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Monday, 11 September 2006
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Automatically watches your game and offers instant odds, statistics, graphs and analysis.

When I first heard about Poker Office I was skeptical about how effective the stats they provided would be. One sit & go later I was sold! After about 20 hands I could see pattern emerging on each player that gave me an advantageous insight to how they played. Any good poker player consciously or sub-consciously notices pattern in the players, but having these patterns displayed next to them made it so much easier. The best unexpected information it provided was on my own style of playing. Sometime we all try to mix it up, but Poker Office provides a great warning if your game starts to go sideways.

If you play online poker, and want to increase your win-rate, PokerOffice will help anyone from a novice to a seasoned player.

PokerOffice works by copying all of the information from the dealer in the chat box on your typical poker site -- this includes who checked, bet, raised, and check-raised from which position, with which cards, and in response to which situations. Poker Office determines the cards of all those who did not fold by reading the dealer report at the end of the hand, though this report does not include those losing hands which were mucked at the end. Poker Office, however, immediately retrieves the hand history file and records the cards that were mucked as well. In fact, it displays these cards immediately after the hand next to each player -- this real time information is invaluable for determining how your opponents just played the previous hand. As you can tell, programs like Poker Office can provide you with an incredible amount of information on your opponents tendencies, and this information is available to you in real time.

Some of the Useful Stats Provided are:

VPIP% -  The percentage of the time the player Voluntarily Puts Money Into the Pot.  In other words, how often does the player pay money to see the flop.  The "Voluntarily" part means that times when you are the Big Blind and see the flop "for free" are not counted in this percentage.  In limit play, a good player will have a VPIP of 20% or below.  The player mentioned above has a VPIP of 92%!!!  When I am seeking out opponents I want them to have a VPIP of 30% or more.

PFR% - The percentage of the time the player is the Pre-Flop Raiser. This gives you a sense of their aggressiveness before the flop.  A good player will be somewhere between 6% and 10% in the long run.

Flop-Turn% - The percentage of time the player who has made it to the Flop goes from the Flop to the Turn, in other words doesn't fold on the Flop.  A good player will be from 55% to 65%.

Turn-River% - Naturally enough, the percentage of time the player who has made it to the turn goes from the Turn to the River, in other words doesn't fold on the Turn.  The percentage for a good player should be 10% to 15% above his Flop to Turn percentage.

FTRB% - The percentage of the time the player Folds to a River Bet. For a good player, this should be pretty low, say about 10% of the time. (This is because as a good player, except when you are on a draw, you only make it to the river when you have a good hand.)

FlopAggr, Turn Aggr, RiverAggr -  This stands for the player's "Aggressiveness Factor" on the Flop, Turn, and River respectively.  This is not a percentage, but a ratio...  (Bet % + Raise %) / Call%  The aggressive player will be betting and raising more than he calls.  A good aggresiveness factor at any juncture is 2.0 or higher.

FBBToSteal% - Percentage of the time a player in the big blind folds to a steal attempt. (A steal attempt is a raise from the button or the seat just before the button when no one else is in.)  While this is controversial, we believe a good FBBtoSteal % is about 75% or higher.

ATTSteal% - Percentage of the time a player tries to steal the blinds.   This is also controversial, but we'd like to see a percentage of 20% to 30% in the long run.

 
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