What sets Pokalab apart
Any spot, any line, any sizing, any texture
Pick any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway, pin the bet size at every step, and combine flop, turn and river textures, on top of room, stake, stack depth, player type, pot type (13 exclusive categories, from limped and iso pots to squeezes and cold 4-bets) and tournament phase, plus HUD-stat filters such as VPIP, PFR or 3-bet in Postflop. Every combination is computed from the hands on demand, not picked from a predefined list of scenarios.
A Leak Finder on your own hands
Import your hands and the Leak Finder shows where you lose: your winrate by stake and position next to the Top Regs', the winning regulars of the population, and your leaks in bb/100, seat by seat and situation by situation, the costliest first. Pro adds your stats against the Top Regs and your preflop play next to GTO. Your hands stay private and never join the population data.
Preflop GTO at your rake
Preflop, the population is compared with a GTO solution solved with the rake and cap of the room and stake you select, wherever the library has one. Rake changes preflop strategy, most of all at low stakes, so the reference changes with it.
A modern, intuitive interface
Clean screens, built for study. MDA Explorer lays the population out as a game tree, and you browse it the way you browse a solution in GTO Wizard: click an action and the next decision opens, with the population's frequencies, bet sizes and ranges, and the GTO strategy beside them (NLHE cash games), from the first preflop action to the river.
MDA and GTO in one app
Next to the MDA: the Leak Finder, more than 50 preflop GTO solutions, a trainer that deals hands from them, a hand replayer and free tools. Among the MDA tools compared below that come with their own database of hands, none shows all of this on its site: the ones with a postflop MDA describe neither a preflop solution library nor a trainer, and the one with both (Freebetrange) has a preflop-only MDA. Coming: postflop solutions, the Leak Finder's postflop, and the MDA Solver (exploitative solutions built from the population data).
A database that keeps growing
379M real hands played online, cash games and tournaments. More hands are being imported, with a target of 1 billion.
What it does
| Feature | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Mass Data Analysis (MDA) | Live | How the player population really plays any spot, measured on real hands: fold, call, bet and raise frequencies, bet sizes and ranges. Any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway, any sequence of bet sizes, any combination of flop, turn and river textures, by room, stake, stack depth and player type. Views: Explorer (the population's game tree, browsed node by node), Preflop (every matchup on one screen), Postflop (a spot split by bet size or board texture) and Players & Pools. Multiway pots are followed in Explorer. |
| GTO comparisons | Live | Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games is shown next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop. Preflop, the GTO solution follows the rake and cap of the room and stake you select; postflop, the reference is solved with NL200 rake. |
| Preflop solutions | Beta | More than 50 solved preflop trees. Cash games, each solved with its room's rake and cap: heads-up, 5-max, 6-max and 9-max, at 100 or 200 big blinds, with several open sizes. Tournaments: 8-handed with antes, from 10 to 50 big blinds. Frequencies and EV for every combo. |
| Trainer | Beta | Hands dealt from the solutions, every decision graded, with the GTO mix and the EV given up. |
| Hand replayer | Live | Replays hands decision by decision. |
| Free tools | Live | Poker Math, Variance Calculator, Preflop Charts. Free, no account needed. |
| Postflop solutions | Soon | Solved postflop trees, from the flop to the river. |
| Leak Finder | Live | Your own hands, imported privately (up to 100,000 on a free account, 1,000,000 with Pro), measured against the Top Regs, the winning regulars of the population, and against GTO. Database: your results by stake and position, with the Top Regs' winrate beside every row. Leak Rates: where you lose, in bb/100 against the Top Regs, seat by seat and situation by situation, the costliest first. Overall (Pro): your stats against the Top Regs at your stakes. Preflop (Pro): your preflop play in six scenarios, next to GTO. Postflop (from NL50, Beta): your postflop lines spot by spot, street by street, against the Top Regs or GTO. |
| MDA Solver | Soon | Exploitative solutions built from the MDA: the solver plays against how the population really plays each spot and finds the strategy that beats it. |
| PLO | Soon | Pot-limit Omaha in MDA. |
Data coverage
- 379M real hands played online, No-Limit Hold’em cash games and tournaments together.
- More hands are being imported, with a target of 1 billion.
- Cash game rooms: GGPoker, PokerStars, iPoker, WPN, 888poker.
- Cash stakes: NL2 to NL5k+.
