Video about Poker Tracker 3 by TPC!!!

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In this video I show you how to set up Poker Tracker 3. I also show you how to use PT3 to look at your play and find leaks in your own game.


Watch the video here
http://vimeo.com/7830475

you can also download the video from the link above at the bottom of the page.

Please post any questions or comments. Also any suggestions on future videos, thanks:D
 
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Looking forward to viewing another video of yours, they're all interesting to watch.
 
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Exactly what I needed, thanks!
 
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there are a few things i want to comment about in this video, but i should be making a disclaimer first :) please take the following as constructive criticism; i am not trying to belittle your work, you did a great job, the video is mostly great stuff and people will benefit greatly from it (me too, for some of the parts), which is the entire point, after all. however:

- wouldn't it have been much more useful if you could use a little longer period / bigger database selection to show your thoughts? in 3k hands, that can basically all be variance at work ;)

- please try to make the sound volume (your voice, the music was already fine to loud) a little higher next time - i had to strain to hear your words, and i didn't enjoy that a lot (this may have been a noisier environment for me, so take other opinions).

- (most serious, although still debatable) your analysis of the positions where you lose money is somewhat flawed. we can see that you are basically only behind in the blinds (awesome), but then again, your basis of comparison should not be the same, i.e. while in the rest of the positions it does not cost you anything to see your cards, here it does. and since most of the time you would be folding anyway, that means your baseline is not 0, but somewhat lower. for example, -2 or -5 cents, depending on the blind (this is also a little simplified, but i think closer to the truth than your POV). this is why PT3 has the awesome "without blind" column. there, you can see that you are actually winning money from the big blind compared to always folding, but your SB play could use some work. and now, you need to look at that more closely. at first sight, it seems that your VPIP from the SB is about the same as on the button, and that does not make much sense if you are mostly completing the BB, no matter what odds you are getting/how many limpers there are. if, however, it is mostly blind vs. blind situations, then i would suggest slightly toning down the aggression in that particular spot. :angel:

i hope all this made sense and it wasn't overly critical. those are really minor points that i thought should be discussed a little further, but overall you did a really good job with the video and explanations. one more time, thanks for all the effort!
 
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My laptop sucks for sound, but I heard his voice just fine. Maybe your speakers settings or something..?
 
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Trigs, do not, I repeat do not make any changes to your voice no matter what anyone says...you know I mean that and you know why!
 
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there are a few things i want to comment about in this video, but i should be making a disclaimer first :) please take the following as constructive criticism; i am not trying to belittle your work, you did a great job, the video is mostly great stuff and people will benefit greatly from it (me too, for some of the parts), which is the entire point, after all. however:

- wouldn't it have been much more useful if you could use a little longer period / bigger database selection to show your thoughts? in 3k hands, that can basically all be variance at work ;)

I agree, however the video was intended to show players how do use PT3, not necessarily to see my stats. I got a new computer due to my old one crashing. So, there wasn't any other hands at the time I shot the video.

- please try to make the sound volume (your voice, the music was already fine to loud) a little higher next time - i had to strain to hear your words, and i didn't enjoy that a lot (this may have been a noisier environment for me, so take other opinions).

I had one other person say that, but then he realized the volume on his computer was set too low. I would check that.

The music will aways be loud, there is no way around that. I manually lower the volume of the music as low as possible when producing the video. Think about when you watch a movie on TV or DVD, the music is always louder than the people talking.

Also, I don't have a great mic and the sound is recorded in 8 bit stereo to keep the file size as small as possible. Only way to make my voice better quality is to get a better mic, which I'll do in the future. I could always record the audio in 16 bit stereo, but that can cause the file size to be too large to upload.

Unfortunately, it's not a high budget project being produced to a DVD. With the limits in equipment I have and technology offered by free video hosting sites, there is not much more I can do to make the audio quality much better.

