Poker Tracker 4 Review

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PokerTracker4 is one of the most famous poker programs for collecting, analyzing, and displaying statistics. The software is suitable for any poker player, as it supports all popular disciplines, game formats, and poker rooms. You can download Poker Tracker 4 and use it for free for 14 days without restrictions.

If you are just starting out, you can buy the low-stakes version and upgrade later. This is available at any time. However, the price will be slightly more expensive ($44.99) if you buy the "unlimited" version right away.

Data on all actions at each poker table is saved by the poker room in the form of a file that can be uploaded to PokerTracker 4. It's called "hand history." Usually, this is a *.txt file, which indicates when and at what table the hand was played, who took part in it, each player's stack, all the actions per street, the final pot, and the winner.

The value of this tool is difficult to overestimate. During the session, with a quick glance at the HUD indicators, you can almost instantly understand who you are playing against. The decision-making process is greatly simplified, meaning you can play more hands per hour without losing winrate.

By applying filters to any of the reports, you can dissect any situation into separate elements. Standard filters are located on the left side and include games, time, stakes, sessions, positions, etc.

PokerTracker4 allows you to create or import your own filters of any complexity.

For example, breaking the game in position in a 3-bet pot into situations when the opponent places a continuation bet and when he checks. Or select only the spots where after the blinds, the flop comes without an ace.

The statistics displayed in the Heads Up Display can be fully customized using a special editor. If you are experiencing difficulties with creating a HUD, you can use the standard profiles provided by the developers.

HUD and pop-up customization has always been problematic in tracking tools, but the developers of Poker Tracker 4 have solved this problem by adding a friendly drag and drop function. This makes it much easier to add stats in your HUD.

You can add new stats by downloading from the website (download custom statistics). Or create the desired stat by yourself. However, this is not easy, and we won't cover this topic in this introductory review.

The statistics displayed during the game will always remain clear and orderly thanks to the vector scaling technology. When the table is resized, the test changes proportionally, using a special graphics rendering engine.

Of course, the built-in equity calculator can not replace Flopzilla, but it's enough to run basic calculations. For example, you can quickly determine the equity of your hand against the expected range of the villain.

he calculator can be launched directly from the hand replayer. The fields will be automatically filled with your cards, flop, etc. If the opponent's hand is unknown, a random range (that can be adjusted) will be set.

The main difference between Poker Tracker 4 and its main competitor, Holdem Manager 3, is a free set of additional apps: NoteTracker, ICM calculator, LeakTracker, for which you will have to pay in HM. And also a Mac version.

DriveHUD 2 is a next-generation HUD and database software. It was designed by professional poker players with a deep understanding of users' needs. Since the launch of the initial version back in 2016, software developers have received much feedback and suggestions from customers. Many of them have been considered and implemented into this new and improved release.

Hand2Note is an advanced software for tracking hands and processing poker statistics, suitable for beginners and professional grinders. The tracker contains a set of general tools present in similar programs and many unique ones. We will discuss those in particular in our review.

Go to Statistics. Set Player to player (and poker site) to review. Set Report to Summary. Set Group By to Session. If you have many sessions, then set Filters as necessary. You will now have a list of sessions, that was played, and a summary of each statistic below it. Right click the list, click Configure Report, and then add, remove and organize filters to your preference. Make sure, that Hands For Session is selected.

Select the session, that you wish to review. If you review your sessions daily or often, which you should, the session of interest will be the last session. The hands, that was played in that session, will be listed below. Set the drop down menu to All Hands. You can now select hands of interest. This is done by right clicking i hand, go to Tag Selected Hand and clicking Review.

You will probably want to review hands with big pots, won and lost, and other specific hands, that could be interesting. Especially those, that has a big impact. You can use the Date, Won and Hole Card controls to change the sorting order. Hands, that were marked for review during the game will already be tagged for review. This hand will be tagged for review.

You can also use More Filters to query the database for hands with specific action. An example of this could be hands, that involved 3betting, raising flops and river bets. You can use Quick Filters to develop a valuable collection of quick filters. These can also be used for more in-depth database analysis at a later time, when there is 25.000 hands or more hands for such an analysis.

When you have flagged hands to review, then open the tags drop down menu and select Review. If other tags were selected, then deselect those. The hands below will now be those hands, that has been tagged for review. Sort them by date. Select all. Right click and click Replay Hands. You can now replay each hand and find key spots. The purpose is to find the most profitable action in such spots by assigned hand ranges and calculating expected value for possible lines of action. The stack sizes, hole cards, pot size and pot odds are helpful.

When you found an interesting spot, where the player might have made a mistake in terms of hand reading or action, you can enter range of hands for players into EquiLab and calculate the equity for each player instantly. This equity is the chance of winning for each player at this time in the hand. The can be used to determine the expected value of an action.

In this example we can see, that the player in the small blind needs 39% of equity to make this call, but only has 27%. However, he might not be looking at calling in this spot, because of his position, so another option could be calculated: Would a raise be profitable? It depends on the player types, their ranges and their expected reaction to a raise. The answer needs an expected value calculation. This calculates the expected value of a raise, which is based on the chance of winning and the amount of money won, when they call, the chance of losing and the amount of money lost, when they call, and the amount of money won, when they fold.

I recommend, that the value of each mistake, that is made in specific spots, from the point in the hand where the wrong action was taken, such as a bad raise or call, is noted into a spreadsheet and summed up together with the other mistakes for the session. The value of value is interesting, because the amount of won money for the session can be held up against this value of mistakes and serve as a kind of indicator of the current skill level of the player. The goal is to minimize the amount of mistakes during play.

Like summing up the value of mistakes, it is also of value to know, where there was potential for improvement. This is almost always related to raise sizes and value bets. The goal is to maximize the amount of value, when ever it is possible.

I recommend, that you review each session, that you played, after a good nights sleep, so you can conduct the review with a fresh mindset. Reviewing poker hands should be done regularly and be a part of your poker study routine. The purpose is to maintain a humble student and keep learning and improving your skills and poker strategy. By studying your own games, you build a strategy around the games, that you play, which is more effective than watching other peoples games from poker training sites or entertainment poker streamers.

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It has become the norm for serious online gamers to use different poker tools and software to get better results. Some of these tools are used off the table, and some tools are specifically designed to help players make real-time decisions. However, tools such as Poker Tracker 4 can help you make real-time decisions and do a game analysis.

If you are a serious poker player and have been in the game for a while, you must have heard about expressions such as HUDs and tracking software. However, our Poker Tracker 4 review will answer all your questions if you have no clue about these expressions.

Every time you play an online poker game, you can have the tracking software running in the background. The tool will collect valuable data, record all your activities, and collect data on your opponent. The type of data this software will collect is:

However, this is just a small sample of the overall data a Poker tracking software collects. The best thing about this software is that it will work in the background quietly and no one will be aware of its presence.

This information is critical for online Poker players, and once you have a large hand sample on a player, you will be able to tell exactly how that player plays the game. You will also know how aggressive the player is before the flop, their pre-flop 3-bet range, and how often they continue to bet when they are the original raiser.

This is where the Poker Tracker 4 software comes into play, as the tool comes with a HUDS (Heads up display) feature. This display will show different numbers next to VPIP, 3-bet, and PRF abbreviations. These numbers are percentages; for instance, if a player has a 23 % PRF value, this means that all the hands they played raised 23 % of them.

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