Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em

Yeah, I used PT2 for three years, then I gave HEM a try – and never even opened PT since then … HEM is the nuts.

Btw – afaik Poker Crusher is no tracking software in the original sense but a data grabber which runs in the background and steadily collects hands from numerous tables at a given limit – to build a database from opponents you never personally played against. The problem is, that at least PokerStars strictly forbids the use of tools Poker Crusher (it is even mentioned by name in their policies). Don´t know about the others but I guess it´s the same …

- Tack -

I too use HEM now, after years of PT 2.  In fairness to PT I did not try PT3, which I hear is very good, but HEM is the nuts imo, I like the interface better and the HUD is far better than PAHud was, it's not even close.  I'm very happy with HEM.

I work for PokerTracker and don't use HEM (just to be upfront) but PT3 has improved hugely since a year ago so comparisons from then really aren't applicable any more.  I won't 'advertise' – I bought the book and I'd like to be able to continue to use this forum.. 

Cake recently changed their stance on trackers and PT3 will be adding support as one of the next couple of sites too.

If anyone is having problems with PT3 (or wants help with it's use) I'll be glad to help, although you would be better visiting the official website/forum (I won't post a link as I'm sure that would be frowned upon, but it's not hard to find).

Post edited 11:31 pm – June 23, 2009 by Mike F

Pete said:

Although PT3 is quite a jump from PT2, it lacks the intuitive interface of HEM.

I upgraded to PT3 before I had ever heard of HEM…so I have never used HEM and therefore can't compare the two.  I am only moderately computer literate so initially I had a real problem figuring out how to configure the HUD…but I was persistent and it took about a week and I finally understood how to “program” the HUD and then found it to be a very flexible and useful tool.  As you move up in stakes and different stats become important it is flexible to add or subtract stats as you need.

Post edited 6:35 pm – June 24, 2009 by WVHillbilly

Hey WhiteRider any way to get PT3 to give a report on my 3-barrel stats.  In the section on line balancing (sorry don't have the book with me so no pg number but it's at the end) the authors mention looking at your 3-barrel attempts to figure out how often you do it without a made hand.  Just thought that since you're the PT3 expert you could come up with a fast and easy way to calculate this number.

Thanks for any help you can give.

BTW I own HEM and PT3 and I haven't used HEM (except at Bodog) since PT3 solved all the early crashing problems.  For me at least PT3 > HEM so I always recommend people try both and decide based on their own opinions.

Getting only the hands where I 3-barrel is the first part but doing some analysis on how often it's done as a bluff vs. with a strong hand is what that particular section is discussing and what I'd really like to get out of the software.

Since this directly relates to a section of SSNLHE I doubt there should be a problem with doing this here but if so just delete my posts and I'll take it elsewhere.

Well the particular one I'm talking about here would be the 3-barrel line described on pg 294 of SSNLHE.  Basically what I would want to get out of this filter is how often I take the bet-bet-bet line with TP or worse and compare it to the total number of times I take that same line.  In other words I'd like to get the percentage of times my bet-bet-bet line is with a weak hand for that line.

If you read 294-295 I think what I am asking for will make sense.