Poker Tracker Best and Worst Starting Hands...

[PShabi]

I hope I didn't come across to strong either. The first line in my last post was totally tongue-in-cheek. It doesn't read like that this time through though.

At one point, I was feeling the same way, that I was getting to caught up in minutiae. I've got a refined method of buddylisting and table/seat selection now and I think I've got a better handle on playing with the Gametime overlay.

I'm really trying to take notes more and trying to get as many reads as I can. For whatever reason, if I fire up a party table and I don't have a gametime overlay, I feel "naked." I'm just so used to it now, that I can't imagine playing without it.

Kind of like Tivo!

[Talking Poker]

Mmmmmmmmm, Tivo. The toy that changed my life

As for Poker Tracker, I'm in agreement with both of you. While I find the silly details interesting (see above), they don't affect how I play.... much. I won't say they don't at all though, because I am a bit mroe aware of some of my trouble hands now than I used to be.

When I fire up PT and GT+, I rarely even look at the numbers.... but I do on occasion. Maybe every 50 hands, I'll take a look around the table and check out the VPIPs mostly. I multi-table all the time, and PT helps me keep track of who has come and gone. I realize 50 hands isn't a significant sample size, but when one guy has a 78% VPIP and another has a 12% VPIP, that's telling you something right there. Yes, you could probably be aware of this without PT, but it's a lot easier using it when you are multi-tabling. I also find that while I can pick uut the maniacs at a given table easily, sometimes the tight players fly under my radar. It's like I forget about them because they aren't in many pots... PT helps me with that too.

I only use it at Party/Empire. And I never use it in tourneys. This ends up being just a fraction of the hands I play.... but like I've said, I still highly recommend it. ESPECIALLY for newer players that are still at the steep part of their learning curve. The only reason I would recommend PT for a guy like Kurn is because I'd like to see his numbers and compare them to my own to see if that helped identify any leaks...