Frequently Asked Questions

Poker Shark is for anyone serious about improving — whether you're warming up before a session, cooling down after one, or putting in reps between games. It's especially powerful for intermediate players who already know the basics but want to sharpen their edge.

Every hand you play feeds into a full analytics stack built on your data: VPIP, PFR, aggression by street, profit tracking, and leak detection. The longer you use it, the more it shows you about your own game.

Our bots are white-box models trained on over 33 million live poker hands. White box means the model's logic is transparent and explainable — we can tell you why a bot made a decision, not just what it did.

This is fundamentally different from products that feed hand histories into a pre-trained LLM and call it AI poker. Those systems black-box their reasoning and hallucinate tendencies. Our tendencies are measured from real player data and validated against it — every VPIP, PFR, and sizing pattern maps back to actual hands.

Our bots play like real opponents — they have leaks, tendencies, and patterns you can learn to exploit. If you can beat them consistently, you're building a genuine exploitative skillset that transfers directly to live and online play.

On top of that, the app tracks your lost profits on every hand, so you know exactly where your game is leaking. And with Takeover mode, you can rewind any decision and try a completely different line — you'll find creative plays you never would have considered at the table.

Build them. Our Build a Villain feature lets you create custom opponent profiles from scratch. Then refine them by uploading your own hand histories through our parse tool — we accept both online and shorthand formats.

The more hands you feed it, the closer the bot plays to the person you're studying. You can practice against your Tuesday night regulars before you ever sit down.