will the zoom graph (luv it) support sngs as well?

Yes - but I cannot go into greater detail at this time because we haven't show our plans for tournaments and SNGs yet.

There is a logic problem with the graphing model you propose. Cash and tournament graphs are separate in both programs, therefore what happens when your rakeback or bonus was earned in a cash game but it is displaying in the tournament graph? PokerTracker strives for accuracy - its an idea we have discussed, the flaws in the model have held us back in the past. It can give the player the illusion they have made twice as much as they actually have, it creates big problems even for experienced users who may not realize that there is no direct correlation between cash and tournament rakeback and bonuses. We will continue to look at this idea though... and if anyone proposes a better solution we will always be open minded - please note that "who cares, toss it in anyway, accuracy be dammed because HEM does it" is not a better solution ;-)

Modern computers have much bigger and faster hard drives than what was available in the past, as such we don't hear this request that often anymore; this issue appears to have been solved by the prevalence of larger hard drives and backup storage solutions. Rather then spending resources to code a multi-volume backup solution to help a minority of our users, we are working on features that effect the playing lives of as many of our users as possible. Occasionally this may let someone down when we dont include a feature that they wanted, this is of course unfortunate, but we do have the best interest of the majority of our users in mind. Have you considered getting a larger backup drive?

In theory we could create a graph using a new set of middle-tables, but that opens a can of worms were users would expect unified reports - and that is not possible without stopping all development and postponing PT4 for a year or longer. When PokerTracker adds a feature, we fully add it - we don't stop 1/2 way in, we do it right. As such we do not add win rate graphs without first creating robust report solutions, case in point the convergence of Omaha and Holdem data in PT4. We learned from this mistake in the past, we do not intend to make similar errors in the future. When we do not follow this development strategy we end up helping some of our users, while alienating more than before by not completing the feature so it matches the rest of the application. With all that said, I would agree that this is something we should look into for the future once it is time to rethink the PT4 interface - I am not promising, but it will be considered.

On the bright side PokerTracker works with third party developers to add middle market features when the need arises, graphs that combine both tournaments and cash games appear to be a good example of such a scenario, alon.albert is welcome to speak with us if he needs guidance. With that said, you will notice that PokerTracker does not force it's third party developers into exclusivity agreements, we believe that is not in the best interest of the poker community. Players should not have to chose which tracking application they want to use based on the exclusive add-ons, that is why PT4 includes the functionality of many popular third party apps that were not previously available to PokerTracker 3 users - we include these features without any additional charge. Pretty sweet

PS: you really do come up with some good ideas, please dont stop, keep firing away!


PT3 will continue to be supported. We supported PT2 for 3 years before the end of life for that application reached. As discussed earlier in this thread, if you purchase PT3 now you will get a free upgrade to PT4 when it is ready. Your covered!


On a separate note, I recently saw posts elsewhere which claimed that that PokerTracker 4 for OSX is a port from the windows version. This is incorrect, we develop for both Windows and OS X at the exact same time using a unified code base. The Mac version of PokerTracker 4 is an OS X native application, it is not ported from our Windows code.

The Windows version of PT4 will precede the OS X version of PokerTracker 4 slightly due to the resources required for support, but the OS X version is in development at the exact same time - we intend to release the OS X public beta shortly after the Windows version goes on sale.

I hope this helps.... keep the questions coming!

I dont know what HEM does or does not....so far I only have been a PT user :-)

But what I would like to have is a tracker program that shows me my "real" winnings even though I have to type them in manually. Lets say I play on FTP (which is not possible anymore unfortunately but for the sake of the argument) and I buy a cash bonus while grinding...the rakeback I get every friday is not the same as PT3 shows me cause I get a deduction....so lets say I made 1k on FTP playing over a month and should make 300 in rakeback (thats what the FTP stats tells me)...so my winnings should be 1.3k. In reality rakeback payments are only 200 but I cleared the 250 dollar bonus...so my account shows an increase over 1.45k for this month.

