Poker Tracker
I know Van had been using this for a while now, and I wanted to see if it was wort it. I had some problems with the UB databas when I tried it before, so I wasn't sure that I would want to use it still.
I am going to say that #1 I HIGHLY recommend this item if you are bonusing. There are a few people that I read as tight agressive, but when the total numbers (since I saved all my sessions from goldin riviera), were put together, the guy was a losing player.
So I bought my key last night. If I can get it before I leave for Choctaw today I am going to do a little mineing for information. That's what's really amazing to me, if you leave the screen open, and you let PT do what it's supposed to, while you are at work? Your tracker is seeing 1500+ hands in that 8 hour period, giving you TONS of information about your players.
The other great thing is that it allows you to see where your leaks are. Van did a post on this about how much data you can get from this thing...I now agree. You can pull up specific hands...and if you can't remember them? Poker Tracker will actually give you a graphic (which isn't slick, but is highly functional) replay of the hand.
I'm not going to lie though...it takes about 30 minutes to set it up, and you will definately need help doing it...unless you are a computer programmer, or the smartest guy at the table (read: I think Don and Tom might be able to figure it out).
Also, if you are a tournament player...I don't think it can "rate" players for you, that's right, it rates players to show you what general style that they play. It can even rate you, which they recommend it not doing (simply becausae you see ALL of your hands, where you don't see all of theirs). Currently my PT rating is a SLA/A (slightly loose agressive preflop/agressive postflop).
It also keeps my session stats by game, so that I can see how I am playing at each level and style.
Currently my stats are such.
12 sessions (this was 2 weeks ago, I had firepay problems and couldn't get it fixed).
4 different levels from .25-.50 to 1-2.
At .25-.50 Limit my win percentage is 50%
At .50-1NL my win percentage is an astounding 0%
etc, etc.
Currently my win rate (barring bonuses) is exactly what I thought it was. Slightly profitable (1.02 per hour). Since I'm not really multitabling I saw 757 total hands in a total of 632 live minutes, with a multitable ration of 1.19:1.
Anyway, there are a TON of different items you can use on this thing. If you are an online player and have never used it...I recommend looking into it. It's $55.00, but if you are bonusing, wouldn't you rather know everything you could know about every player out there. Including their entire hand history against you? Not even Brunson's got that good a memory. |
