We don't mind answering very specific questions about the differences between functionality of features of the two software products, but as a whole we would be doing yourself and the poker community a disservice if we made generalizations about which software is better. Feel free to rephrase your question by asking about a functionality that is very important to you to see how it differs from HEM, we would be happy to answer that!

On the bright side you will be able to try PokerTracker 4 before purchasing so you will be empowered to make your own decision, can say that you will have access to a free trial once PT4 is released and if you are feeling adventurous you can participate in the open beta shortly. This way, we can let PokerTracker 4 speak for itself, its our opinion that will be the best way to evaluate PT4 for most users.

Will it be possible to use my custom made PT3 reports in PT4?

Yes - it will be possible to import reports from PT3 (as well as custom stats and Hud profiles) into PT4. There may be some more complex reports etc which don't translate directly (if they use some specific function of the database which has changed) but we'll be on hand to help transfer things if that situation arises.

Watching this video, whats the disclaimer for ? (all features subject to change ...etc)
Its not like were going to sue.

The chap who is talking, you can hear his lips smacking as he starts to speak and you can hear him breath too, man.

Cant you get a Hollywood voice over, Morgan Freeman or someone of that ilk. Bung the cost on PT5

http://preview.pokertracker.com/blog...-global-graphs

I dont agree with your advisers, its simply not possible that it could interfer with play.

No worries, we will continue to work with third party add-on developers who wish to fill this role when they need our guidance.

PS: We have had many customers contact us to support issues for third party hotkey apps interfering with their poker tables even though we do not endorse or support the third party app, unfortunately these conflicts between the hotkey app and the poker table are more common than you would expect.

I'm just now starting to learn/play Omaha hi/lo. Should I wait to buy PT4 Omaha version, or purchase PT3 Omaha right now? Thanks.

If you purchase PT3 Omaha right now, you will get PT4 Omaha for free once it is released.

a GREAT note system...
Many player ask it on HM forums (don't know if they ask also in yours)

Just some random and unique features:
- change fonts
- change color of the fonts in order to visualize some notes instead of others
- auto open the HUD note system on the table in a specifical position

will u make it work under linux too?

We do not have plans to release a Linux version.

The last I checked, the tracker worked under Wine, but the HUD would not as the kind of transparency we use had not been implemented yet in Wine.

I haven't checked under WINE for ages, but PT3 used to work perfectly, which is no surprise given it's all C++ / wxwidgets? written for portableness etc. it was fast too. but then some new copy protection brought in and it wouldn't start anymore.

so 50/50 PT4 may work, depends what of the copy protection.

I gave up with Wine as there always seemed to be niggling graphics issues that I couldn't overcome. Shoving PT3/4 into a Win XP guest using VirtualBox (or similar) with Postgres on the Linux side works a treat. Unless the poker sites also bring out their clients in Linux I can't see a burning need for a Linux version of PT4.

+1 to Bolded

+1 This could be a great motivator if we could set up a weekly/monthly/yearly goal.

X hands, X profit, X hours played etc.

And PT could update with __% complete... or something to keep us on track of our pace. It would be great for prop bets too.

In that case, you need to keep on the lookout for when we are ready to discuss NoteTracker ;-)


Goals are not part of the PT4 development agenda, but they would make a nifty add-on from a third party developer since our database scheme is published and easily accessible!

ETA for new video?

next week, we are waiting for some alpha changes to be incorporated before the video is produced. Next topic pending alpha changes is ICM and hand range selection!

Wondering if Pokertracker will have an iphone app like HM2. This would be awesome to sync your last 50K hands and watch them on your iphone. Thanks

PT4 looking great so far from the videos. Good to see you taking suggestions from people here on the forums also, should make for a great product. Anyway, here are my suggestions...

-Better note taking. There should be a better way to organise all your notes on a particular player. Colour coding and ability to re-arrange the order they are listed (rather than just in order of when you wrote them like now) would be very good for a start. Also perhaps the option to arrange them in (customisable) tabs within the note window. Currently if you have more than 5 or 6 notes on one player it's very difficult to quickly find which information is relevant in the few seconds you have while playing a hand. If you could have a different tabs for preflop play/ river play etc that could be quite helpful.

-Currently the HUD doesn't appear till you have completed the first hand at a table, so you're without it for one hand when you join a new table. If you could make it so it appears when the first hand starts, that'd be great.

TT, you got PM

+1....Android App please

YouTube video exports can be seen on iOS and Androids phones and tablets, once you experience this feature you will see how it will change post-game analysis - in some ways it is much more convenient than any app we could create, that is why we made YouTube export the priority. Don't worry... your proposed idea has not been ignored, we have a very strong social media strategy we have yet to announce ;-)

Have you seen our second video? It contains an example of our alpha note editor which allows color coding, bolding and italics. Remember its still in alpha, we aren't done developing yet - and even when Pokertracker is released we plan to continue adding features to make your playing experience as smooth as possible.

That is not something that we can do easily, the reason why is (for the most part) all trackers get their information from text hand histories stored on your computer (and in some cases sent to your computer in other formats). This generally means we need at least one hand to populate the table with HUD data, and in some cases it may take more than one hand such as when you have not moved your processed hand histories or when you set your HUD refresh rates too high. RUSH was an exception to this rule, but as we all know Tilt isnt coming back soon :-(

Ah I had seen the video, but must have missed that bit first time around. Just watched again, yeah the note editor looks pretty good.

is it going to track Stud/Razz?