I just wanted to dig out this old thread to share with you my experiences of using all of three
Captions since 3 months.
Guys... i love it! Seriously, i don't want to sound like i advertising it, but i do really love it. There are Top 5 features, this software adds, which i hadn't before and i found extremely useful:
- Actions HUD. That's my favorite. Caption simply watching, what actions your villains did till now and shows it under their name. Man... i can't really overrate how useful it is! It's essential stuff for anyone who likes multitabling, as i do! In addition you may add information about amounts of blinds been raised or called on every street and how long it took him for every action. Great stuff!
- Converting stacks and bets into BB. Forget the huge amounts of chips in Tournaments, everything in BB. Makes it very simple and clear on one hand. On an another, you know, it's kind of psychological thing... Many people tighten their game up at late phase of the tournament, because they start to see huge amounts of chips to call. Forget about it with Caption. No matter, if at the beginning or at the end, you see just small numbers of Big Blinds. Great idea. On top of that, you even could set it to change it's color, depending on amount. For example, you could set it to turn red after a stack goes under 15BB, so you know that Stack/Player is in "Push or Fold" situation right now. Sweet feature!
- Another good one - Positions. With Caption you may set and bring a positions HUD on. So you don't have to waste precious time for counting players at the table to define at which position you or your villain at the moment is. Simple but helpful.
- Hotkeys. Well, if you are playing just Poker Stars, you don't really care about this one. Because it has already feature to set any action at any button. But since you feel the taste of it at Poker Stars, it will bother you a lot at 888 or Party Poker. Because they don't have this option! And you got used to and need it! Caption removes this issue. You may set up hotkeys through this software, as if you were playing at Poker Stars. Essential thing for me.
- Many different less significant features, but still nice to have them. You can set up Caption to do for you many little things automatically, which makes your grind way more easier:
- For example, you could set up, that when it's your turn, your betting slider is already at x3 BB (or x2,5 BB). Can also set up it depending on range in amount of chips for early, middle or late phase of the Tournament.
- There is a nice feature, that clicks for you "I'm back" button, when you went away and your time bank is out. That saves you extra time.
- There is a feature, that Caption will click for you all those bothering one-okay-button windows popping-up.
- You can set a position and a size of a new table. (Great one for multitabling)
- And from it's HUD i also love to have at my tables: how many places ITM stat, SPR stat, Stack to Pot in % (Pot Chances) and how many seconds it took for someone to make his last action stat.
Overall i can say it's a great software i recommend to use, it gives you those extra, that maybe make your game slightly better, but also more comfortable to play. And it's free up to $3 games and NL10 cash games. If you want to use it on higher limits, you have to buy a year license, otherwise it will shutdown automatically, until you close the table with too high buy-in.
I hope my little review will help somebody. I also ready to help, if you have some issues with it, if i can. Don't hesitate to ask!
Here is a link to official site with downloads.