If you do not use HUD when you play, in principle, you can’t use the statistics program to analyze your game just silly. But this is my personal opinion, I did not want to offend anyone. Good luck to everyone at the table (with or without Hud) and in life
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I don't use HUDs, and I don't plan on ever using them when I am playing. I guess I am just silly, but my stats don't feel too silly to me.
I understand wanting to get more stats on things in order to try to gain a more detailed perspective, but when you are playing and trying to focus on the task at hand, I don't really feel like reviewing a bunch of stats that might not have any relevance on my decision making for that hand. I also don't want to be making decisions based on what some piece of software is telling me to do. If the HUD reaches a certain conclusion about a hand, and says the best move is to raise, or fold, or whatever, then I want to reach that same conclusion on my own, without having to get help from some software. This is because I have plans to play live tournaments in the future, and I want my online game to be the same as my live game.
Maybe HUDs are the reason why so many players think I am
bluffing when I am not, and
visa versa. If players are making decisions on how to play me based on what some software
tells them, they are making a mistake. I make an effort to change how I play, so if you think I am always doing the same things, and that your HUD is going to give you insight as to all of my patterns and habits, good luck with that. It is sort of like people who think they are Matt Damon in rounders and are "making reads" all the time that will help them know exactly what to do. You are going to be fooled by things like conformation bias and pareidolia. You are going to think you know exactly what I have, or what I am doing, and when it turns out to be totally wrong, you are going to be mad at yourself for doing it. I think we all know how that feels, because we have all been at that point where we thought we could make killer reads on everyone, when in fact we were only making lucky guesses, and when our guesses turn out unlucky, we see the truth of our "reads."
One more thing: I don't understand how everyone runs around saying things like "the cards don't matter at all." and "play the player, not the cards," but they also swear up and down that HUDs are a must to be a winning player, and that no one who wants to win should play without them. Using a HUD for everything is not "playing the player," it is playing the players stats, which are not always an accurate indicators of what they are presently going to do at the table.
Maybe some people can play better with HUD's, but for me, I think I would just go into analysis paralysis. Also, I would rather use the players immediate past behavior and habits--how they bet, what their showdown
hands say about their ranges, ect.--as an indicator of their present and future table behavior than I would the stats the HUDs give me. I would rather go by how they are playing right then that day, because players are always changing things up from how they played previously, and if you are getting info from a HUD that this player either will or will not do certain things, but the player isn't actually following that pattern, why would you still go by what the HUD is saying?
