Pokerhands – making me VERY happy
I stopped using Pokertracker last year. It used to be an integral part of my poker life, recording all my play and providing me with HUD stats on my opponents, but I’d been weaning myself off it for some time. As I moved from LHE grinding to being primarily a NHLE tourney player, it was relegated to being a handy way to keep a record of my wins and losses, and by last summer I’d stopped using it entirely. Who needs trackers? I don’t need a steenking database to tell me how to play.
Well, that and the fact that they released a new version, and wanted another lump of cash for it, as if this was 1997, or something. People don’t pay for software these days, guy! We’re all about open source, don’tchaknow. Except the open source community and poker…. well, it’s not the most obvious marriage, so for a while, there wasn’t a great deal of free tracker software out there, and certainly nothing that worked.
I’m pleased to say that’s changing, and there are now a fair few open tracker projects, some of which even work! And by far the best of these, from a Moth’s perspective, is the unbelievably wonderful and lovely Pokerhands. Wonderful and lovely why? IT TRACKS BADUGI! Oh, happy day. And, get this – it even has a HUD. An actual, factual, functional HUD. Also, most of the other gizmos you’d expect from a fully-fledged tracker, including sweet graphing tools and a hand replayer. Colour me amazed, and delighted, and about to embark on an epic multi-table limit Badugi spree.
It also does 5 Card and Deuce-Seven Triple Draw, and boring old Hold’em, and currently works with Full Tilt, Pokerstars, and Everest. It’s still in beta, but it works like a charm for Badugi, and I see no reason to doubt it’s skills for the other variants.
Short version of post – I’m in love with a database.
Download it here – http://www.cartridgesoftware.com/