- Tournament rooms: GGPoker, WPN, Chico.
- No Winamax hands.
- GTO comparisons cover NLHE cash games, preflop and postflop. Tournaments have no GTO comparison yet.
- Hands a user imports stay private to that account and are never added to the population data.
Pricing
A free account covers NL2 to NL10: MDA Postflop in its Limited mode, the preflop solutions of those stakes, the Trainer, the hand Replayer, and the Leak Finder's Database and Leak Rates on up to 100,000 of your own hands.
Pro opens the full MDA. It is sold by stake band, in euros, taxes included; the annual plan is one charge a year.
| Band | Cash games | Tournaments | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Stakes | up to NL50 | up to $9+1 buy-ins | €49.99 | €499.90 |
| Mid Stakes | up to NL200 | up to $45+5 buy-ins | €99.99 | €999.90 |
| High Stakes | NL500 and up | from $50+5 buy-ins | €129.99 | €1,299.90 |
Announced on the pricing page and not on sale yet: Starter and Elite.
Pokalab and the other MDA tools
| Product | What it is | Difference with Pokalab |
|---|---|---|
| SnapMDA Pokalab vs SnapMDA | Mass data analysis from 992 million hand histories by its own count (cash games, tournaments and PLO), with deep filters: any line, per-street bet sizes and size sequences, 76 board textures, HUD stats and multiway pots, read from a query bar and a report grid. Its GTO comparison is postflop only, from 500NL 100bb sims, with no multiway, tournament, PLO or ante spots; for preflop it points to GTO Wizard's free sims. | SnapMDA has more hands, more rooms and PLO. Pokalab compares preflop as well as postflop to GTO, and preflop the GTO follows the rake of the room and stake you select. Pokalab filters pot types in one click (13 categories; SnapMDA's documentation filters an iso pot by typing its line) and tournament phases (SnapMDA calls its tournament support experimental). It has its own library of more than 50 preflop GTO solutions with a trainer and a hand replayer, and lays the population out as a game tree browsed node by node. |
| MDA Demon Pokalab vs MDA Demon | Population data from real cash-game hands (173M+ hand histories by its homepage counter), pre-computed spots you browse straight to, with Regs and Fish, texture filters stacked across streets, and GTO benchmarks from self-play hands of its own sims, postflop. Its plans list GGPoker, PokerStars, WPN, CoinPoker, iPoker and 888. | Pokalab is far more flexible: MDA Demon serves pre-computed spots, Pokalab computes any line on demand, heads-up or multiway, with a bet-size sequence and textures on every street (MDA Demon's site does not mention multiway pots or bet-size sequences). Pokalab adds tournaments, preflop GTO at the rake of your room and stake, and its own preflop solutions with a trainer and a hand replayer. |
| Freebetrange | Preflop study tools: a preflop MDA (the preflop decision tree of each opponent type, 300M+ hands by its own count, filtered by room group, stake band, table size and ante), a GTO preflop library, a trainer and hand import. | Freebetrange's MDA stops at preflop. Pokalab's runs from preflop to the river, with bet sizes, board textures and multiway pots, next to GTO. |
| GTO Wizard Pokalab vs GTO Wizard | A GTO study app built on solver output: a library of solved spots, practice against the solver, analysis of your own hand histories against the solution, custom solving and manual nodelocking. Its site and help center describe no data measured on real players. | Pokalab is built on how real players play each spot, shown next to GTO. Pokalab's own solution library is preflop for now, with postflop solutions coming; postflop GTO already appears inside the MDA as the comparison (NLHE cash). |
| Hand2Note Pokalab vs Hand2Note | A desktop poker tracker and HUD (Windows and macOS) that reads the hands in your own database: a dynamic HUD, reports, a hand replayer, and player pools split into categories to research their tendencies. About 18 sites and apps, Hold'em and Omaha. | Hand2Note studies the hands you collect yourself; Pokalab comes with its own population of real hands, so a spot is studied without building a database, next to GTO, with preflop solutions and a trainer. Hand2Note leads on the HUD at the tables. |
| MassBuster Pro Pokalab vs MassBuster | A Windows desktop MDA tool that runs on the cash-game hands you import (100M+ hands per database, depending on RAM): searches by line, sizing, stack depth, regs vs fish, texture and runout, a solver comparison, a replayer, and hands and game trees exported to PioSolver in one click. | MassBuster needs your own database of the pool's hands; Pokalab comes with its population, cash games and tournaments, in the browser, and adds preflop GTO solutions and a trainer. MassBuster leads on the PioSolver workflow. |
| DriveHUD Pokalab vs DriveHUD | A desktop poker tracker and HUD with MDA reports on the player pool (26 report tabs for No-Limit cash, 8 player types, against a GTO baseline), a built-in solver and trainer with nodelocking, leaks priced in bb/100, a replayer and AI hand review. Hold'em and PLO; cash, MTT and Sit & Go. | DriveHUD is a tracker: its reports read the hands in your database. Pokalab comes with its own population of real hands, lets you walk any line from preflop to the river, multiway included, and shows the GTO strategy at each node. DriveHUD leads on the all-in-one desktop: HUD, solver, trainer and PLO. |
Read on each product’s own website on October 25, 2026. Products change; their sites are the reference. Module by module: the best poker MDA tools compared.
