If you want to get the best out of PokerTracker then you are going to have to play so that your statistics are meaningful. I didn’t use any kind of tracker program for ages until about 2008 simply because I site hopped too much. I have done numerous different things during my poker life but a very rocky and dangerous spell at $25-$50 left me feeling somewhat spooked at playing high-stakes poker and without going into too many details, this was when I decided to site hop.
I simply did not want player’s data mining me or sharing information with other players and I was on my own at a level where I shouldn’t have been on my own. Back then I was blinded by visions of grandeur but a rapid changing of the guard so to speak left me lagging behind the very best players.
Still…….no point in crying over spilt milk and if there is one thing that adversity has always taught me is that it is a prod in the right direction. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it were not for the bad times. I remember some years ago when I was a very keen Chess player and was almost master strength. The novices who I played and beat (usually workmates) were so enamoured of my ability as a Chess player that they often remarked how I must not have lost hardly any games in my life.
This statement shows a lack of understanding of how one becomes good at something…..you become good by losing a lot and then learning from it. I knew in 2008 that I was finished as a high-stakes player even though technically I had never really been one. There is a world of difference between playing high-stakes poker and being a high-stakes poker player. In 2008, it was becoming increasingly evident to me how online poker was becoming more and more technology minded.
You can choose two three paths with PokerTracker and the use of it. You either are ignorant of its use and if you are then at least reading this has been educational. If you are ignorant then I hope for your sake that you never stick your head above low levels. Or you could become very knowledgeable and then look to site hop to avoid the better players like I did. The downside to this is that your sample sizes for many of the metrics if you are using it never get large enough to be accurate but the plus side is that your opponents stats on you will not be conclusive either…..hence the reason for hopping.
The third option is to stay on the same site and simply amass a highly formidable database and online poker these days is based on information retrieval, storage and accurate use.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson plays poker at www.pokerloco.com and you can join him there quoting bonus code DEAN600.