- (most serious, although still debatable) your analysis of the positions where you lose money is somewhat flawed. we can see that you are basically only behind in the blinds (awesome), but then again, your basis of comparison should not be the same, i.e. while in the rest of the positions it does not cost you anything to see your cards, here it does. and since most of the time you would be folding anyway, that means your baseline is not 0, but somewhat lower. for example, -2 or -5 cents, depending on the blind (this is also a little simplified, but i think closer to the truth than your POV). this is why PT3 has the awesome "without blind" column. there, you can see that you are actually winning money from the big blind compared to always folding, but your SB play could use some work. and now, you need to look at that more closely. at first sight, it seems that your VPIP from the SB is about the same as on the button, and that does not make much sense if you are mostly completing the BB, no matter what odds you are getting/how many limpers there are. if, however, it is mostly blind vs. blind situations, then i would suggest slightly toning down the aggression in that particular spot. :angel:

You know, I've never seen the Without Blind column before. It's been there the whole time, but I've just ignored it. Interesting. You are right, it's hard to have positive stats in the BB. I don't believe I said they should be positive. However, the lower we make that number the more profit we will have. Also the biggest leak most players have are in the blinds.

I watched the video again and agree I should have made my thoughts more clear on that. And now looking at the without blinds column, the work needs to be done in the SB. I'm actually embarrassed that I've never noticed that column before.

Yes, the VPIP should be lower in the SB and I do mention that in the video. If you look at your VPIP by position it should be the lowest in EP and gradually raise the later your position is.

i hope all this made sense and it wasn't overly critical. those are really minor points that i thought should be discussed a little further, but overall you did a really good job with the video and explanations. one more time, thanks for all the effort!

Not too critical. You made some great points, and I should have made some of my thoughts more clear. The intention of this video was to show people how to set up and use PT3. But after reading your comments I think I'll log a bunch more hands and do another video purely on data, graphs and reports.

My laptop sucks for sound, but I heard his voice just fine. Maybe your speakers settings or something..?

Yeah, that was my thought.

Trigs, do not, I repeat do not make any changes to your voice no matter what anyone says...you know I mean that and you know why!

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MAKE...MORE...VIDEOS!

Will do!!! You have any ideas on what you would like to see?


That goes fore anyone, if you have a good idea for a video you would like to see, let me know and I'll do my best to make one.
 
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Will do!!! You have any ideas on what you would like to see?


That goes fore anyone, if you have a good idea for a video you would like to see, let me know and I'll do my best to make one.

Only thing I can think of right now is position, I'm still having a hard time understanding that 100%.. not sure if its enough for a video..

It just blows my mind on how you folded I think it was KJ suited or something simply because you were first in position???

Sense it blows my mind that means I really need lessons on it lol.
 
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Only thing I can think of right now is position, I'm still having a hard time understanding that 100%.. not sure if its enough for a video..

It just blows my mind on how you folded I think it was KJ suited or something simply because you were first in position???

Sense it blows my mind that means I really need lessons on it lol.


Most all of the videos talk a little about position. I'll make it a point in the next sweat session video to talk a lot about position.

The KJ suited hand was early in a ring session, you don't have any reads or know what any one's tendencies are yet. Therefore if you raise with KJ suited from UTG, you are only going to get called by a hand that is beating you. So if we raise with that hand, we need to hope we hit a pair and have a flush draw to go with it. If we just hit our K, now we have to worry about our kicker, same if we hit the J. We would want to keep the pot small which is very hard to do when you are out of position.

Now later on in the session if we have the same hand, we might play that hand from UTG. We will know our opponents tendencies and might be able to out play them if we miss the flop. However, that depends on how that table is running.
 
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Most all of the videos talk a little about position. I'll make it a point in the next sweat session video to talk a lot about position.

The KJ suited hand was early in a ring session, you don't have any reads or know what any one's tendencies are yet. Therefore if you raise with KJ suited from UTG, you are only going to get called by a hand that is beating you. So if we raise with that hand, we need to hope we hit a pair and have a flush draw to go with it. If we just hit our K, now we have to worry about our kicker, same if we hit the J. We would want to keep the pot small which is very hard to do when you are out of position.

Now later on in the session if we have the same hand, we might play that hand from UTG. We will know our opponents tendencies and might be able to out play them if we miss the flop. However, that depends on how that table is running.

Ah okay.:D
 
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Making videos is the best way to teach some people, awesome job!
 
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The blinds.....

Idiotic me the window showing money won by position was not enlarged and I never saw the humongous amounts of cash I was losing in the SB and BB......I vpip as often in the SB as on the button......I never saw these stats......the window wasnt enlarged....sometimes its that stupid isnt it?

Great article thanks so much Triggalos
 
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