Poker Tracking Software

There's been quite a large response to my explanation of the poker tracker HUD so I've decided to do a review of different poker tracking software applications. So, keep coming back to the blog for reviews over the next few weeks. I will be reviewing the following:

• Poker Dominator
• Poker Edge
  
• Shark Mate
  

Watch this space, you'll get an honest review! I've linked to some vids on youtube in the meanwhile.

Poker Tracker - Hud Explanation

Right, here's a brief explanation of the poker tracker HUD. Once you've configured it to auto-import your hand histories and your opponents a HUD appears on the table showing you stats for each player, these include:

Player Name,Player Icon,Total Hands,Voluntarily Put $ in the Pot,
Pre-flop Raise,Total Aggression Factor

I won't go into detail of what each one is right now but in essence it tells you how tight or lose a player is and how aggressive they are when they bet etc. This really does give you an advantage e.g. If you've holding A-10 and the flop comes 10-9-K, you've bet and a re-raise from another player comes in. You can check that players stats on the HUD. If they're super tight then they prob have you beat. If they play loose then go ahead and call it! Don't get me wrong it should never take away playing with your instincts but I think it gives you a 5% - 10% edge on people who don't have it. It could save / win you a lot of money if you use it correctly!

Get as much information as you can!

One of the key aspects of improving at poker is making as much information available to yourself as possible. I'm not entirely sure what standard of poker player this blog is being picked up by yet so I apologise if you already know this but....
A weapon you need in your armoury is pokertracker. This is by no means an advertisement, I simply use it and find it a big weapon. It's such an eye opener to see which hole cards you generally lose money on or in which position you are giving away chips consistently. It's a quick install downloadable from the site. I use it with VC Poker which just requires a quick manual install (simply pointing pokertracker to the directory where the hand histories are stored). So if you don't have some sort of system like this then get one installed quickly and learn from your mistakes.

Ill be playing online at VC Poker again tonight if anyone fancies a game (redshades86)!