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About The Authors

Henry “HDouble” Wasserman has been playing online poker since 2001, and published

his first article in a major poker magazine in 2004, titled “The Viral Phenomenon of

Poker Blogs” for the premiere issue of All-In Magazine . He maintains a poker web log,

“The Cards Speak,” which he updates weekly.

Henry obtained his Masters degree in Information Retrieval from the Computer Science

department at the University of California, Irvine in 2002, and worked as a software

engineer at a major Los Angeles hospital for two years before taking a job with a major

online poker site. While not playing poker, he can be found using Poker Tracker to help

coach fellow students of the game.

Iggy writes about all things poker in his popular web log, "Guinness and Poker" .

Nicknamed "The Blogfather" by his peers, he is the author of one of the most popular

poker blogs on the web. The Blogfather honed his writing skills while pursuing a

journalism degree at a small liberal arts school in the 80s. He has been playing online

poker since 1999, after leaving Las Vegas for the Midwest. He recently left his corporate

job for the adventures of professional poker, and can be found playing the highest limit

games online.

Iggy blogs about poker nearly every day, all the while bemoaning the loss of "taste and

decency" in modern times. He now lives with his mother in New Orleans.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS............................................................................................................................ 2

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 4

PART 1: REVIEWING YOUR PLAY ....................................................................................................... 6

1.1 I NDIVIDUAL S ESSION R EVIEW .............................................................................................................. 6

1.1.1 Session review: set up .................................................................................................................. 6

1.1.2 Playing back hands ...................................................................................................................... 9

1.2 G ENERAL R EVIEW : F INDING MISTAKES IN YOUR PLAY ....................................................................... 13

1.2.1 Analyzing Trouble Hands........................................................................................................... 13

1.2.2 Leak Finding .............................................................................................................................. 16

PART 2: PLAYER TRACKING............................................................................................................... 26

2.1 H OW TO A VOID B EING T RACKED : C HANGING Y OUR S CREEN N AME ................................................. 26

2.2 C OLLECTING D ATA : G AINING AN I NFORMATIONAL A DVANTAGE ...................................................... 29

2.3 A UTOMATICALLY G ENERATING P LAYER P ROFILES ............................................................................ 31

2.3.1 Using the Auto-Rate Feature ..................................................................................................... 31

2.3.2 Using the Notes Exporter ........................................................................................................... 47

2.4 T ABLE S ELECTION USING E XPORTED P LAYER N OTES ......................................................................... 50

2.5 P LAYING THE P LAYERS : S TRATEGIES FOR E ACH P LAYER C ATEGORY ................................................ 51

2.5.1 Loose Players............................................................................................................................. 51

2.5.2 Tight Players .............................................................................................................................. 52

2.6 D IFFERENT D ATABASES FOR D IFFERENT G AMES ................................................................................ 53

2.7 T HE S UMMARY T AB : F INDING THE B IG F ISH ...................................................................................... 54

2.8 T HE G AME T IME W INDOW : R EAL - TIME STATISTICS ........................................................................... 56

2.8.1 Loading the External Game Time Window ................................................................................ 56

2.8.2 Understanding the Data............................................................................................................. 57

2.8.3 Obtaining Position and Hand Statistics for players in the Game Time Window ....................... 57

2.9 E NHANCING THE G AME T IME ENVIRONMENT : P OKER T RACKER P LUG -I NS ........................................ 57

2.9.1 PlayerViewNet ........................................................................................................................... 58

2.9.2 GameTime+ ............................................................................................................................... 61

CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................... 63

Introduction

Once upon a time, before the game of poker could be played online, it was extremely difficult for

a player to determine how well he was really playing. When playing in a casino or card room, the

only way to keep track of your play is either to take copious notes on every hand (not a good

thing for one’s table image) or to memorize every hand and every bet. But even if a player has

actual or memorized notes on every single hand, there is no way to aggregate this data for the

purpose of analysis.

The recent explosion of online poker brought along the concept of the “hand history,” a detailed

list of every single action that happened for any given hand. The online poker sites compile hand

histories for every single hand played on their site, and make them publicly available for

download. At first, players began saving individual hand histories for further review if they

thought the hand was interesting. But the hand history files just sat in a big pile of text files, and

required lots of careful reading by poker players to figure out exactly what happened during the

hand.

Eventually, a smart programmer figured out that a tool for collecting and analyzing these hand

histories would be extremely valuable to the serious poker player. Poker Tracker was born, and

online poker hasn’t been the same since. Poker Tracker not only does the work of recording

every single thing we do at the poker table, it also collects this data and organizes it in ways that

allow us to quickly analyze our play as well as the play of our opponents. With a few clicks of

the mouse, we can find out which hand we’ve lost the most money with when we cold-called a

raise from the button, or discover the percentage of times the opponent to our right raises. Such

powerful tools have never been available to poker players before, and those who take advantage

of these tools will improve their game much more rapidly than those who don’t.

Poker Tracker is an extremely powerful program, and new users are often overwhelmed by its

complexity. The authors of this book have been using the program for over two years, and we are

surprised every time we meet a serious online player who doesn’t use Poker Tracker. In

conversations with online players across the globe, we found that many players had downloaded

the software, but weren’t taking advantage of Poker Tracker’s many features. One day we

discussed the benefits of writing a book to explain how to get the most out of the software tool,

and made a post on our websites wondering if any players would be interested in such a book.

Within a week we had dozens of requests for a Poker Tracker user guide, and we realized that this

was something that appealed strongly to serious poker players.

This book is a result of our cumulative efforts to help serious players extract the most from Poker

Tracker. We’ve broken it up into two sections, according to the two major functions of the

software. The first section, “ Reviewing Your Play ,” describes how to use Poker Tracker to

improve your own play based on the personal hand history information stored in the database.

The second section, “ Player Tracking ”, focuses on how to use Poker Tracker to gain an

informational advantage over your online opponents. Our hope is that the book will help you to

improve your poker play through a better understanding of Poker Tracker.

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