So why not make a special tab or whatever you use now where I can chose which stats I want to see there (or carry over) and also get the option to type in some numbers and descriptions myself... this way I can carry over my "real" winning while playing and add the real rakeback payments and cash bonus myself to see what my acutal winnings are. I know I probably can do that with an excel sheet but it would be nice if I can use one program for all.

Hopefully you get my point...if not...let me know and I will try again (again...I'm not a native speaker so its not that easy sometimes).

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Another question:

Any estimate on the price for upgrading the PT3 license to PT4...just curious what range we are talking about? Between $40-$60 or even more or less?

Advanced notetaking would be awesome. With features that is common in programs such as ms office.

Add 2 stats. Invested In the Pot and Voluntarily Invested in the Pot. It's not percent but dollar.

For example. I want to see how well I am doing when I call 3bet. It's obvious if u lose less than your preflop raise size was then it's profitable to call. I mean your raise $3 and if opponent 3bets to $9. If u lose less than $3 by calling then it's profitable to call.

Would be much better to analyze the game. Right now you must estimate with average. Sometimes I open 3, sometimes minraise etc. The same for everything like cbets, 3bets, 4bets etc.

Here's another one folks have been bleating about for years... transparent background on HUD stats?

I believe the logic error is in assuming we (the BR fanatics) want PT4 to track Omaha, or Holdem, or tournies or cash... we don't. We want PT4 to track Poker. That would beg the obvious question, why are cash and tourney graphs separate, after all it is just data that PT3/4 pushes out to a 3rd party program... right?

I really feel that PT is missing a huge incentive here.

Just make graph showing your total winnings (cash, tourney, omaha cash..) and then display rakeback and bonuses only in total graph to prevent confusion

That’s still a secret! We are not going to announce pricing until the software is about to come out for sale, that also means we cannot discuss ranges - except to say the upgrade will be very affordable.

Have you read our press release? Your wish is our command!

I need more information on this idea please so we can evaluate it. Do you see this as this a session stat, a player stat, or a hand descriptive stat? Do you see this used in-game, or in a report? Be as descriptive as possible. Keep in mind we do not want to bloat the database with rarely used stats, if a stat can be made and it is not widely used we tend to include this in our download repository instead. Thnx!
Keep an eye out for an upcoming HUD Profile creation video because we cannot discuss features that haven’t been announced yet.

Guys - we hear you, you are not falling on deaf ears. This is a concept we want to see as well. As I explained earlier, the Bankroll Management features that were under consideration 2 years ago was dropped so we could focus on other features that were a higher priority for the majority of our users at the time. Some of these features such as Tournament Detection and Currency Management are still exclusive to PT3 and are heavily used by our users… I don’t know why others haven’t tried to implement their own currency and tournament detection engines; perhaps it is because these are very complicated solutions to add? Although that specific bankroll management idea was dropped two years ago, it doesn’t mean we don't have other plans up our sleeves that we have yet to show you. I can assure you all that we are looking at ways to help you in this regard - but I must say, implementing such a solution is a lot more complicated than you all seem to think it is because we do not want to add a new feature that is not "feature complete", none of the most common trackers have this feature - yet….


PS: I've been sick the past few days, sorry for the slow responses. New video in a few days!

I understand why bonuses might be hard to include in graphs but not the rakeback part. Why would rakeback earned in cash games ever be displayed in tourny graph and vice versa? There's nothing ambiguous about rakeback. Every time you play a hand (or tournament) you pay rake and you get rakeback from it. Every penny of your rakeback can be traced to a specific hand or a tourny.


I have one request regarding the repository.. Please clean it up and organize it better. Maybe make some separate section where you only show "official" stats made (or validated) by the PT staff. Stats that follow the same standard as the built-in stats. Your current repository is full of crappy looking "home made" stats that often don't even work as they should.