Questions
What is Pokalab?
Pokalab is a poker study app built on mass data analysis (MDA): how the player population really plays any spot, measured on 379M real hands played online and shown next to GTO, with more than 50 preflop GTO solutions, a Leak Finder on your own hands, a trainer, a hand replayer and free tools.
What is mass data analysis (MDA) in poker?
Measuring how the whole player population actually plays a spot, on a large sample of real hands, instead of assuming everyone plays GTO. Pokalab shows each spot's population frequencies, bet sizes and ranges next to the GTO strategy, so you see where the pool deviates.
Which poker sites and stakes does Pokalab's data cover?
379M real hands played online, NLHE cash games and tournaments together. Cash games: GGPoker, PokerStars, iPoker, WPN, 888poker. Tournaments: GGPoker, WPN, Chico. Cash stakes: NL2 to NL5k+. There are no Winamax hands. Pro is sold by stake band: up to NL50, up to NL200, NL500 and up.
How much does Pokalab cost?
There is a free account. Pro (the full MDA) costs €49.99 a month (up to NL50), €99.99 a month (up to NL200), €129.99 a month (NL500 and up), taxes included; the annual plan costs 10 months.
Does Pokalab include GTO?
Yes. Every MDA spot of NLHE cash games is shown next to its GTO strategy, preflop and postflop, and Pokalab includes more than 50 solved preflop trees with a trainer. Postflop solutions are coming. Tournaments have no GTO comparison yet.
Which poker MDA tool should I use?
It depends on whether you have a database. Without one, a web tool that comes with the population: Pokalab (NLHE cash games and tournaments, the population's game tree from preflop to the river with GTO beside it, and a Leak Finder on your own hands), SnapMDA (the most hands, PLO), MDA Demon (cash games, lower price). With your own database: a tracker such as Hand2Note or DriveHUD, or MassBuster Pro, which study the hands you import.
Do I need my own hand database to use Pokalab?
No. Pokalab comes with 379M real hands played online. The hands you import go to the Leak Finder and stay private to your account.
Does Pokalab have a leak finder?
Yes. Import your hands (up to 100,000 free, 1,000,000 with Pro) and the Leak Finder shows where you lose: your winrate by stake and position next to the Top Regs', the winning regulars of the population, and your leaks in bb/100, seat by seat and situation by situation. Pro adds your stats against the Top Regs and your preflop play next to GTO.
How does Pokalab compare with SnapMDA, MDA Demon and GTO Wizard?
Pokalab pairs a full MDA (any line from preflop to the river, heads-up or multiway, next to GTO preflop and postflop) with its own more than 50 preflop GTO solutions, a trainer and a hand replayer; preflop, its GTO follows the rake of the room and stake you select. SnapMDA states more hands (992 million by its own count) and covers PLO, but compares only postflop spots to GTO and points to GTO Wizard for preflop solutions. MDA Demon serves pre-computed spots where Pokalab computes any line on demand. MDA Demon describes cash games only; Pokalab covers tournaments too. GTO Wizard's site describes no data measured on real players.
Does Pokalab cover multiway pots?
Yes. Explorer follows any line heads-up or multiway, with the bet size pinned at every step and any combination of flop, turn and river textures.
Who builds it
Built by a French former online pro (NL200–NL2k) turned developer. Contact: contact@pokalab.com, or the Discord. See the team page. The company details are in the Terms of Service.