love and casino war poker blog: pokertracker, and the great pokertracker giveaway

pokertracker, and the great pokertracker giveaway

Although it's regularly lauded by most serious online players, I think many people who play online are unaware of PokerTracker.

Not being a very serious online player myself, I only decided to try it out a few weeks ago, but I can honestly say if you intend to be a profitable online poker player, you would be completely insane not to use PokerTracker.

What is it? Well first of all you absolutely must go to the website and download an evaluation for yourself to see it in action. It's difficult to comprehend how packed with features, and all the bells and whistles you could ever imagine in a poker-play analysis package it is, without running it yourself. The free evaluation is fully functional and allows you to load up to 1,000 hands.

PokerTracker capitalizes on one of the greatest things about playing poker online -- you can load hand histories for every single hand you've played, and analyze them on a game-by-game basis.

Major online poker sites will e-mail you your hand histories, usually 100 at a time. While you're playing, you need to request these from the site so you can get all your hand histories. PokerTracker even makes this easier, by featuring an auto-request feature that will ping the site every X minutes while you play and request the hands for you. This makes keeping track of hands MUCH easier.

When I first read the PokerTracker site, it was so humbly written and matter-of-fact that I didn't really comprehend all the features the software offered. Here are what I think are the most important features:

Meticulously, ridiculously detailed stats on every aspect of play of not only you, but every opponent you've ever faced -- hands played, % of time called a single bet or raise before the flop, % of times raised pre-flop, % of times won at showdown, % of times tried to steal the blinds, % of times folded to an apparent steal attempt, BB won per 100 hands, rake paid, etc. No stat left unturned.

Data sliced by just about every dimension you can think of -- by stakes, by hand, by position, by final hand, by session, by month, by date, by site, etc.

Ability to create a "table diagram" with the current players you're playing against (assuming you have past data on them) which displays their "vital stats" -- VERY useful when playing on a single table. This is an amazing feature, which I don't think all PT users use. It's actually pretty easy to fold TT before the flop when you're facing a raise against an opponent who has ONLY ever raised pre-flop in the last 2,000 hands with AA and KK.

Ability to print, and export to excel, just about every screen in the app.

Ability to "flag" certain players with icons (I use the "fish" and "rock" icon gratuitously).

New: ability to export specific player stats directly into player notes in your poker client! You don't need to even set up the player table in PT, you can view stats directly in the PP client. A HUGE feature.

my dream table

The guy who maintains PP is very responsive to e-mails, and is constantly improving the product (there have been 5 updates already, just since the beginning of the year).

I'm not an online grinder, but PokerTracker has already shown me a massive hole in my game -- I'm way too aggressive with blind-stealing when I'm one off the button. Other than the small and big blinds, it's the only position I've lost money from, almost exclusively from going heads-up with one of the blinds when I've tried to steal and they've had a legitimate hand. Thank you PokerTracker.

After you import 1,000 hands, the registration fee for PokerTracker is $55.00. If you balk at this price, you're kidding yourself. If you are serious about playing profitable online poker, there's no better software out there to analyze your play. You'll make $55.00 in incremental bets earned if you discover even one small shortcoming in your play. I found that just my intention to import hands into PokerTracker caused me to play better -- I knew I'd be looking at my play later, and that made me a lot more conscious of how I was playing.

If this review sounds gushing and over-the-top, that's because it is. As someone in the software industry, I did not expect to find such a gem of a piece of software out there for online poker players. Everything about PokerTracker screams of being written by someone who understands poker, understands online poker, and understands what it takes to be a profitable player. It's a very well-written, meticulously detailed piece of software that every serious, or even semi-serious, online player needs in their arsenal. If you're not using PokerTracker, you either don't care about making money playing poker online, or you haven't tried it out yet.

I've also found that PokerTracker has made me a better live game player. There's absolutely no way to break down live game stats the way that Poker Tracker breaks down online stats, but by understanding my stats in online play, I've been able to take what I learned there and apply it to live play. As a result, I've become a better live limit player.

the great pokertracker giveaway

For those of you who want something for free, this is your chance to get it! I'm giving away one free license of PokerTracker, courtesy of the PokerTracker folks -- a $55.00 value!

Here's what you have to do:

write a short paragraph, no longer than 100 words, on why you're the biggest fish (worst player) who has ever graced an online poker room. Be creative, be funny, and keep it under 100 words. E-mail it to me. The deadline is Friday, March 26, 2004, at 5pm central time. The single entry which I deem to be the funniest will win one free license to PokerTracker.

Semi-legal stuff: by entering this contest you are giving me full rights over the submitted entry, including explicit permission to post your entry on this website. With each entry, include your real name and e-mail address, as well as any alias you want me to use if I decide to post your entry. Any entry I post will only have the alias you give me as a credit; I will not post your real name or e-mail address anywhere online but I do need it in order for you to receive the license if you win.

March 19 2004 | permalink(37 players) | 0 pointers

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