Poker Datamining

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Do you know what “poker datamining” is?

Well, most people don’t, and that is what makes it so profitable!

What is Poker Datamining?

Datamining is basically a way of learning how your opponents play, with having to spend any time playing against them. It works by using a “handgrabber” to save hand hand histories while observing tables at the poker site where you play. This can give you an astonishing amount of hand histories, and by importing them into a program like Pokertracker or Holdem Manager, you can learn a lot about how your opponents play.

Just imagine sitting down at a table with 5 unknown players, and then have stats based on several thousands of hands shown in your HUD. It will not only enable you to get better reads on the other players – You get them before you have even played a single hand against them.

While datamining can give you a big advantage, you should be aware that you still have to interpret the information yourself. Knowing that the player to your lest is 3-betting 15% when he is in the blinds won’t do you much good, if you aren’t sure how to adjust and exploit it (you should open less hands from late position and 4-bet a lot). Datamining isn’t a shortcut to becoming a winning player, but if you are already a good player,

In the last 6 months many players has begun buying hand histories, since gives them the same benefits as datamining, but without the hassle of setting up your computer to datamine.

How to Datamine

If you haven’t datamined before, the easiest way to get started is probably to watch some of the video tutorials from PokerDatamining.net. Some of them are pretty advanced, but the videos about Bodog and Full Tilt Poker datamining does a fairly good job of explaining how everything works.

If you want a taste of what the videos are like, you can watch one demonstrating how to datamine af Pacific Poker below.

Introduction to Datamining on Pacific Poker

Please note that some poker rooms consider datamining to give you an unfair advantage, so while I haven’t heard about anybody getting into trouble for datamining, you should check with your poker room before datamining yourself.

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