SnapHand - Your HUD for live poker.
Website: https://snaphand.app/
AppStore
Pricing: Free (Live Tracker & first 100 saved hands) / $50/year (Unlimited saved hands)
Contacts: [email][email protected][/email]
Hello everyone!
I’ve been playing poker professionally for over 13 years (11 of those playing live). Over these years, I’ve tried so many different ways to quickly save hands and track players at the table. I started by logging things in Google Spreadsheets, then moved to Notion. But honestly, nothing was ever as fast or efficient as I needed it to be during a live session.
So, at the end of last year, I finally decided to build an app for myself to track opponents and log hands. I’ve been using it for the last 4 months, and it has genuinely improved my decision-making. Personally, I estimate that using it adds about $1k/month in EV to my win rate.
Since it helped me so much, I decided to make it public and release it for everyone.
What it does:
- Even just tracking the first ~20 hands (VPIP/PFR) helps me stay focused on what’s happening at the table.
- If I don’t know a player, those first 20 hands already give me a useful baseline for who I’m playing against.
- Save a hand on a specific player in ~15 seconds.
- Review those hands later to analyze lines and spot leaks (for example, lines where someone is heavily under-bluffing).
Honestly, I don't see any reason not to use this at the table. I haven't found anything else quite like it out there.
If you find it useful, awesome. If it doesn’t, tell me what’s bad or what’s confusing.
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been thinking about how to do this well for some time
i think you're most of the way there but there's no world where anyone could be diligently entering all hand information like that where it isn't obvious to the table
anyone using this at the table would be absolutely ridiculed and hated - can't imagine the floor would allow it if someone complained either
needs to be way faster to enter info discreetly than this workflow
been thinking about how to do this well for some timei think you're most of the way there but there's no world where anyone could be diligently entering all hand information like that where it isn't obvious to the tableanyone using this at the table would be absolutely ridiculed and hated - can't imagine the floor would allow it if someone complained eitherneeds to be way faste
Good points, and I actually agree with you. If you are sitting there blatantly logging every single action for the whole table to see, people will definitely give you weird looks or complain. That said, most regs already use privacy screens on their phones anyway.
But the reality is that a lot of players are already recording hands at the table regardless - typing them out in their notes app, sending them to Discord groups, etc. My goal was just to take that existing habit and make it as efficient as possible.
To be honest, after trying a bunch of different ways over the years, I haven't found a faster method to save hands than this workflow. But I am totally open to improving it. If you have any specific ideas on how to make the process even faster or more discreet, please share them! I'm always looking for ways to make the UI better.
yeah i think you've solved most of it having everything ready to go - and honestly if i had figured out how to get it out easier i'd have built something like this myself
i thought about an ocr reader of sorts from meta glasses could work but then you're also seeing a lot of places ban them now so even then it's difficult if that's even feasible
i thought about an ocr reader of sorts from meta glasses could work but then you're also seeing a lot of places ban them now so even then it's difficult if that's even feasible
Yeah, using Meta glasses or any kind of OCR would definitely get you banned from pretty much every poker room out there. It's strictly illegal everywhere.
