Alternatives / DTO Poker
Looking for a DTO Poker alternative
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The short answer
Move if you specifically wanted short-stack reps and are getting flops instead. Stay if you want a broad, mobile-first MTT trainer, which is what it is very good at being.
- DTO Poker
- $9.99/mo+
- Push Fold Trainer
- Free · $15/mo
Disclosure: Push Fold Trainer is our own product, so treat the comparison accordingly. The prices and capabilities below are the same ones on our trainer roundup, where DTO Poker is reviewed alongside everything else - including the reasons to pick it over us.
DTO is a very good trainer with the best mobile app on this list, and it is MTT-native rather than a cash tool with tournaments bolted on. The reason people look for an alternative is usually a mismatch of expectations rather than a fault: they came for short-stack drilling and found a broad GTO trainer.
What DTO Poker is good at
Aimed squarely at tournament players and genuinely very good at what it does: it serves you spots and scores your answers, with an Explorer alongside for looking things up, and the mobile app gives you instant review between sessions - the best phone experience on this list. It sits fifth for one reason only, and it is not quality. It is not a push/fold trainer. Most of the spots it serves are standard opens carried through a postflop tree, so short-stack shove-or-fold decisions are a small corner of what you drill. Its tree is also narrower than GTO Wizard's, so it is not the pick for breadth either. And like everything else here except us, it trains you against a GTO opponent - there is no exploit work.
- Drilling-first design, which is the habit that actually moves a win rate
- The best mobile app here, with instant review between sessions
- MTT-native rather than a cash tool with tournaments bolted on
- Reasonable entry price for how much you can drill
Why players go looking
Most of what it serves you is postflop
The typical DTO spot is a standard open carried into a flop in a three-bet pot. That is genuinely useful drilling. It is not shove-or-fold practice, and if the decisions costing you money happen below 20bb before the flop, most of your reps are going somewhere else.
ICM needs the $29.99/mo tier
The entry plan is around $9.99/mo and is reasonable value for how much you can drill. ICM sits at about $29.99/mo. As with everything else here, the number worth comparing is the price of the tier that contains the feature, not the price of the door.
GTO only, with no opponent profiling
No exploit work in either half - no way to solve against a specific tendency, and no way to be drilled against one. For a short-stack player facing the same handful of regs every session, that is the adjustment that is missing.
It sits between two things rather than being best at either
DTO is not the push/fold specialist, and it is not the breadth leader either - its tree is narrower than the one GTO Wizard covers. That is a perfectly reasonable place for a product to sit, and it is also why people arrive on a page like this one: come wanting short-stack depth and you find a broad trainer, come wanting breadth and there is more of it elsewhere.
How the two compare
| Capability | DTO Poker | Push Fold Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $9.99/mo+ | Free · $15/mo |
| Drills you | Drilling-first | Scored, every spot |
| Solved ranges | Explorer included | 4-30bb, 6 & 9-max |
| ICM | $29.99/mo tier | Included |
| Exploits | GTO only | Chip-EV + ICM, both |
| Short-stack focus | Broader trainer | Only thing it does |
Where we differ from every tool on that list, DTO Poker included, is opponent modelling: the exploit ranges here are solved as best responses across a seven-tier scale of opponent looseness, chip-EV and ICM-aware both, and the practice loop will drill you on them rather than only showing them to you.
What you would give up
The case for moving is above. This is the other half of it - the things DTO Poker does that we do not, which are worth knowing before you cancel anything rather than after:
Moving here costs you this
- DTO has the best mobile app on the roundup. Our native app is Android only - the web app runs on any phone, but if you drill on an iPhone between sessions, that is a genuine downgrade rather than a technicality.
- You lose postflop drilling entirely. If any of your leaks live after the flop, a preflop tool does not touch them.
- DTO is MTT-native across the whole tree and reasonable value for how much you can drill. Trading that for a preflop specialist only makes sense if preflop is where your money is going.
When you should stay with DTO Poker
Not every reason to look is a reason to move. The cases where DTO Poker is still the right answer:
Stay where you are if
- You want to drill the whole preflop-to-river tree on a phone. The mobile experience is the best here and the drilling-first design is the right habit.
- Your leaks are postflop. A push/fold tool will not touch them.
- You want breadth at a lower price than GTO Wizard and can accept a narrower tree in exchange.
If you do move
A page that argues someone into switching and then leaves them at the decision has done the easy half. Three steps that make the move cheap to test and cheap to reverse:
Work out where the money is actually going first
This is the real question on this page, and it is answerable rather than arguable. If the hands you lose most are sub-20bb preflop decisions, the reps you are spending on three-bet pot flops are not wasted but they are not aimed at the leak either. If it is the other way round, stay where you are.
Test it free before moving a subscription
Every chip-EV push/fold range here is free with no account, and the practice loop has a free allowance on top. That is enough to find out whether shove-or-fold reps move your accuracy before anything gets cancelled.
Keep drilling on a phone if that is the habit
The web app runs on any phone, and the habit matters more than the wrapper it comes in. But if a native iOS app is the reason DTO fits into your week, weigh that honestly - a habit that survives is worth more than a feature that goes unused.
DTO Poker alternatives: common questions
- Is DTO a push/fold trainer?
- Not really. It is a broad MTT trainer that includes short-stack spots. Most of what it serves is a standard open carried into a postflop tree, which is good drilling and is not shove-or-fold practice. That mismatch is the usual reason people go looking for something else.
- Does DTO include ICM?
- Not on the entry plan. ICM sits at about $29.99/mo against roughly $9.99/mo for the door. As with everything else on this list, the number worth comparing is the price of the tier that holds the feature.
- Does DTO have exploitative training?
- No. There is no opponent profiling in either half - no solving against a specific tendency, and no drilling against one. For a player facing the same regs every session, that is the adjustment that is missing.
- Which has the better mobile app?
- DTO, clearly. It is the best phone experience on the roundup. Our native app is Android only, so on iOS you would be using the web app - which works, but is not the same thing and we are not going to claim otherwise.
- Is this cheaper than DTO?
- At the door DTO is cheaper - about $9.99/mo against $15/mo for Pro here - and our free tier is the larger of the two. The comparison that matters is with ICM included, where DTO is about $29.99/mo and ICM is simply part of Pro here. Prices were last checked on the date shown at the top of this page.
The free tier covers every chip-EV push/fold range, 4bb to 30bb, 6-max and 9-max, plus the ICM, bubble factor and satellite calculators. No account needed to look at any of it.