Poker Tracker Guide

Has anyone who uses PT ordered and read the Poker Tracker Guide. If so, did you find it usefull? I ordered Poker Tracker last night and just looking through it and not being completely computer program savvy, I was completely overwhelmed by all of it's components. I figure I will probably need to order the guide, but I need it most to figure out how to set up PT and use it so it helps me the most. Will the guide help me to accomplish this?

To be honest, I don't even know where to start with getting it set up so it can help me the most. If anyone has advice or tips on this as well, I'd be happy to here them.

http://www.cardschat.com/poker-tracker-guide.php

http://www.cardschat.com/f11/analyzi...tracker-82641/

I hope these help pokernut

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Thanks a bunch. That helps a ton.

If you do end up getting the guide, please give us a "book report" and let us know how helpful you found it to be, or if you think others might want to purchase it.

I was thinking of getting it myself (it's still $20?)...

Yeah, it's $20. I am going to get it. I figure it can only help. Why spend $55 on PT and not be able to use it to it's full capabilities right?

I'll let you know. I have no problems sharing it with others either if it will allow me to email it or something like that.

Where is the guide sold? I've never heard of it before. Just thought that the only resources for PT were the forum and just random small time guides like ours above.

I ordered it and just got my copy emailed to me. I haven't had a chance to read it yet but it looks very informative. It touches on quite a bit and basically shows you everything about PT and how to use it all.

I'll give a report after I read it.

I read through the 'example chapter' on their site; looks pretty good to me actually. I don't have a credit card or paypal, so I'll have to wait a bit to set either up if I actually want to get it.

But ya, let us know how it is

Well I read the first half so far and sifted through the rest briefly. I am glad that I bought it but if you already know the ins and outs on PT (like you ChuckT) it might not tell you much that you don't already know.

The first part showed you how to set everything up. It showed you how to review sessions, playback hands, and what to look at to try and find/fix leaks in your game. This is what I read so far and was very informative for me but probably doesn't give any knew info if you already use this.

The second part is all about player tracking. It shows you how to set it up to track players by observing and playing. The writer of the book said he opens up tables as many tables as it will observe before he goes to bed at night so he can get that much more info on people in his database (amazing).

It teaches you how to read all of the statistics and what they mean and how to use that info.

Probably the most useful thing that I learned that I can't wait to get set up is the 'notes exporter'. You can have PT create notes on players using all of the hand histories and info collected and then export them out to the sites so they automatically tag the player and make notes on them. WOW! That'll help me pick ring game tables.

Pretty good helpers manual for a PT newbie for just $20. If you already have had PT for a while though you have probably already played around with all of this and figured it out.

P.S. -- ChuckTs....I didn't see anything on the Tournament side of things. You should email him your article to put in there for a royalty. Hell if you only get 1-2 bucks a book, I'm sure that will be a very nice score :-). That is defintely something that they missed out on.