Poker software CD is popularly becoming a gift these days.  Friends gift it to their friends that are poker fans that love to play poker.  The content of the poker software CD can be an instructional material or special software like tracker, robots or probability calculators.

Some of the most popular poker software CD that is being gifted:-

• Informational poker software CD that has instructional materials on how to play a poker variant.  It usually consists of poker rules, poker card ranking details and a bit of basic strategy information about playable hands.
• Strategy poker software CD is available in the market as video tutorial CDs that have screen shots of real time online poker games with comments and related tips on how the game should be played or they can be just readable information about strategy of a poker variant.  Normally, the poker software CD is sold as that which gives details about a particular strategy.  Specialized poker software CD has strategy material relating to a poker variant of sub types of betting like information on how to approach a poker variant play based on limit, no limit or pot limit games.
• Tracker poker software CD is special programs that are used to read out and analyze the hand histories of particular players.  normally most sites give the hand history on request to paid members when the game number and user name is quoted; however, such facilities is not available for free roll players, such players can benefit from purchasing such tracker poker software CD to just read out the hands that they play in free roll games.
• Robots also are sold in poker software CD and this kind of software can be best used for practice.  Using this particular software in real time cash money games is not ethical and is recognized as a cheating practice.  So, never attempt to employ robots to play against opponents.

Poker fans and those that play poker for a major part of their time either to make money or for fun can benefit to make a poker library of such poker software CD and repeated use of such software can improve the playing skill to a major extent.  It should also be noted that every play should be based on algorithmic approach and eventually with time one should be able to play without the help of such software.  They should not be dependent on the software for winning, individuality is a must.