PokerTracker and the Player Types
PokerTracker not only allows you to analyze your own play, including parameters like hand selection, winrate, and the ability to replay hands in hindsight to see where you went wrong, it allows you to do the thing that playing online (i.e., not live) does not allow you to do: gain reads on your opponents.
I pride myself on being able to read players and their hands far better than the average amateur player. Playing live, I'm usuallly very good at guessing players' hole cards (or at least a range they could be playing) based upon their reactions, their betting patterns, and their other various tells. I've actually laid down a flopped set of 9's because I read that an opponent had flopped a well-disguised straight. I called across the table to ask him if he "had 75 suited..." as I tossed my hand into the muck. He then rolled over 75 of spades for the straight.
Online, you can't do that as easily. You don't have people's reactions, their tells, their little facial nuances that allow you to see through them into their soul. You need something else to compensate for the lack of information online poker gives you. That's where PokerTracker and PokerAce HUD come into play.
Using PokerTracker and the auto-rate rules available through the links below, and PokerAceHUD, you can track players' trends and tendencies, and see a general picture of how they play--a read of sorts--and you can respond accordingly.
This makes these programs very valuable, in fact, indispensable, for the winning online player. These programs are, IMHO, essential to maximize your profitability in the online poker world.
In the next series of articles, I will go over the auto-rate rules for both Limit Holdem and No-Limit Holdem (since they were both based on the same set of rules developed by Bet-the-Pot's excession--I just modified them for LHE), and discuss the different player types and optimal strategy against the players. Hopefully these articles will help you become more profitable players!
Limit Holdem Auto-Rate Rules
Excession's No-Limit Holdem Auto-Rate Rules
Discuss this post in the VPP Forums!
I pride myself on being able to read players and their hands far better than the average amateur player. Playing live, I'm usuallly very good at guessing players' hole cards (or at least a range they could be playing) based upon their reactions, their betting patterns, and their other various tells. I've actually laid down a flopped set of 9's because I read that an opponent had flopped a well-disguised straight. I called across the table to ask him if he "had 75 suited..." as I tossed my hand into the muck. He then rolled over 75 of spades for the straight.
Online, you can't do that as easily. You don't have people's reactions, their tells, their little facial nuances that allow you to see through them into their soul. You need something else to compensate for the lack of information online poker gives you. That's where PokerTracker and PokerAce HUD come into play.
Using PokerTracker and the auto-rate rules available through the links below, and PokerAceHUD, you can track players' trends and tendencies, and see a general picture of how they play--a read of sorts--and you can respond accordingly.
This makes these programs very valuable, in fact, indispensable, for the winning online player. These programs are, IMHO, essential to maximize your profitability in the online poker world.
In the next series of articles, I will go over the auto-rate rules for both Limit Holdem and No-Limit Holdem (since they were both based on the same set of rules developed by Bet-the-Pot's excession--I just modified them for LHE), and discuss the different player types and optimal strategy against the players. Hopefully these articles will help you become more profitable players!
Limit Holdem Auto-Rate Rules
Excession's No-Limit Holdem Auto-Rate Rules
Discuss this post in the VPP Forums!
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