Stud Software and Question for the Regs

FishSticks · #1 10-08-2007, 01:40 PM

So, looking at the general game selection out there for stud hi across US poker rooms - would any of you guys consider yourself stud regs/grinders (like, 10k hands/month plus).

Do you guys use PT? Is there a heads up display that stud players generally use, or do stats play little to no role in typical gameplay compared to NLHE?

I'm new to stud, and although I've done some reading and logged some hands, I'm very green compared to hold em. I've been a winner so far, but I'm trying to determine if there's sustainable good money to be made in stud hi in today's online poker climate. Is it more prevalant live than in casinos?

Any thoughts/insight that some longtime players could provide me would be immensely helpful. Thanks!

(oh, and I did read the sticky/links prior to posting here hehe)

RustyBrooks · #2 10-08-2007, 01:45 PM

I use pokertracker. I mainly play razz right now, though, which is 7 card stud low. Absolutely I find pokertracker useful, mainly for table selection/fish finding.

I use a heads up display that I wrote. It works with pokertracker, but only if you use postgres for the database, not access, which you can not do with the trial version of pokertracker (by the way, you can try pokertracker free for one month, so, why not)

If you buy pokertracker and you want to try my HU program, go here:
http://www.rustybrooks.com/Program/projects/poker/docs

FishSticks · #3 10-08-2007, 01:52 PM

Rusty, sweet - I'll check that out. It's cool you wrote it yourself, I'm assuming that sort of thing is tricky. I have PT for HE naturally, and I do run postgres (as I have over half a million hands myself in there, etc).

RustyBrooks · #4 10-08-2007, 01:55 PM

My program works for holdem, also. The simulator at the moment covers holdem and razz, and works similarly to pokerstove. The simulator is probably kind of broken at the moment, in that it might crash, but it won't hurt to try it.

There aren't too many option on the HU display, at some point I intend to let the user customize it a bit. It's definitely rough around the edges but I've used it for years.

roggles · #5 10-08-2007, 01:56 PM

stud8 has the softest games. A lot of players at 3/6 don't understand starting hand values.

RustyBrooks · #6 10-08-2007, 01:57 PM

Oh, and the HU display way really not tricky to write... The toughest part was making the display window transparent so you could see the poker stuff beneath it. The rest of it is just doing SQL queries against the postgres database, and I just had to figure out how PT stores all that stuff in there (in older versions of pokertracker you could actually figure out the SQL queries fairly easily, I tried in PT stud and it was more difficult)