Yesterday a friend got married, so we spent the day making small talk to old people and drinking to excess. Today I feel a bit ill.
So I’m staying off the tables as I can’t concentrate very hard. Haven’t neglected poker entirely though – I watched a couple of Stox vids by mbolt1, and they were both pretty good. I don’t think I learnt anything new though, but it did reaffirm that I’m not too far off the mark. At one point he talked about how he was doing just before getting coaching from Leatherass, and he was struggling at 25NL not because he didn’t know how to play, but because of tilt – just like me! (except I’m 10NL. details, details…).
Anyway, he had a fairly customised HUD and had a couple of things that looked interesting, so I decided to see what could be done about mine. I then realised he was using a tweaked version of kraada’s Advanced hud layout which is downloadable from the PokerTracker website. So I installed it;
At first glance it looks kinda crazy, but it’s not that bad. A lot of the useful information is in the pop-ups (the big black box), and rather than one strip of info (with one big popup), it’s now divided into three smaller sets, each with its own relevant pop-up. Information overload perhaps, but I think it’s worth a try to see how ergonomic it is.
The biggest improvement is something I’ve wanted for a while, and that’s betting stats (like call/bet/3bet %) in relation to position. I’ve shown it in the pop-up in that pic. Notice that the player in question (Glazyrin) has a good tag VP$IP/PFR (19/16 – it’s the first two numbers on the strip above his cards), but when you see it split by position, it seems that he’s completely unaware of position (although sample size isn’t quite enough to be really sure of that). At first I thought I was misunderstanding it since I rummaged through player after player trying to find someone who was very tight in EP, a bit looser MP and loose in LP, and I just couldn’t find anyone! I then checked my stats, and I was fine – in that particular session after 60 hands my VP$IP for ep/mp/lp was 8%/30%/49% (from a slightly loose VP$IP of 30% overall)
That was quite an eye opener. You assume anyone with ‘proper’ V$PIP/PFR knows what they’re doing, but when you see that their opening range is pretty much the same at any position it casts a whole new light on things!
