Set up bet presets
Make one-click bet sizes in big blinds, as a share of the pot or geometric, learn what each one bets, and have PokerLens type them into the bet box.
Bet presets are your own sizing buttons. When it is your turn to bet or raise, PokerLens draws a row of them just above the poker client's bet slider, and one click puts that exact amount in the client's bet box.
Open the bet presets settings
Click Settings on the rail, choose Overlays, and find the Bet presets panel. Make sure Show bet presets when the action is on you is switched on.
Pick a street
The panel has five tabs: All, Preflop, Flop, Turn and River.
- Presets on All are used on every street.
- A street that has presets of its own uses only those, not All's. A street with none says Nothing is set for this street, so it uses All's.
So you might put 2.5BB and 3BB on Preflop for your opens, and 33%, 75% and 2e on All for everything after the flop.
Type a preset and add it
Type the size in the Add a preset box and press Add or Enter. There are three ways to write one:
| Write | Means | With nothing to call | Facing a bet |
|---|---|---|---|
2.5BB |
Big blinds | Bet 2.5 big blinds | Raise to 2.5 big blinds in total |
75% |
Share of the pot | Bet 75% of the pot | Call, then add 75% of the pot after your call (the way the client's pot button works) |
2e |
Geometric, over 2 bets | Bet the share of the pot that, bet again on the next street and called both times, gets the effective stack in | The same share of the pot after your call, on top of the call |
A few things worth knowing:
- Upper and lower case both work (
2.5bb,2E), and you can use a decimal point or a decimal comma, up to two places. - Geometric presets are a whole number of bets, from
1eto9e.3espreads the stack over three bets, which is handy on the flop with three streets to come. - If what you typed isn't a preset, the panel tells you straight away: Not a preset. Write it as 2.5BB, 75% or 2e.
- The same preset can't be added twice to one tab.
Each preset appears as a pill on its tab. Click the cross on a pill to remove it. Changes are saved as you make them.
Use them at the table
When the site tells PokerLens the action is on you and you can bet or raise, the row of buttons appears just above the client's own sizing buttons. Each button shows the preset and, under it, the amount it makes in big blinds.
Click one and PokerLens fills in the client's bet box with that amount. It never bets for you: check the amount, then press the client's own Bet or Raise button.
The amount is rounded down to the smallest chip, the same way the clients' own buttons round, and is never less than the smallest bet or raise the site allows or more than all in.
Keep a row to four buttons or fewer. On narrow tables a longer row can run into the client's own controls.
Which sites support bet presets
PokerLens types the amount into the client's bet box itself, without moving your mouse, so the buttons only appear where it can do that:
- WPN cash tables: supported.
- ClubWPT Gold cash tables: supported.
- ClubWPT Gold tournaments: not yet supported.
- CoinPoker: not supported. Its client doesn't allow another program to fill in the bet box without taking over your mouse, so no buttons are drawn there.
WPN tournaments haven't been fully tested yet.
If it doesn't work
- No buttons at all: check that the street has presets (or that All does). With no presets, nothing is drawn.
- Buttons don't appear on one site: see the list of sites above.
- Buttons appear in the wrong place: drag them. See Place the overlays on the felt.
- The buttons are gone everywhere: overlays aren't drawn once your license or trial has ended.