How do I make it so I don't come up in other players Poker Tracker software? I really don't like cheaters so I don't want to give them this information about me if I can help it..
Hi YouPay4MyCrack, we have been providing software for online poker players for nearly 14 years, this is longer than most of the players here on Chardschat have been playing - and we are proud of the achievements our software has helped some players achieve. Personal tracking software tracks your own play, in turn it also tracks your personal experience with opponents. Due to the nature of the way a personal tracker works, this is an incomplete picture of your opponents - we designed it this way intentionally because the nerly universally accepted rules of the game allow you to make notes and record observations about your opponents. For example if you are in Las Vegas playing live, you can pull out a pad and paper and record everything you observe - this is 100% legal and within the rules of the game. PokerTracker automates this observation process, but only for hands that you are personally involved in and where the online poker provides hand histories written to your local computer specifically for the purpose of tracking your own records.
Its best to compare what we do to professional sports, I will use Baseball as the example. Baseball fans have access to stats for all of the teams, as well as all players. A Baseball fan has access to these stats even if they do not watch a game. Conversely an online poker player only has access to his own personal stats, we are not in the business of sharing stats for games you did not participate in. There are many promoters of online poker that want to "sportify" the game, if part of sportification is providing stats for all players regardless of your personal involvement in the game then we would not support this type of sportification - our experience is designed to be personal, this makes it a fair and acceptable use to utilise our tools on networks that allow and/or encourage the use of our service such as
pokerstars, Party, iPoker,
888, and others.
Yeah if you need special software that people can't even get without paying for just to win than I'd say that's cheating. But to each his own.
PokerTracker is available for free as a signup incentive, and we have partnerships with various online poker rooms. At one time we even gave away a
partypoker branded version of PokerTracker in the PartyPoker online store. We intentionally keep the cost very affordable so it is not out of reach; we want as many players as possible to consider using our software. Additionally our parnet brand Holdem Manager is currently testing hmcloud, this beta is available to test for free until it is released publicly at
http://www.holdemmanager.com/hm-cloud/
Over the many years we have been in business we have heard from users who suggest we charge signifigantly more for our software than we do, we have heard from some players who think we should charge $5,000, or even $10,000 for access to our software - we of course think this is ridiculous; we prefer to offer it for a very affordable fee of $59.99 which is less than the price of dinner for two in many countries.
Some players argue that everyone should have access to a HUD, we disagree - we have always felt a HUD is an optional choice. Can you imagine if you were trading stocks and you were required to use a trading desk and review technical analysis before you made a trade? Trading desks are optional tools, in the same way that personal Trackers and HUDs are optional tools - nobody should be forced to opt in, it is a personal choice.
Bovada/Bodog does not allow those trackers, as far as I know.
Actually this is not true. The terms of service for Bovada do allow personal tracking. Bovada chose to provide hand histories 24 hours after the game is completed and include all of the hole cards. Can you imagine if you played a live
poker game where at the end of the hand everyone turned over their hole cards - even those who folded preflop? Thats why we choose to not support Bovada. It might also surprise you to know that Bovada actually asked us to support their 4.0 software, we declined their request. We supported Bodog 3.0 software with the company's full permission, in fact we were close with the CEO at the time.
Coming from someone who needs to pay for special software just to win lmao, I'm in the top 10% of online players listed on Official Poker Rankings without this crap.. Fish. Wonder how you play in real life, oh that's right you can't without your special tools
I think you may be confusing the functionality of the HUD, which is just one feature of PokerTracker. The HUD is designed to help you multitable, it is an optional tool - some players actually disable their HUD while using PokerTracker. If you play in small fields of opponents or know all of your opponents as high stakes players do, then you may not need to use a HUD. If you play in massive fields of opponents and rarely come across the same opponents frequently then a HUD will help you remember who each of your opponents are. If you play at one table at a time taking meticulous notes then you may not need a HUD, but if you multitable it becomes very hard to take great notes which means the HUD becomes more helpful. The HUD will not make you a better player, any edge you gain is by making you more productive - this is a concept that confuses some players, the inherent advantage you gain by using a HUD is by being more productive. A similar concept exists in the financial markets, if you are a stock trader you do not have an edge if you use a trading desk; the trading desk is only designed to make you more productive.
anyway poker tracker isn't cheating it gives an advantage but it's part of the online world and most places couldn't stop it unless they followed bovada way and went the anon route which a lot of players are against
We support anonymous tables; but we do not support Bovada. See above for details
so you have a couple options play on bovada, adapt, play live, or just accept that some people will have an advantage though poker software
i don't use the software and I've won plenty of money online
A live game does not need a tracker, in a live game your brain performs the exact same function as PokerTracker. Problem is the human brain is "programed" to remember faces, not screen names... in a live game you can quickly get get a feel for your opponent's playing style, online we need more information because the brain does not process the observations in the same way - therefore we create stats, and you can use these stats in conjunction with one another to begin to create what we call an "opponent profile" in your mind that mimics the exact same process we naturally perform in a live game.
We like to compare PokerTracker to an encyclopedia. Owning an encyclopedia does not make you smarter, just like owning PokerTracker does not make you a better player... only those who take the time to study using the data contained within PokerTracker become better players. It takes lots of research AFTER the game is done for PokerTracker to help you to become a better player, those who review hands and sessions post-game by running various reports with filters will learn quicker than their counterparts how to improve their own games. Many players overvalue the use of the HUD, they mistakenly think of PokerTracker as a HUD & post game graph tool - if these same players instead used PokerTracker like a post-game encyclopedia reviewing their hands then they would get far more mour of our software.
As always, we are happy to answer any reasonable questions or concerns the OP or anyone else in this thread may have. Feel free to ask, we will do our best to give you honest and fair answers!
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