I think Smart Buddy is a very good and usefull piece of software. Table Shark has potential but needs some improvements. I believe they recently released a new beta for Table Shark though, I haven't tried that one yet but I'm planning to do so later today. I haven't tried any of their other products. Support usually responds quick and professionally and is open for suggestions. I do feel there could be more frequent updates though for the above mentioned pieces of software. Usually the time between updates is 3+ months, while again, I think many improvements can be made (especially on TS).

The Table Selection Tool market is really on the move right now, I feel there isn't really a market leader in this area yet (every tool has some major shortcomings so far imho). If one of the developers sets it's mind to it I feel they could fairly easily take over the market. I think this market is also much more profitable for a developer then the Tracker market. Many players are willing to pay monthly subscriptions for a good piece of Table Selection software. I definately know what I would do if I could do some programming .

Ok, I've been testing this for the last couple of days now. Some things are very good, some not (yet) and there seem to be some Bugs. The most important things I'd like to point out:

Good:
- PT integration import speeds are very fast
- Downloading of tables from server is fast
- Customized table scoring

Bad:
- Customized table scoring, while I like the option being added I'd like to be able to give scores to certain players matching certain criteria and THEN base the table score on the total of the individual scores of the players sitting at the table. This is important because if you only use table averages a couple of nits at the table could really bring the total VPIP and PFR values of the table down while there still could be some major fish sitting there. This way you could let nits and/ or sharks influence a tables score by giving them negative values or you could chose not to let them influence the table score by just giving them a "0" value as player score. This way only the fish (positive scores, ie "18" or something) influence the table scores.

Bugs:
- the PT integration import tool seems to crash a lot when the tracker is importing hands at the same time. I've had this problem with PT2 AND PT3.

Suggestion:
- It would be nice if there's an option to"mark" the tables i'm already seated at.

Keep up the good work, looks promising!

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PT3 has its own built in table selection. You are going to have a hard time competing with that. If you want to make any money, add HM support.

TableShark will be competitive in at least one way: it's cheaper than PT's tool.

more pokersits like pacific poker / everest poker please

I have Smart Buddy and generally like the program even though it's buggy and has it's flaws.
Please fix the problems. I've posted about them when I first got it but will mention them again.

Clicking the table in the smart buddy client to try to go the table generally doesn't work (at least not on PokerStars for most font sizes in the lobby).
It tries and tries and then can't find the table.

On the Smart Buddy client it will frequently list the wrong table for a player. Usually it is off by one alphabetically (within the stakes) so if I'm looking at all the tables in order (by stakes and then alphabetically within the stakes) I can usually find it. But that is cumbersome and annoying.
It's nice to know when one of your favorite fish is online but then you have to play little games in the lobby to determine if the table he's listed at in SmartBuddy is REALLY the table he is seated at or if it's a different one.

The latest issue is even more annoying and more concerning so I'm making this new post about it.
You can't even download the product anymore.

I just got a new computer and wanted to download Smart Buddy. But it just took forever and obviously was getting nowhere and then I got some message that there was no response from the server or something like that.
So I tried Table Shark instead...can't download that either.
Then I tried downloading Smart Buddy on my GF's computer. Couldn't do that either.

So something is messed up at your place and I also have not received a response from my e-mail to support asking what is up.

I believe there is a way to transfer any program you like from your old computer to your new computer so I'll have to look into that and see if that will work for getting the Smart Buddy app onto my new computer (if the download still doesn't work on the client of course).

When I first got Smart Buddy I couldn't quite get it to work right away and asked a Q to your e-mail and got a response within an hour (might have been within 30 mins..can't remember) which is quite good. I had solved my problem by then but I was still impressed to receive an e-mil response so quickly.
But this time around it's been almost 24 hours I think and still no response and still no ability to download SmartBuddy (which I don't think is a problem on my end...but since nobody there has responded yet I'm not 100% sure of that).

Anyway, if you are looking for input from an advisory committee or whatever then you can consider this some of the type of stuff I would give you. I really don't have anything more to say privately than what I'm saying here. If you want input on your products then my suggestion would be to fix the bugs such as the ones I described in Smart Buddy and also have quicker cust-service response.

The database import tool insta crashes everytime I run it.

In our continued effort to improve our products and services we will offer Table Shark, our table selection tool free for 3 months to Two Plus Two users.

You can request a free 3 month license by contacting [email protected]

Also after receiving numerous requests we have decided to no longer have recurring fees for Table Shark. If you do not have a copy, you can download the latest version at www.pokerprolabs.com/tableshark

Your suggestions and feedback are greatly appreciated so please share your thoughts.

Poker sites currently supported: Poker Stars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, Party Poker, Bodog, Crypto logic, Poker Room, and Absolute poker.

Get a message that server is too busy, which seems kind of strange for 8am in the morning

Yeah I get the same...

working as of 3.30 pm GMT

Is it also possible to use it in combination with HM?

So do I need to email them and then wait for a reply before I download tableshark?

Would also like for it to work with HM since PT3 sucks.

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The fact that it doesnt support HM is a dealbreaker for me.

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We are adding HM support for Table Shark and should have the beta available shortly.
Please let us know if you have any other requests.

Ipoker support.

The latest version didn't let me resize it as small as I wanted, and the minimum size was pretty huge. W/ the older version I could resize it to any size I wanted and just stuff it in a corner. Screen space is at a premium for many of us so I hope the next version won't have this limitation.

Also, it would be nice if the column widths didn't reset on each startup. And if the Table Shark banner wasn't so big.

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