To be really good poker player you must learn from your mistakes, analyze them and make improvements, because with experience comes the greatness. Here in this article we will present to you a great software - Poker Tracker. This software is just an awesome tool for every player to optimize his game and keep track of his playing history and results.

You can see how much money you are making hourly, see the flop, how many times you have made royal flush, or see detailed statistics from ring games and tournaments. The only catch, is in order for the software to work at its best is that it needs a history of about 20k played hands (which is a normal number, if you are seriously playing poker ) to be analyzed. Here are some of the statistics:

Vol. Put $ In Pot - this represents the percent from all your games, in which you have hands.
Usually the most common and worst mistake, which the beginners make is to play a great number of hands.
If you have a VP$IP of 35% or greater, then you must reduce the number of hands with which you are entering the pot.
VP$IP between 25-35% - you are “loose player”, the loose aggressive playing style may be really profitable, but use it if you are intermediate player, if you are a beginner or do not have a good amount of confidence go with the “tight player” style. Find your bottom border of cards, with which you are playing - maybe there are hands which you don’t need to play?
VP$IP of 10 to 20% - you are a “tight player”, you make a good selection of your starting hands
VP$IP under 10% - you play only strong hands or doubles. It will be wise to add some hands

pf raise - this indicator is used together with VP$IP, to give you more accurate representation of your playing style. So if your ratio of VP$IP/pf raise is something like 19/5, 28/12, this means that you are too passive and make a call with to much hands and you rise small. A “tight aggressive player” has ratio of something like 18/17 and 15/13
Lets analyze some random ratio, say 35/28. What this means ? Well it means that in 2/3 of the time, when you are place money in the pot, you are the riser. You are aggressive, you are playing many hands, but you don’t make the call, which is very important. This is the most important element of becoming a successful no-limit player - when you enter the pot, be the aggressor. This ratio will vary, but you must try to keep the pf raise at least 2/3 from the VP$IP.

folded SB/BB to steal - I personally fold 78% of the hands of the small blind and 65% from the big blind. I play 6max, but rarely play blinds, when a player from late position makes a raise, Although I know, that his hand is probably not good or as bad as mine, I simply fold and wait for better opportunity.
This is and one of the fundamental mistakes of the beginning players - they make the extra pay for the small blind thinking “well why not, it only costs me half a blind to see the flop, and I can get two doubles or triple and win the big pot” - this is wrong, don’t do it, why? Because how many times this happens in reality? Most of the hands do not deserve even to pay for a small blind, because the small blind is the worst possible position on the table for winning the big pot, but its easier to lose it.

For conclusion I will recommend to analyze your hands after each session, it will take only 5-10 minutes, but the results will be amazing. Look at your hands with the “hand replay” and think about:

• is this the best way to play it
• how you could save money
• where you made too small value bet