So, even though I think stats, or more specifically, visualizations of various stats are more useful to plug holes in your game, more so than determining a style as such, and these stats aren't really the one's I use to analyze my game, more the graphs of certain other stats by position, hand strength preflop etc, iI here lay my poker Soul (as far as these numbers can represent) for all...
And I dont include the BB/100 stat for tournaments, as I dont see it as relevant as it is in Ring games, well... in my style of play anway, cos I do vary with stage of tournaments (eg: it increases filtering hands where there are antes > 0)
I filered time-wise for 'this year'.
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VP$IP PFR AF WSD WSDW Total Hands
Tournament: 27.03 12.37 3.21 31.56 48.57 25,817
Ring: 29.97 15.97 3.86 34.29 51.88 16,391 BB/100: 1.944
Tournament field size ranges from ~500 to 3000+, I didnt note the average.
Ring is also filtered for 6max, as the vast majority of my ring games are 6 max, and this skews the stats somewhat. And most SnGs I play are HU, and theres probably not much value in including those stats.
These come from 2 sites, even though i have accounts at others and still occasionally play some there I dont import these site's data (when first building a roll I was a bit of a bonus hunter
)Not using PT, I hence dont use PAHUD, but at one site I play i use another profiling app that provides exactly the same info, and I mainly use it for only current session (convergence is a problem IMO).
One of the reasons I use Prospector is I like it visualization options, but also I write Poker Bots, and the university of Alberta (who publish the s/w) are the biggest University based Poker AI research dept, and I like to think chosing it supports that research.
Yes, you did read correctly, I am an avid Poker Botter.
I don't however use them on poker sites, but in competitions ran for machine v machine, and man v machine poker (and cos I love doing it). So I suppose really it is 99% a 'poker brain' as there is not a single line of code to interface it with any poker site client software, only the competition game protocols, a lot of which match Poker Academy's protocol for writing custom bots (PA is a poker simulator/trainer also developed by the UofA based on some of its most advanced Poker AI and Player modelling techiques, which actually does a fairly good job of building a profile of you when you play it, especially over a decent period of time! Also makes it perfect to use as a testbed for my own poker AI
Although I do know (not IRL, but online) a number of botters who set them lose on sites for real$ and there is some pretty scary stuff going on out there. But most bots are losing and imo dont really harm the game. Even a break-even or very slightly -EV bot can actually make large sums over the period of a year though!
Its not the kind of thing many people could do or even be bothered doing, so you are not likely to come against this yourself, but there are some disturbing techniques for cheating online poker....
If you want to take the red pill.... I can post more about this later
