Range Wizard is a Holdem Manager 3 app (PokerTracker support coming soon) that combines players with similar characteristics so you can analyze hand ranges and tendencies of various types of players. You define the type of player and which player tendencies you wish to study.

You can compare two different player types side by side to see how they differ. You can also compare your own tendencies against any player type.

With Range Wizard you can answer questions such as:

• How do winning players play differently than losing players?
• What hand range does a loose aggressive player three bet you from the big blind?
• How do my hand ranges and stats compare to winning players?
• How do I study an opponent when I have only played a few hands against him?

Range Wizard is the ultimate study tool to help dissect you opponents. You can easily find out what they are doing differently from you. [h3]How does it work?[/h3] Select the player stats you are interested in studying. You can select from over 2000 available player stats.


[Stat Group Selector]

Define filters that select the type of player you wish to study. You can define up to two different player types for side by side comparisons.


[Define player filter]

Range Wizard will scan your Holdem Manager 3 database to select the players with the most hands that match your player filter criteria.


[Filtered players]

Range Wizard will combine the matching players as if they were a single player and query the database for the tendencies you selected.

Range Wizard the hand range of various stats based on the hole cards that were shown down.


[Estimated hand ranges]

Range Wizard combines the stats you selected for all players and displays a report that makes it easy to study and compare player tendencies. Stats that show large differences are highlighted.


[Stats report]

You can drill down to see how individual stats vary within filtered players.


[Stat details]

Range Wizard provides several built in reports, stat groups, and view filters that make it easy to start analyzing and comparing different types of players.

In this quick start, we will:

• Start Range Wizard app
• Open and run a report
• Provide a quick introduction to the result views

[h2]Start Range Wizard App[/h2] To start Range Wizard, select Enable Range Wizard on the HM3 Apps menu.

[Enable Range Wizard]

This will display the Range Wizard home screen.


[Home screen] [h2]Open and Run a Report[/h2] The home screen displays links to popular reports. Click on “Hero Vs Winners” to run the report. [h2]Players View[/h2] Range Wizard will begin searching the HM3 database for players that match the view filters, starting with the players with the most hands. It displays three tabs that are updated as each new matching player is found.

The Players tab shows players that match each view filter.


[Players view]

Click on the Hole Cards tab to see the Hole Cards view.


[Hole cards view]

The Hole Cards view displays estimated hand ranges for each view. It is important to note that hand ranges are based on hole cards that were shown down.

Select the Stats tab to view the Stats view.


[Stats view]

The left side of the view lists all of the stat groups that are included in the report. The right side shows the stats in the selected stat group.

You can click on the plus icon at the left of each stat group to drill down and see more details.


[Stat details]

The stat details gives you an idea of how much each stat varies among the players.

Next Tutorial: Tutorial 2: Hole Cards View

Click on the Hole Cards tab to display the Hole Cards view.


[Hole cards view] [h2]View Headers[/h2] The view headers show general information about each view, including

• The name of the view
• The stat filter
• The currently selected stat and its value
• The number of shown down hole cards

[Left view header]


[Right view header]

We will describe the “Show difference” check box in a later section. [h2]Estimated Hand Ranges[/h2] The hands grid provides estimated hand ranges for the selected action.


[Estimated hand range]

By default, a weighted hand range is displayed. A 100% hand means that hand is always in the hand range. A 75% hand means the hand is played 75% of the time. Then hands grid can optionally show other values, which is described later.

Estimated hand ranges are based only on hands that reached show down, since for opponents that is all the information we have. [h2]Filters[/h2] Filters determine what hand range is displayed.


[Hole card filters]

The action filter sets the stat used to estimate the hand range. The actions combo box lists popular or recent actions.


[Action filters]

You can select from many stats by clicking on the select stats button.


[Select actions]

The positions filter sets the preflop positions included in the hand range. By default, all positions are included.


[Position filters]

Click on the actions filter, select the PFR stat, and click the Apply button. Range Wizard will recalculate the hand range based on PFR.


[Estimated hand ranges for PFR] [h2]Display Options[/h2] The “Show” combo box provides other display options.


[Display options]

Available options include

• Weighted hand range – Each hand is weighted by the probability of it being played
• Hand range – The hand range where each hand is either always or never played
• Actual hand counts – The number of times each hand was shown
• Unbiased hand counts – The number of times each hand was shown adjusted for the probability of each hand being dealt.
• Adjusted hand counts – A smoothed version of the unbiased hand counts where each hand count is averaged with adjacent hands.

Since there are 12 combinations of each unsuited hand, 6 combinations of each pair, and 4 combinations of each suited hand, the actual hand counts are biased toward unsuited hands and pairs. The unbiased hand counts adjust for this and estimated hand ranges are based on unbiased hand counts.

Try playing with the show option. Here is an example of the unbiased hand count option.


[Unbiased hand counts] [h2]Copy Hand Range to Clipboard[/h2] Between the view head and the hole cards grid is a text representation of the hand range in Flopzilla format.


[Hand range text]

Clicking the button to the right will copy the hand range text to the clipboard. The hand range can then be pasted into any program that accepts Flopzilla formatted hand ranges. [h2]Show Differences[/h2] The “Show differences” check box provides a visual representation of the differences between the two views.


[Show differences]

Click on the check box to view the differences.


[Hand range differences]

Green hands are player more often in this view than the other view. Red hands are played less often than the other view.

Next tutorial: Tutorial 3: Stats View

The Stats view displays all of the stat groups that are included in the report for each view.


[Stats view]

On the left side of the view is a list of all stat groups included in the report. On the right side are the stat values for the selected stat group.

Stat values are grouped by position when possible. Blank values means that stat value is not available.

Values that have large differences between the two views are highlighted in bold. [h2]Tool Tip Descriptions[/h2] Hovering you mouse cursor over a stat header will show a tool tip with a description of the stat.


[Stat header tool tip]

Hovering over a stat value will show the number of hands where that stat had the opportunity to occur.


[Stat tool tip] [h2]Stat Details[/h2] Clicking on the “+” icon in the left view will expand the stat group to show the stats included in the group.


[Expanded stat group]

Selecting an individual stat will show more details about the stat.


[Stat details]

The stat details show a value range for each position.


[Stat position details]

The stat position details display three values when the view includes more than one player.

• Average – The average value of all players in the view
• Max – The average of all players whose value is greater than the average value
• Min – The average of all players whose value is less than the average value

The average value is the value displayed in the stats grid. The min and max values provide an indication of how much the stat values vary between the players.

Next tutorial:  Tutorial 4: Editing View Filters