Darkened Software

This will be a good home project as it will get me to work with a lot of different technologies and it feeds into my second passion of playing poker.

Here is the problem with the current technology of poker trackers:

• Hud displays can not show much data and is of very limited value.
• They do not distinguish between how someone plays against you vs other players.
• They only break stats down by starting hand types which is very limited.
• They do take into account position but not the situation.
• They give some betting / folding averages on each street but do not take into account the texture of the board
• They do not account for the hand held at the time of the action, just the final hand on the river.

This limited information helps you play against someone a little bit and may even help you tune your game a little bit.  You can use it to pick off if they raise to much pre-flop or c-bet to much on the flop.  But it does not give you any idea if they just smooth call with AA pre-flop or what a min-raise on the turn means.

Sadly that is the information that makes you a ton of money and you really need to know to dominate someone.

So now I have to write a poker tracker that will database hand histories and allow me to create all the situational queries I want to dissect any one’s game.  I like it, I already have a Texas hold em engine in C++.  So I just need a c++ importer and situational tagger, a mySQL back end and most likely a c# front end.

The poker sites have made it harder to data mine on players as most of them no longer send you hand histories to tables that you are not sitting at.  But I should still get enough information if playing multiple tables at once to quickly home in on players I run into often.

For more poker info see my other blog at Darkened Poker