First of all sorry for coming in late. I was just listening to the podcast from 5/23 (yes a week behind) In any case I wanted to chime in on the PokerTracker discussion. I think everyone missed one of the most valuable uses of the software. It has absolutely nothing to do with other players. Use PT to look at YOURSELF. It has proven invaluable to me in that it allows me to go back after a game and dissect it as if looking through a microscope. You can go through every one of your hands and see how you played it. Even better you can sort by amounts won and lost and see where your biggest mistakes were (even in some of those big pots you won). What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? PT points them out for you. The insight that PT and other software of this type can give you can, in both the short and long term, can improve your game.

Ill leave the ethics discussions on some of the other features of the software for another time. I can certainly play devils advocate on this topic. Long story short, if the site you are playing allows it and it improves your game then you should probably use it. You can bet that others are.

Get it in good & cheers.

First of all sorry for coming in late. I was just listening to the podcast from 5/23 (yes a week behind) In any case I wanted to chime in on the PokerTracker discussion. I think everyone missed one of the most valuable uses of the software. It has absolutely nothing to do with other players. Use PT to look at YOURSELF. It has proven invaluable to me in that it allows me to go back after a game and dissect it as if looking through a microscope. You can go through every one of your hands and see how you played it. Even better you can sort by amounts won and lost and see where your biggest mistakes were (even in some of those big pots you won). What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? PT points them out for you. The insight that PT and other software of this type can give you can, in both the short and long term, can improve your game.

Ill leave the ethics discussions on some of the other features of the software for another time. I can certainly play devils advocate on this topic. Long story short, if the site you are playing allows it and it improves your game then you should probably use it. You can bet that others are.

Get it in good & cheers.

great point