[ba-poker] Hand Tracking

["Uncle Roger" <rogerc22(deleted the rest)>]

OK, I'm a convert. I bought PokerTracker and subscribed to PokerEDGE.  I 
like them both.

I don't think I will ever again play in online ring games without using some 
form of hand tracking.

For  S & G games, however,  the data is often fragmentary.  I'd rather have 
one good piece of qualitative information (e.g., "the player limped UTG with 
Q7s at a full table lvl 3") than quantitative information based on a small 
sample (e.g., "In 30 hands, the player had a 45% rate of voluntarily putting 
money in the pot")

Keeping track of both qualitative and quantitative information gives you 
plenty to do.  People who play several tables at once must give short shrift 
to one or the other.  If they focus on the statistics instead of noting 
specific moves of individual players,  does that mean that they are not 
practicing  player-analysis skills that they will need in B&M  games?

PokerTracker has a really neat hand replay feature.  For Party Players, 
PokerEDGE has a lot of data and a nifty interface.

All that being said, it seems to me that there is a niche for an online site 
that defeats hand tracking by allowing players to change their screen names 
periodically.



Roger