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Oh yeah, looking good guys! Keep up the good work

Most rakeback tracking currently available is inaccurate because the methodologies of calculating rakeback vary so greatly from site to site. There must be a better way - that's all I can say for now.

Re: The Repository - it is our intention to better organize our custom stats, HUD, reports and themes repository once we switch to our new web platform for the launch of PT4. We agree! And thanks for the kind words....

Ok, that makes sense. It's a minor thing anyway, I'm sure you'll come up with something cool

Good to hear. Please consider the "official and validated" stats thingy. Maybe mark them with a gold star or PT4 logo or something.

Thanks for the answers!

what about making it possible to customize the hud you see on players depending on different factors:

* position. example: if a player is in the blinds, show his fold to blind to steal stat. example: show a a players ats stat only if he's in a stealing position.
* hand sample. there are stats that have a lot of meaning when you have hundreds+ hands on someone, but none when you have <100. WTSD for example.
* the street you are on: AF/CR/W$SD flop/turn/river for example..

regarding the reverse hud, i think it's an amazing idea.
i understand the performance concerns it could be just turned off by default and have a warning to it's usage. i'm pretty sure new high end machines could deal with it.

@ TT

at least for me I dont care if I can use "real" rakeback or bonus or stuff like that for graphs...I couldnt care less tbh...but i would really appreciate a possibility to document my real winnings in one and the same program and therefore not having to use excel or programs like that....just wanted to mention it cause I'm not sure its that clear (because of the graph discussion).

I hope you'll support sng well, HUSNGs (turbos and superturbors) require more love... a ton of players are playing them

Will PT4 be able to differentiate HUD profiles between a FR NLHE cash table, and a FR PLO cash table when one of those HUD profiles is set to default for that table type? The reason I ask is because PT3 can't.

This kind of thing would require information about the current hand, but PokerTracker uses information from the hand history file which is updated at the end of each hand. The middle "hand sample" request is a different situation, and I'll remind the development team about this request.


Details of tournament support haven't been released yet, but there are additional tournament functions planned for PT4.
If there is anything specific you'd like to see, please let us know - we're building PT4 based on what our users want and need.


I think that HUD functionality will be featured in one of the preview videos fairly soon and until that point we can't comment on specifics, but I will remind the development team about this (although it's something I've asked for personally in the past too).

Well, the sharkscope filters would be great (I posted them a few posts ago).
I got a PT3 license but always use HM so I don't really know if the feature I'd like to see are present right now in your software.
What I'm asking and I think most sng players will ask, is the ability to analyze them like a cash games... In HM many feature are available on for cash games and HM SNG support is far from decent

"you spoke, we listened"... and we're still waiting. I don't need a video, just confirmation of functionality or rectification of current PT3 bugs.

The development team are following this thread closely so anything already posted will have been taken on board. If you have any other specific requests please post them.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the ability to analyze them like a cash games" - tournaments are very different from cash games, and there are tournament improvements to come but if there is anything specific you want to be able to do please ask.


I'm sorry, but functionality isn't yet finalised and I can't give you any details beyond what has already been released.

Having the HUD be able to only show the last x amount of hands or only hands from the last x months would be nice.

You can have the HUD show the last X hands in PT3 - see the HUD Options tab.
The request for last X months, etc, has been made before but I'll remind the development team about it for you.

To help us prepare PokerTracker 4 for the public beta release we need your feedback on each of the features shown in the video below.

Go ahead, feel free to share with us what you like and/or dislike, we are listening to your comments and refining the development agenda based on the input of players like you.

Development of PokerTracker 4 is a collaborative effort with the online poker community; we cannot deliver the world class tracker you expect without your help. We need your feedback!

In the video you are showing great stats (similar to holdem vision).
I noticed that you are analyzing cash games... I'd like to know if all the stats shown in the video will be available to tournament players

Virtually all stats are available for tournament as well as cash - there may be a few odd exceptions, but certainly the vast majority are exactly the same.