A few people have asked me recently why I am not active on the tournament circuit. To be honest I have absolutely no interest in tournament poker and certainly not when it involves travelling all over the place. I have got into my comfort zone of playing in my office and just firing up the computer. To me now, poker being played in a live game setting would be about as alien as England having a good World Cup and probably about as often.
I did go to see the Dusk Till Dawn card room in Nottingham in 2008 but that was purely business and nothing to do with actually playing. You would have to go back to 2003 to find the last time that I played poker in an actual casino setting. I have played private cash games since then and always done well as a rule but it is strictly online for me these days.
So if I simply cannot be bothered to travel the forty or so miles to Nottingham then what chance me ever getting to Las Vegas for the WSOP? I have never been to LV and have no intentions of ever going but you never know what is around the corner. Speaking of not knowing what is around the corner, I have just switched to using PokerTracker from Poker Office and even though I found it somewhat confusing, I am starting to relish the switch.
But speaking of trackers, someone asked me yesterday if I still think that they are important and the answer is that they are still a very powerful online tool. Even if you use PokerTracker for basic metrics like VPIP/PFR/AF then you will still be ahead of many of the other players who either do not know what these statistics mean or how important they are within the context of their overall online poker game.
I received a personal message from someone yesterday asking me if I could expand on trackers and how to interpret the data and I will be doing that in coming posts so watch out for that.
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