Been awhile since I've started a new thread so I thought I'd post some info on really useful software that I use to make me a more profitable player. And by all means if there is anything that you don't see here that you'd like to add go right ahead, as I am really not familiar with the tournament software available.

Okay first item is Pokertracker/Hold'em Manger. If your the least bit serious about your game and improving this is a must. PT has a 60 day trial so if you download it and use it well, it should easily pay for itself by the end of the trial. I'm pretty sure that HEM's trial period is only 2 weeks but both programs are excellent. For those who do not know, tracking software imports each hand you play into a database. A wide variety of statistics are extracted from all the information on each action, by each player in every hand. You can then configure the HUD(heads up display) to show specific stats by each players name right on the poker table. The software is also great for keeping records of all your sessions and you can run different filters for isolating specific situations to analyze your performance or the performance of others.

Pokertracker 3 is available at PokerTracker - Online Poker Tracking & Analysis Software Tool
Hold'em Manger is available at :: HOLD'EM MANAGER :: Online Poker Tracking and Analysis Software

Okay next on the list is TableNinja for Poker Stars players.

TableNinja is a really nifty program that will make multitabling a breeze for you. If you already play 4 tables it should enable you to easily handle 8. Before purchasing it for $25 I was playing 18 tables and it was often tough to keep up with the action because of all the clicking, not to mention I'd often have a sore wrist after a long session. Now, I barely use my mouse while playing and 24 tables is a breeze for me. TableNinja allows you to configure hotkeys to perform just about every action you will need while playing, and opening tables. All your bets, checks, calls, folds, and raises can be assigned to a hotkey. You can set hotkeys to increase or decrease your bet amount as well. You can also set predefined bet amounts on each street. I make my open raises 3x the big blind and add 1bb/limper and tableninja automatically does that! I have my post flop bet amounts automatically set to 70% of the pot. If I want to raise or lower that amount I just tap the appropriate key a few times. There is a hotkey for leaving tables, sitting out next big blind on selected table or all tables, adding yourself to the waitlist or joining tables. You can set tableninja to automatically sit you at the table when it opens and buy you in for a predetermined amount. One of my favorite features is that it automatically clicks your timebank for you.

A new addition to this software is the sit-n-go sensei which is still under beta testing but looks pretty good for sit-n-go players. From what I can tell it can open up sng's for you automatically, and some sng specific betting patterns. This program paid for itself in my first session with it.

TableNinja does have a trial version and is available at TableNinja - Hotkeys and Utilities for PokerStars.

There is a similar program for Full Tilt users called PokerShortCuts and is available at Windy Hill Technology LLC. I've never used this software but it seems pretty good. It is now compatible with pokerstars as well, which is very interesting as it could make playing both sites simultaneously quite easy. Hmmm... 48 tables... ahhh!!!!

Okay my next program is PokerStove. This is a great piece of free software and its useful to cash or tournament players. Pokerstove allows you to enter in your cards, the flop turn or river cards, and your opponents cards. You then hit evaluate and it pumps out your equity in the hand. Its really great for analyzing your play.

You can also assign ranges to different players in a hand. This is the bread and butter of this tool imo as it has taught me to think in terms of ranges and evaluate where I stand against my opponents perceived range of hands. Its very rare that we're ever able to put our opponents on an exact hand, but you can put them on a very narrow range.

When you look at your HUD and see a player at your table with a pfr of
3% do you know what that really means? PokerStove can help you with that. There is a cool slider bar, so you just slide it on over to 3% and 99+ and AQs+ get highlighted. Its not that intuitive though, so sometimes you may want to substitute some hands that you feel belong in that players range. For instance, you might decide that player would probably just limp 99 and raise AQo+. You can then key in that range for a player, key in your hand and see how well you stand up against that range.

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PokerStove: Poker Software and Analysis

Another cool program I just recently found is called All-in-Expert. Its kind of similar to pokerstove in that it deals with ranges but its just for preflop play. You put in the amount in the current pot, the amount you have to call all-in and define your opponents range, and the software pumps out a grid of all possible hands and tells you whether you should fold or go all in with each hand and it gives you your ROI against your viillains range.

This tool has helped me a lot in dealing with those super tight shortstack players that only play premium hands. I was raising them all-in with hands like AK and JJ which was actually a mistake. The only hands I could profitably raise them with were QQ+. Even when I raised first in to 3xbb and they pushed all in for 20bb I found that calling with AK was a mistake. The better your pot odds get, the more hands you can profitably add into your calling range.

Wow good post. I have heard nothing but great things about poker stove. I think now im gonna go out and download it and start using it. Thanks again for the post

i think its a nice tool. gotta check in in a while

thanks

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how often does poker stove slow your rate of play

I've checked out a lot of poker tools over the past year.,two that helped me is Tournament Shark combined with Tournament Indicator.Each one by itself is ok but combine the two and I can put any player on a tight range of hands.I use these in all SnGs and MTTs I play now.