Pokertracker (www.pokertracker.com) rules. It takes all your hand histories for your games and parses them into numbers that get thrown into a database that you can then review, either through the Pokertracker interface, or, if you’re hardcore, MS Access. It allows you to review your own statistics, as well as numbers from your opponents. Why would you want to spend 55 bucks for some poker software? It allows you to find out a lot about the tendencies of you and your opponent.
I also use a free addon called Gametime+, which allows you to take the numbers of your opponents and overlay them on your online pokertables. It’s not exactly realtime, because you configure pokertracker to import hand history data in x minute intervals, but after 15 minutes at a table, you’ll have a few hands and you can start to get an idea of your opponents’ tendencies. I configure PT to collect at 3 minute intervals. It’s CPU intensive, so any more than that and it gets annoying.
I decided to do an export of some of the numbers I’ve collected over the past year or so that I’ve been playing online, in order to share them for discussion. They come out as a comma delimited file, so I’ve taken them and moved them to Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and published a sheet. Here’s the link – http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGHLHpEyOyBLftKMAk7D_ag. If you don’t have a gmail account, now is the time to get one. There are so many neat tools – between email, Docs and Spreadsheets, blogger tools, and the integration with your personalized home page, I can’t see how anyone can live without one. I’m in the process of migrating all my online identities to Google.
What’s the story behind these numbers? They are my generic PokerTracker stats for various limit and no limit ring games. All the stats are from my games at PokerStars.
I figured it only made sense to post numbers for limits for where I have at least 5000 hands per game type. It makes the numbers somewhat statistically valid. I have samples for other limits where I have lost a lot of money, or won a lot of money, but I only have 10 or 100 hands. Consensus seems to be once you start getting to 10000 hands . I’ll add them to the sheet as I get over 5000 hands for that limit. While I’ve read that 10k, 15k, 20k, or 100k hands are required before you get an idea of where you’re at, I think 5k is a good place to start.
Anyway, take a look at the numbers. My next post will talk about some of the specifics and what they mean.
