Ok. I'm going to be the fly in the ointment. I don't need data mining softeware to know the above info. And yes, if you play long enough and pay attention, you'll know that JTo is one of the biggest trap hands out there.
I played for years (mostly live) without pokertracker. Then after a couple of years of online play, I bought it. Here's my 2 biggest realizations.
1) regarding what hands to play or not to play, Pokertracker didn't tell me anything new.
2) regarding knowing my opponents - it hurt me. It made me think I knew things about opponents that were not true. Personally, I'd rather trust my notes or treat an opponent as an unknown rather than make decisions based on a sample size of 250 or fewer hands. I just don't play with the same set of opponents often at the levels I play to get a sample size that's big enough. Maybe above 30/60 that changes, so I'll keep an open mind.
I used Pokertracker for six months, then stopped. I don't miss it. However, I don't multi-table (occaisionally, I'll play 2 tables, but that's rare), so I can see it being a bit helpful on opponent reads if you play 4+ tables, but you're still going with statistically thin samples.
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