BetPot Interview with PokerSoftware

PokerSoftware.com recently brought you a look at BetPot, which fully automates some of the most basic functions of playing online poker on the Ongame and iPoker Networks. The software was created by a Russian developer and automates tasks in both ring games and tournaments. Want to auto-muck your cards? No problem; BetPot can do it. How about opening tables and then placing them on your screen? BetPot can handle that too. The program is still primarily in Beta testing, so it's constantly in flux. Recently, PokerSoftware sat down with the creator of BetPot to learn about the software and future developments.

PokerSoftware: What led to BetPot being created?

BetPot: In the beginning of 2008, I played 12 tables of six-m

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FishScope for Full Tilt Poker Sit and Go Players

by Earl Burton

The new buzz in the online poker world is for players not to take each other on in the multi-table tournament arena or even the traditional sit and go (SNG) game. Seemingly, the true measure in poker today is how well players can handle the hotly-contested wars at the Heads-Up Sit and Go (HUSNG) tables, where the action is mano-a-mano and a player has no one to blame for his defeat other than himself. Making the decision on whom to battle on the felt has been difficult, however... until now!

Many players will use some of the poker software tools out there such as SharkScope to review records of potential opponents. The problem is that by the time you find a player, pop open your SharkScope window, enter their name, review any background that they may have, and then return to take up the challenge, so

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How PokerTracker Has Helped My Game

by Earl Burton

For many years, I have played online poker and, to be honest, haven’t done too badly at the game. I also noticed, however, that there were players who always seemed to be doing vastly better than me and over several different tables at the same buy-in. I figured that they were using some form of poker software, but pushed the idea of using any out of my mind.

The reasons for that were simple. Much like one of my interviewees in an earlier article on PokerSoftware, I thought that using such devices was against the spirit of the game. In poker, I reasoned, you were pitting your skills and wits against your opponents’. Likewise, you wouldn’t have the same abilities if you were playing live (although I have noticed many players, including Gus Hansen, using digital voice recorders to save information they deem critical). This thought pattern