I am often asked as a full time player and poker writer just how effective poker software is and programs like PokerTracker and Holdem Manager for example. Well firstly it needs to be said that these items are designed to keep track of your opponents and so this means that using them for free poker games are not really what they are designed for. But to answer this question properly then you need to come at this from another angle and a look at what happens and what has happened in the world of financial day trading is instructive.
In that field then the leading traders all use software of some description. Whether it be Bloomberg terminals or live feed with software like Indexia or whatever, speed of access is pivotal to how you succeed in this field and also as a poker player. But what needs to be underlined here is that in no way does any type of software or coaching automatically make you a winner and I really don’t care who this upsets or what type of coach you have.
There are just too many aspects to being a successful poker player to mean that any piece of software can make you successful. On sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk then you will have the option to play against any number of over 100,000 players at any one time. So it is obviously to your advantage to know how the people who are sitting on your table are going to play and what mind set they have and ideas about the game.
However there are just too many skills that you need to exercise yourself and a successful online player in my opinion needs two factors working side by side. Firstly they need their very own experience and expertise and they then need to marry that with very good software which then acts in the capacity of a second pair of eyes and ears. In the accelerated pace of online poker then this is a very valuable thing to have at your disposal because it is simply impossible to keep track of dozens of players at the same time when you are multi-tabling.
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