PokerTracker Adds Smart Tournament Detection

Recently, the popular tracking and analysis software PokerTracker released Version 3.07.2 Beta, which added a nifty new feature called Smart Tournament Detection. The feature does exactly what its name implies, recognizes what type of tournament you’ve played, what the buy-in was, and how much money you walked away with.

Also changing as part of the new Beta is the way your tournaments appear within the PokerTracker software itself. Text found in the PokerTracker forums explains the program’s capabilities: “No longer are you restricted to a small number of descriptions for your tournaments. Any number of flags and descriptors are available and can be used to classify your tournaments in great detail.” Accordingly, analyzing your results is a cinch.

The Smart Tournament Detection denotes single-table tournaments and multi-table tournaments. It includes whether the event’s speed was Turbo or Super Turbo and a series of “flags” will pick out whether it’s a Sit and Go, Bounty, Shootout, Rebuy, Matrix, Rush, Push or Fold, Satellite, Step, or Deep Stack contest. Each tournament type comes with its own abbreviation.

You can filter by flags, tables, seats, and speed in the new Beta and select the same options when importing and exporting. If taking a ride with Tournament Auto-Detection sounds helpful, then click on the “Tournament Detection” box in the Auto-Import tab. If you’re importing manually, don’t sweat, as PokerTracker still has you covered. Just be sure to click "Auto-Tournament Detect" when you do so.

A full step-by-step guide complete with images is available on PokerTracker’s website to help you turn on and off Auto-Detection and employ the program’s brand new Smart Tournament Detection capabilities: “You can invoke Auto-Detection manually for existing tournaments via the Auto Detect button from the Tournament Results dialog. The Tournament Results dialog is invoked from the Main Menu / Tournaments / Enter Hold’em (or Omaha) Results.”

In other changes in 3.07.2 Beta, Omaha EV is now given in the Replayer and winnings reports are now sorted descending. Various internal improvements were added so that crashes that have plagued the program for some can be averted in the future. A bevy of import fixes for the Ongame Network, PartyPoker, Entraction Network, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Bodog, Merge Gaming Network, and iPoker Network were also introduced.

Over 80 fixes to PokerTracker came to life in Version 3.07.2 Beta, which should make for a much smoother user experience. In the prior Beta, 3.07.1, EV calculations were given for Omaha and all-in EV graphs were added for the popular poker genre. Session-based currency also came into existence. Version 3.07.1 Beta was released on May 13th, about two weeks after Version 3.07 came into being.

PokerTracker comes complete with a 60-day free trial. If the program is to your liking, then it’s time to buy, buy, buy. You can either fork over the $89.99 purchase price for Full Edition and $44.99 for Micro-Stakes Edition or take advantage of our Free Software program and get PokerTracker free. All you have to do is sign up for a major online poker site, complete the requirements, and we’ll send you a license to PokerTracker on the house.

Head to the PokerTracker forums to learn all about the various Beta releases. Be wary that Beta software can contain flaws, so if you download the program, use it, and find an error or two, e-mail the site’s developers and they’ll recommend what action to take or incorporate your findings into a future release.

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