameplay, display and sound settings. Chips, daily-bonus state and your Pro entitlement are deliberately left out. You can pull the plug at any time with Disconnect, wipe the cloud copy with Delete Backup, or revoke the app entirely from your Google account permissions.

On your device. Hand history, stats, and settings are stored locally, there is no PokerSharp account, and we run no server that holds your hand history. The one way your records leave your phone is if you turn on Cloud Backup (Settings → Data), and even then they go to a hidden, app-private folder in your own Google Drive, never to us. It is off until you connect it. Separately, the app sends us anonymous play stats (which modes you use, how long decisions take) under a random install ID with nothing personal in it; turn that off any time in Settings → Privacy → Share anonymous play stats. If you ask the coach a question, that question and a summary of that one hand are sent to be answered; see Ask the Coach below. The full picture is in our Privacy Policy.

You control all of it: Each of those permanently removes locally stored data. If you never turned on Cloud Backup there is no remote copy to delete, because none was ever created. If you did, delete it yourself with Settings → Data → Delete Backup, or from your Google account at myaccount.google.com/permissions. We have no access to your Drive and could not delete it for you even on request.

Yes, in two ways. Pick whichever you prefer: Restoring merges rather than replaces, so importing the same backup twice is harmless. If your device-level backup (Google One or iCloud full-device backup) included PokerSharp’s data, restoring that brings it across too.

A chat with the PokerSharp coach about a hand you just played. After you answer a hand you’ll see an ASK THE COACH button under the result in Train, Custom Play and the flop drill, on a finished Live hand’s summary, and on a past hand opened from Hand History. Hand History also has one for your overall stats. Tap it and the coach already knows your cards, the spot, what you picked and what the solver preferred, so you can ask things like why a call was fine or what the villain’s range looks like. Follow-up questions work in the same conversation. It is only offered after a decision, never in the middle of a hand, and it answers poker and app questions only.

Free players get 3 questions a day, and a follow-up counts as a question. The count resets at midnight UTC, and the app shows your next free question as a time in your own local clock. PokerSharp Pro has unlimited questions. If you’re out for the day the app tells you when the next one is available.

When you send a question, the app sends your question, a short summary of that hand (or of your stats) and the earlier turns of the chat. They go to our server and on to Anthropic, which writes the reply. Anthropic does not train its models on this by default, and no name, email or account is attached because the app has none. Please don’t type personal details into a question. Unless you turn it off, we keep questions and answers for 90 days, under a hashed install ID, to check and improve the answers. To stop that, switch off Settings → Privacy → Share anonymous play stats: logging stops and what was already logged is deleted. The coach still works with it off, and follow-ups within 24 hours still know the conversation, then it’s gone. If you report an answer, that one is kept for 30 days so we can review it. The details are in our Privacy Policy.

Ask the Coach is Android only for now, and it needs the version of PokerSharp installed from Google Play, and a copy installed some other way may be refused. It also needs an internet connection, unlike the drills. If you’re on the Google Play version and still can’t see it, make sure the app is up to date. Otherwise shake the device and send us a report.

Three ways, all built into the app: Reports are sent only when you tap send, are used solely for fixing the issue, and are deleted after it’s resolved. See our Privacy Policy.

Yes. Settings → Gameplay has an Animations control with Off / Normal / Fast / Faster. “Off” skips dealing and chip animations entirely for the fastest possible drilling. The app also respects your device’s reduce-motion accessibility setting.

Each hand costs a few chips, so a long session can use up a bonus. Check the chip counter (top-left on game screens). If the red dot is lit, another grant is available: the daily bonus or a bonus rewarded ad. If something genuinely looks wrong with your balance, shake the device and send us a report so we can see the state.

Ads need an internet connection, and occasionally the ad network has no fill for your region. The app is built to fail open: if an ad can’t load within a few seconds, you’re granted the chips anyway rather than being stuck on a spinner. If it happens constantly on a working connection, send us a bug report.

Shake the device to send an in-app report (best, because the screenshot and context ride along), or email support@ycwdesign.com with your device model, Android/iOS version, and what you were doing when it broke. We read everything.