Datamining Online Poker Tables

By Thomas Kearns

Try to imagine you sitting down in a poker game with 9 different and complete strangers and instantly knowing what their game plan is. Imagine that you have knowledge of them equal to really sitting with them for hundreds of hours while carefully studying their moves. This is what the dataminers will let you do. If this program is going to be used alongside with the heads up display and other tracking programs like poker tracker, you can have scores of data from every online poker player flashed right at your computer screen. How does it work then?

If you have the dataminer on your computer, it will operate your own online poker table for you and will record the actions that the players do on their tables. Even if you are sleeping, your dataminers have the capability of watching more than 20 tables at a time. The information collected is stored into a database and other program's cache like the heads up display which will directly show all of these stats on your poker table online. Now, why do you think it is important to have data on every poker player?

Using the dataminer, you may be able to play 30 hands or more and make the conclusion that a player is very tight. If you had been datamining your sample size will be much larger and may in fact show you that the player is not quite as tight as you thought. If you have 30 hands, it is much better than having 0 but what does it really tell you? Maybe the player has not had any good cards just yet. With that, you cannot easily determine if that is the case as the samples are too few.

If you have been datamining all week long, you will probably have a few thousand hands worth of data. The data that you have may be able to tell you that the player that you have your eyes on may not be as tight as you first thought and not a good candidate to steal from. If you have a larger amount of data, it will be more accurate. With the use of datamining you will have good information on every online poker player that you come across.

Datamining is also very helpful for you if you use a poker table scanner for table selection. Having a lot of information on almost everyone on the poker table, you will definitely benefit in any available poker games online.

The professionals are datamining and know a lot about you. Shouldn't you have that same advantage?

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