Utilizing PokerAceHUD to the Fullest

I would hope that many of you have taken advantage of VPP's many promotions to get a license for PokerAceHUD, what I believe is the top add-on for PokerTracker.

This program allows you to display statistics on your opponents, as an overlay on the poker table, in REAL TIME. I'm sure you can see how this could be an advantage. As you play at a table, PokerTracker analyzes the hand histories you generate and not only tracks YOUR play, it also provides the same statistics on your opponents. With this information, you can...

--Help put an opponent on a range (VP$IP)
--See how solid a hand he/she will raise with (PFR)
--Determine how aggressive an opponent is (AF)
--See how reliable these stats actually are (number of hands played)

I have my own system with PAHud:

***WARNING: This presupposes that you have read the tutorials on http://www.pokeracesoftware.com, so if you haven't read them, make sure you head over there, as Josh has really put together some nice info.

I use the "Combined Stats" option, and put in to this line the primary stats you look at to get an "at-a-glance" read on a player:

VP$IP/PFR/AF-T/# Hands

I also use the color range option to sort these players. In recent updates, Josh has added the ability to change the color of each stat within a combined stat line to match pre-determined ranges. I use pretty basic color schemes--first selecting VP$IP (Voluntarily Put Money into the Pot) and setting say <20%>55% as green. Then, I'll do the same for PFR--<5%>15% to be red. These are oversimplified and not my actual ranges, but I'm sure you get the point. You want to be able to look at the line above the player's name and get a quick and dirty read on how they play, and this is a fairly easy method. The same goes for aggression factor. Your goal here is to essentially render the auto-rate rules I wrote to be obsolete. You want to look at a player's line, and see a red VP$IP, a red PFR, and a red AF-T and say, "He's tight-aggressive/aggressive," and know that if he's raising he's raising with a solid hand.

PokerAceHUD also allows you to use "Pop-Up" stats, which are stats that you can access by clicking on the opponent's name at the table. The stats you select will then pop up, stay for a few seconds, then disappear until you click on them again. When playing NL, I'll put these type stats into the "Pop-Up:"

--Call PFR--if I raise, and he flat calls, how likely is it that he's trapping me?
--Aggression Frequency--a PAHud-exclusive stat, it gives more insight to Aggression than the old aggression frequency does. I select it by street (flop, turn, and river) and use to to see how likely a player is to bet when checked to, and if that bet means you're beat or if he's just firing to fire a bullet.
--Went to Showdown--how far will my opponent take a marginal hand? Will he play his TPGK hand all the way even though I'm betting/raising him to death? The higher this number, the more likely it is...
--Won $ at Showdown--is he taking only monster hands to showdown, or is he value betting with marginal hands to chase you away?
--Won $ When Raised Turn/River--Don't you just love when you're leading out, leading out, and some donkey decides to raise on the turn, usually a min-raise? This stat (over 100s of hands) lets you know how likely he is to have a solid hand. If this number is low, he's a bluffer and is trying to buy a pot (more often).

My next article will have some screenshots on how I use PAHud, so stew on this for now, and continued luck at the tables!