I’ve just downloaded the new PokerTracker beta – All-in performance charts have been added at last! Looks like I went through a lucky patch early on in my ‘career’, but it evened up recently. The recent unluckiness coincides with my tighter range I implemented in December, so I guess in reality that change in strategy was better than it appeared. Maybe I shouldn’t feel so bad that my cash games haven’t been as meteoric as I’d hoped…

I downloaded the beta mainly to add M to my hud (how lazy! It’s not like it’s a hard stat to work out on the fly), and while it’s not in PT by default, they describe how to add it here, but it required the latest beta.

The only other new things that are immediately obvious is a details page, giving an overall rundown all on one page, and having the HUD on the hand replayer. Not sure that the details page is that useful, but the replayer hud definitely is (although at the moment it’s hanging my computer, but then it is a beta…).

Update: Today was an MTT day – while trying to mess around with PokerTracker and failing to add M to the HUD (can’t be done apparently, despite that link) I was doing $0.25 tourneys while testing what would show (or not show) on the HUD. Once I found I couldn’t do it, I realised I was in the middle of two 45 player tournaments, and doing ok. I went on to place 1st in one of them, but bust out the other – massive prize of $3.49, but when the outlay was 25 cents that’s a nice bit of ROI

I then figured I might as well stick to the MTTs since it was raining, and randomly opened $1 tournaments (18, 21 and 45s). By the end of the day I’d played 13 tournaments (not incl the 25 cent ones), and only got winning places in the 18s (one 1st and two 2nds). Not a massive number of wins, but still an overall profit of $5.14 – compared to cash games not fantastic for 5 hours of on and off pokering, but still +ve, and fun, so whatever.

I’m mainly pissed off at the very last tournament – I was chip leader all the way up to the HU stage, and even to the point that I had half the total chips on the bubble, and then on HU I was the chip leader by 20k to his 7k. Somehow I still managed to hand them all over giving him the win.

• Penultimate hand;
  No Limit Holdem Tournament
  $1.00+$0.20
  2 players

  Stacks:
  BTN (7461)
  Hero (BB) (19539)

  Blinds: 200/400 Ante 25

  Pre-flop: (650, 2 players) Hero is BB T Q
  BTN raises to 1,200, Hero goes all-in 19,514, BTN goes all-in 6,236

  Flop: 6 T 7 (27,000, 2 players)

  Turn: J (27,000, 2 players)

  River: 5 (27,000, 2 players)

  Final Pot: 14,922
  Hero shows: T Q
  BTN shows: J T

  Hero wins 12,078 ( lost -7,436 )
  BTN wins 14,922 ( won +7,486 )

• final hand;
  No Limit Holdem Tournament
  $1.00+$0.20
  2 players

  Stacks:
  Hero (BTN) (12078)
  BB (14922)

  Blinds: 200/400 Ante 25

  Pre-flop: (650, 2 players) Hero is BTN 5 5
  Hero raises to 1,200, BB goes all-in 14,897, Hero goes all-in 10,853

  Flop: Q T Q (27,000, 2 players)

  Turn: 3 (27,000, 2 players)

  River: A (27,000, 2 players)
  BB says “gg”

  Final Pot: 24,156
  Hero shows: 5 5
  BB shows: Q 9

  BB wins 27,000 ( won +12,103 )
  Hero lost -12,053

I need to figure out if they were good shoves/calls or not. TBH I prefer to play the HU stage without too many of these – I’d rather see a few flops and whittle down their chips over a coin flip shove…