Poker Edge Review
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Have you got the edge over your opposition….Poker Edge to be more precise? Over the past few weeks I have been testing a piece of software called Poker Edge and found it to be more than useful. I think that as online poker moves into a whole new phase then it is imperative that the serious online players arm themselves with software that will allow them to not only improve themselves as players but also to identify weak players and weak games.
This process of finding beatable games and players is absolutely critical for success in online poker. True…..you have a vast amount of games to choose from on a very large number of sites but that still does not detract from the fact that you still need to find beatable games in order to make the game pay. There are an ever growing number of software products on the market but I was amazed at how effective Poker Edge actually is.
Overview
On my travels across many poker forums and doing research into poker software in general, I know that many players are not overly keen on using software like Poker Tracker and Poker Office or their equivalent. It takes time to build up worthwhile databases of information with these products.
You can sit down at a game at a new site that you have just joined and you will not have a single scrap of data on any of the players until you have been on that site for a while. This will force you to play your default game nearly all the time during the early stages and to miss making those key moves that you can only make when you have data on certain players.
This is where Poker Edge comes into its own because you can access a database of literally millions of players and have that data showing on your screen by way of a HUD.
Pros
It is not terribly hard to see the advantages to using this piece of software. Imagine sitting at a table and being able to see just what types of player your opponents are. Is that player to your immediate right a maniac who will be raising your blind almost constantly? Or are they the strong tricky type who will be raising your blind with the correct and proper frequencies?
Also the information is constantly updated in REAL TIME while you play which is a great feature of this product. All of your opponent’s key statistics are shown in a head up display (HUD) and it also classifies each opponent for you as well without you having to do it yourself.
It’s great to be able to see that there are three fish on your table who you have never played with before prior to sitting down at the table. But just like with other available tracking products, Poker Edge allows you to see how your opponents play by street and this allows you to see which players show more aggression pre-flop than post flop and which players will tend to win when it goes to a showdown.
In short then, almost everything that you could want from any tracking software can be found in Poker Edge with the added big advantage that the information about these players is already there waiting for you before you sit down to play. Even the price of Poker Edge is a bonus in my book with price packages starting from as little as $4.95 per month rising to $29.95 depending on the features of the particular package that you want. Finding good games to play in ALL the time has to be worth thirty bucks a month of anyone’s money in my opinion.
Cons
Of course no review would be complete without mentioning potential drawbacks as well but as far as I can see there are only two. The first is that you are somewhat dependent on the software having data on the players who are at that table but this really isn’t a problem either when you think about it because you can still select which tables to play on simply by going on which players have the most reliable stats.
The other drawback is that certain sites do not allow this software and this area is constantly changing and the best way to find out which sites support this software from those that don’t is by simply logging onto www.poker-edge.com where you will see all of the sites that will allow you to run it.
Overall
I have argued for sometime now that you can only get out of any piece of software what you put into it. You simply cannot expect any piece of software to play your game for you. If you persist in playing badly and losing discipline then no software can help you however good it may be. But online poker has reached a stage where you simply need help from somewhere. In my mind I see software of this sort simply as my “electronic number two” that is assisting me to become not only a better poker player but also a winning poker player and that simply has to be worth the effort and money.
