Poker Office 5

Analysing your opponents and yourself.

Recently Upgraded Poker Assist Software now has even more in depth-resources to build your game based on your own experience at the tables, while improving the user interface.

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Review by Marty Smith and SRCPoker:

During beta testing of Poker Office 5 it was obvious there have been improvements to the software, especially with the HUD functionality and the speed of procession archived hand histories. Some forum members though are still less than impressed with PO5`s customer service, Poker Stars compatibility issues and the annual license fee. These three things are keeping it from making a major cut into the market of Hold'em Manager and Poker Tracker.

PokerOffice 5 is an excellent resource tool that allows a player to improve his game while developing the opportunity to compete with the knowledge of a more seasoned player. But this recently updated version (2) program is far from being a poker assist tool for novices as its wares have been touted for some time now amongst many experienced players. You rarely find anything but positive comments about Poker Office it the forums and that speaks volumes to be sure. In recommending Poker Office to players who want to improve their game, and take it poker office seriously enough, you may find some of these features as beneficial as I have to my game. Poker Office offers a Free Trial download - click here.

The Live Tracker feature in Poker Office gives vital stats that can help make decisions during an actual game. PokerOffice will track multiple stats on each player you are up against including Saw Flop Percentage, Money Won, Pre Flop Raise Percentage, Flop Raise Percentage, and Fold River to Bet Percentage. These stats allow the user to categorize what type of player they may be up against and decide how to play a certain hand or situation. Now besides the stats tracked on my opponents, Poker Office also shows hole card hand rank which reminds a player of the true strength of his situation.

Live Tracker comes with a table overlay function which shows specific data of opponents and collective table statistics grouped around an opponent’s player name or icon. As with most overlay programs, this numeric array does limit the functionality of poker table resizing and given the poker office screen overlay numerous digits to read can also make the display a bit of a squinting exercise. Poker Office makes it somewhat more readable All Overlays make for crowding of small digits - something to get used to for sure. by attaching a tiny profile icon, but to me, it’s the most challenging part of using the software. It’s simply something to get used to for sure. In regards to those profiles though, the user can actually adjust the settings, essentially making up his own categories of opponents, but if you are a novice, its best just to leave the settings as is.

This function also allows you to see your pot odds and outs with the hands you do play so you can make more potentially correct decisions in the heat of the moment. You just have to learn to zoom in on the right numbers, quickly. With practice, it should become second nature. In a sense the Live Tracker offers up essential knowledge to keep the user competitive with more seasoned players and can offer up a serious edge over the other weekend players you may find on the felt. Of course its strongest use is for ring or cash game analysis with on-the-fly data mining, profit and trend graphs which have layers of deep analysis available.

Poker Office is a deeper-use tool than described thus far though because it can really help any player improve his game by analysis after the fact too, utilizing key features that really show you some clear cut leaks you might have in your game.

In particular a starting hand review that allows for true results of how you may have fared with the starting hands you chose to play. No justification, no excuses – straight up results. This can be extremely helpful in determining which hands a player was playing too strongly. For example a look-good, but really, not-so-good starting hand like KQs. It also shows how many times a user has won with any particular hand played and exactly how much money was won (or lost) in total.

With starting hands too, Poker Office also shows the bottom line results when comparing them to the position in which you played the hand at the table. This has the potential to be one of those glaring statistics that shows straight up how playing proper position effects the outcome of any given hand over time. Certainly this is one of the best ways for rookies to learn the need to tighten up their game and cut out poor play from mediocre positions. Add these two features with the hand analysis and profit graph and it becomes easier to pinpoint vital leaks in your game and fix them.

Speaking of graphs, Poker Office serves up history visuals in colorful graphs that you can use to quickly review your games by ring or tournament structure and apply moving averages to your results. They are in detailed enough presentation to convince any passers-by you are actually working on your 401k strategy for the next decade. This is some serious introspective here, to be sure.

One of the most useful and underrated features included with PokerOffice is the replayer. The Poker Office Replayer allows a user to watch any game or even a tournament they have played in by dropping in the hand history. If you are one to self analyze and want to do it faster and in a easier to read graphical sense then there is no more reading hand histories or searching for the hands to review. If you have ever done that, it is akin to getting physically sick in front of a microfiche monitor or one of those jumpy video games. Now you can simply play each one through the replayer and watch step by step, how the hand unfolded, while quickly moving from hand to hand at the click of an switch.

Poker Office is simply one of those standard tools for today’s player that truly wants to advance their game, build a bankroll and become competent against the toughest of opponents. With a tool like Poker Office it simply allows the user to play a better poker game without the countless hours of reading study that most don’t have the time or patience for. Software like this allows for a lot more enjoyment of the game whilst letting novice players keep this hobby - a profitable hobby.

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