There are many different types of poker software these days but the act of using software to get an edge has been around for some years. In fact back when I had my first blackjack team, we used items like Shuffle Trak and Stanford Wong’s Professional Count Analyzer.

In other areas like the stock market for instance then real time feeds and programs from companies like Indexia have provided traders with the vital tools needed in order to get that vital edge. But I do feel that too many players rely on poker software too much and this applies to the other fields as well.

The best software packages in the world will not turn someone into a Wall Street Wizard. In the same way that Shuffle Trak and Count Analyzers cannot turn anyone into a hugely successful blackjack player. I have used Poker Office and a whole host of other different types of software. Poker Office is fabulous and really expanded my game but I cannot forget others as well like Statking for example and Poker Edge which also helped me tremendously and also SNGWIZ for single table tournaments.

But these items must be married with expertise and a good sound and solid game. I even know people personally who get seduced by fancy gimmicks in the belief that these are the be all and end all of success. In fact I even knew someone who was seriously contemplating re-mortgaging their home to trade options. They had no prior experience of trading options whatsoever but yet felt that the use of a fancy software package would be the Holy Grail for them.

In my experience, there really is only one Holy Grail and that is to work very hard. If you can do that then the software will greatly assist that hard work and make a fantastic addition to your method of operation. There has been a tremendous increase in computer programs being using in the world of Chess over the past few years. But once again, the best players in the world use Chess programs as an aid to their own analysis and not as a substitute for it.

There are only so many things that a human player can do and playing multiple tables and keeping track of so many different players on so many different tables at the same time is very difficult without using poker tracker software.

However though, playing too many tables with tracker software also has an adverse effect for the simple reason being that your HUD readouts will be seriously minimised and to a point where reading the data may become difficult.

What you have to remember is that online poker is played electronically so this means that electronic aids to human play are not only useful….they are essential. This is an area where the new technologically aware young guns have the edge because they are coming straight into poker with the correct and proper grounding for poker when it is played electronically.

So they often are able to improve into being very sophisticated and successful online poker players in a mere fraction of the time.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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