Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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?

The dataminers will operate tables for you whenever you are away from your computer and will take note of every single action that the players at the specific tables make. Your dataminer would be watching at least 20 tables even if you are sleeping. The data recorded is then imported into a special database and other information such as heads up display that are directly displayed on your online poker table. The question now is why is it so important to have data on every online player?

You could play 30 hands or so against and opponent an think you know everything about them.. You know that they haven't played a hand yet so it means that they are a tight player right? The answer is perhaps. Having 30 hands are better than having 0 but what do you think it tells you? Perhaps the player doesn't have any good cards worth playing just yet. You can easily say that the sample is very small.

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.

Even the professionals have turned to datamining and would probably know a lot about you. If that is the case, wouldn't it be nice if you have the same benefit?

Be sure to check with your poker room of choice to see if they allow data mining before engaging in any such practices. Breaking the rules of your poker room may result in closure of your account in some cases.




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