Pro Poker Tools: The Basics
Posted by Tom Coldwell
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I am definitely sure that you are the 1st video maker serving real good tips at this site. I'm not such a flatterer who always admire every single videos here in this site ;) Thx Tom,
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Thanks for the video yo. I finally figured out how to remove quads from the starting 100% of hands..... 100%!RRRR and how to say the bottom 50% of hands... 100%!50%. So simple, but I'm a noob with odds oracle :P
Note: You can also say bottom 50% of hands with 50-100% (this also allows you to do the middle 50% by going 25-75% for example).
Great video! Is there a video similar to this for how to use PPT or Equilab or similar for MTTs?
As for a vid on how to use tournament-specific software, I am unaware of one, but then I don't really follow tournament strategy. You'd probably be better asking one of our MTT guys - they are far better placed to let you know what is out there!
Hey Tom good video. I knew most of it but you helped clear some things up with the syntax.
I am a bit lazy but also confused on how to best construct opening/calling ranges. For instance when you use 28% opening range on the CO it doesn't represent the actual range. I saw in omaharanger they have premade "real ranges" but I would like to stick to ppt.
Maybe we can make a thread constructing some standard opening ranges for 10-70% and some flatting ranges 10-50%. I wanted to do this for a while but I'm unsure about my range constructing within ppt so it would be great if we can doublecheck each other with a couple of members.
If people are interested I'll start a thread by constructing some UTG ranges 12-14-16-18-20%. Maybe get a discussion going on what to put in or take out when going up and down this range. afterwards we can sticky this and all you have to do is copy paste it into your ppt.
Cool video Tom. As a PPT noob I'd love to see more of these vids sprinkled in from time to time.
Hi Tom. I have played poker for quite some time but I have never used any software to help my game. I am considering to do so, however. I have a few questions. I have watched some of your PLO live videos and noticed all the information you have on the other players. I suspect it isn't PPT that gives you these informations? Is it HoldEmManager? Another thing you might know is whether PPT and/or HEM can be used directly from a Mac computer? I'm from Denmark so if my questions are unclear please let me know so I can ask the question in another way. Thanks in advance. Regards, NocturnalX
In my live-play vids, I'm using PokerTracker 4 for my Heads Up Display with a customized setup based upon my preferences. It's certainly a hugely valuable tool, especially at low-stakes where there are SO MANY different villains in the player pool. Hold'Em Manager has broadly similar feature I think, but I've never used it so can't comment with authority.
As for whether it can be used on Mac, I don't know. I use PCs exclusively so have never had to find that out. My suspicion given the vast number of Mac users out there is that both PT and HM work on Macs.
I can tell you that PPT works on them though because it's an online application which I access through Firefox, but can equally be used through Safari, or Chrome. Just go to Pro Poker Tools and you can start trying it out.
Hope that answers everything. :)
Thanks, Tom. I appreciate the fast answers and it is certainly something I will look into. I am a winning player at 0.10-0.25 PLO zoom at the moment, but it seems as if there is a great chance to increase my win-rate by using these tools. Great videos by the way! Right up my alley. :) Do you by any chance plan to take on the zoom 0.25-0.50 field and making a video about it? If you do so watch out for Kiselevic1 - a pretty good russian regular. :P
Probably won't be doing anything on Zoom though, it's not a format I enjoy all that much (certainly not as much as normal PLO) so most likely I'll stick to what I know best.
Even tho i knew everything except the last part i found the video great and would like to see more of these kind of videos. A series with the more advanced features of PPT and how to use the program for analysing actual hands maybe?
I'll certainly have a think about potentially doing another vid on PPT where I use it to do a detailed hand analysis. Btw, you may wanna try watching a couple of Andre Santos' vids - he does a really good job of breaking hands down using very detailed simulations.
Ok that's fair enough. How about a video of how to setup Pokertracker then? I haven't bought it yet, still considering, so I obv. do not know if it is difficult to set or up if it is hard to figure out the different features? Is it also in Pokertracker you see ev and win rate curves? sorry for all these newbie questions just trying to figure how to proceed and how to develop my game. ;)
Before you consider it, remember that PT4 already has a wide range of short videos for almost every stat, function, and screen in their program. They can be found by clicking on the little green question mark next to the name of most default reports, and are available in the tutorials section of the 'community' screen. Not that I think it's a bad idea to do an overarching video about using the program and integrating it with your game, but if there is a particular function someone doesn't understand, there may already be a very clear video explaining it in the software itself. (Maybe on the website, too.)
And also, yes, it runs very well on Macs.
I have used HM1 for a couple years and bought HM2 when it came out but only had problems with it, hated it and flamed their support for some weeks about it. They answered with sarcasm, I soon switched to PT4 then and never looked back. I prefer it very much over the HM suite and am a big fan of PT4. However I think they are similar in function and self explanatory enough so that I do not have too big a desire for a video on either. I'm sure though that if you were to make one yours would stand out and open my eyes to features I have not used before, so looking forward to it in case you decide to make one.
What I would appreciate would be examples for useful note definitions to set up specifically for PLO in Notetracker, do you use any yourself? I found the freely downloadable ones from Jeff Hwang to be a great start but haven't come up with any additional one's myself.@ainec
Did you figure out how to import your personal notes from HM1/2 to PT4?
Notetracker is a part of PT4 that automatically creates notes on villains whenever they perform any action that fulfill the criteria of definitions that you can download, share or create and define yourself such as these for example in regard to PLO:
- 3Bets with Single-Paired, Non-A-A-x-x Hand
- VPIP with Unsuited Hands (Excluding A-A-x-x)
- 3Bets OOP vs Late Position Steal
- 4Bets with Non-A-A-x-x Hands
- Flats AAxx Preflop
- Raises Then Folds to 3Bet In Position
- Raises Then Folds to 3Bet OOP
The Notetracker module is fully integrated for free with PT4. HM2 offers a similar module called Notecaddy that you have to purchase separately. They basically do the same thing but Notecaddy has some additional fancy features like graphs in the HUD popup.
@papahook: if remember correctly I was able to import the entire HM2 database into PT4 including notes. I do not know a way on the top of my head how to export only the notes as I have not had HM2 installed for maybe a year now.
I was doing some simulations today and whenever I did KK- and 20%, etc PPT would come up with an error, can anyone help?
Great video though!
I figured it out, thanks.
I know it's a old video but this content is still so current. Fantastic content for anyone starting to learn PLO. Why isn't Tom still making video? All his videos have been so informative and easy to follow. Nice work man.
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