Professional Poker Software – PokerTracker

The best software for evaluating your game and that of your opponents is PokerTracker. This remarkable software will make a record of each and every hand of poker you play online and sort them into a user friendly database so you can see your plays exactly, and even better, your opponents play. The pros use this, why not you? How it works:

Your online poker rooms are automatically storing detailed histories of every hand you play on your hard drive. What PokerTracker does is import this history into an easily readable database. You can then compile whatever statistics are meaningful to you and use this compilation to shore up any weaknesses in your game.

It will also allow you to profile your opponents and find and exploit weaknesses in their game. PokerTracker is also a great record keeping tool. It will tell you how many hands you have played, how much you won or lost, how many hours you have played, how much you are making per hour, and a number of other things. The most important aspect of the software is the statistical reporting.

You have probably wondered at some point how aggressively or passively, or how tight or loose you play. PokerTracker will give this information to you on your game and on all your opponents as well. It will tell you when you lose focus and when you begin playing too many hands, an aspect that you have probably not looked into before. You also probably are unaware of the number of times you checkraise, win at showdown, go to showdown, and a myriad of other worthwhile facets of your game that you should be paying attention to.

With this software you can look at and judge the performance of every type of starting hand that you have played. These hands can then be sorted by position so you can see the places where you are making money and those where you are losing. Obviously, you want to cut out the losing hands and play only the winners making you a more profitable (and more formidable) poker player. If you cannot look at a history tracking the hands you have played in what position, you also cannot tell which hands are making you money and which ones are costing you. Most of us remember the outstanding winners and the big losers, but it is the not so memorable hands in between that separate the professional poker player from the amateur. Don’t be an amateur.

The author has played poker full time since 2005 and makes the majority of his income from online poker. He currently plays poker online and gets RakeBack at Doyles Room.