Is Hold'em Inspector V2 worth $99

[dreamtheatre]

Hi

I am a new hold'em player. I deposited 100 dollars each to paradise poker, party poker and pacific poker and it took less than half an hour each to lose these deposits.

We found the website of Hold'em Inspector V2 accidentally while searching for poker books . its price is 99 dollars and it says there is no need to be an expert to use this programme.

If there is anyone who has used this programme could he/she kindly tell me if it is worth buying? Will it be of any help or will it make my toatl loss 399?

Thanks

[soflat]

Losing $100 in less than half an hour three times suggests you need to start at lower limits and develop your fundemental skills more.

You are probably playing way too many hands and calling to much (most new poker players do). Pick up a good beginners poker book and learn which hands to play, how to calculate basic pot odds, etc.

The program looks pretty useful, but just starting out you should develop the basic skills first. And a good book will be a better investment (you can actually get poker books free from a number of affiliates).

[dreamtheatre]

thanks for your kind reply.

i bought a book. its title is hold'em poker by david sklansky and mason malmuth.

i started reading and immediately got bored. well i like action not preparation.

i will buy the inspector. One more question by the way is it certain that the cards are shuffled randomly? Some guys always had good hands while some others including me had usually terrible cards.

It is not very expensive and i have some money to spare by the way since I was paid thirty thousand dollars by an online casino which happens to be on the rogue list. They had confiscated 830 dollars of mine so i have a net profit of 30000-830= 29.170 to spare!!!!

[ace4suited]

you have already told me enough for me to know you have the wrong mentality for ring game poker. So what name do you play under?

Unfortunately i do have a conscience - damn.

What you need is not a bit of software but a bit of skill and a bit of sense.

Poker requires loads of discipline which you do not seem to have but it also requires self knowledge and that you do.

If you want action then play tourneys - and play them cheap dont play big money till you have learned skills and discipline. Secondly play 2-6 games at once - you do not have the patience for playing 1 game tight so play 3-4 games or 1 game and solve quadratic equations at the same time - which ever you prefer. But start cheap - get the occasional but of big action from a satellite/ double shootout tourney but start focusing on turning a profit at what ever level and go from there. A bankroll should last months not hours and a player making a few cents a week will often be a better player than someone playing 1/2$ NL without success.

So play low stakes , multitable, stick to tourneys and learn discipline of both your bankroll and your game

[dreamtheatre]

""" I noted while reviewing your account that you see on average 89% of the flop. Our profitable players typically see less than 30% of flops and usually closer to 20%. Any winning or professional player will tell you that no player could ever win playing that many hands. Poker is a game of patience, and players who play too many hands lose too much money hand in and hand out to be able to show a profit on the hands that they do win. And as Lee H. Jones said in one of his many articles on bad beats , "So, you don't need to rig poker decks to get "bizarre" results. A reasonably shuffled deck of cards will do that for you."


That is what paradise poker rep says about my style.

My membername is deeperpurple at paradisepoker and party poker.

It is aliparla at pacificpoker.

Thanks for the concerns but the webpage says that the inspector will tell me when to fold when to check and when to raiseç so why do i need skill patience etc? the program will tell me how to play and i will follow the instructions isnt that the case?

[ace4suited]

my pleasure

following instructions requires quite a lot of patience - paricularly when if you play tight you could literally never win a pot in an hour (and then tripple up 5 min later after a couple of monsters came your way) because the advice will generally be fold and that does get boring after a while. So patience will still be a key skill. Also do not bet that the recommendations will be good! Poker bots still have a long way to go before they really threaten humans (if they ever will)

Blackjack tourneys would also be fun (the freezeout kind) in these you can be wildely aggressive and it still be profitable. If you like tourneys in general

Even utilising the program multitabling would help make the game more fun - i generally play 2-4 games at once and this stops me getting bored. As you develop poker skills you will have more and more to do on each table but even still it is quite easy to do.

[tennis_balls]

my 2 cents would be that you only play tournaments and sit n go for $5 or $10 a pop and don't even consider going back to a cash game until you are consistently profitable in the former.

[WAYLANDER]

I would be against buying this
Firstly alot of sites have been banning people with this kind of software ( they can actually check what you have running in background..beyond me )
Not sure about this one though so it might be ok

Even so they are no substitute for a good poker brain

You definately need to work on your discipline lol 89% goes beyond fish....its well into sperm whale area!

I know this isnt what you want to hear but the old saying:- you can learn in 2 mins but takes a lifetime to master holds true with poker
There is no substitute for experience

I disagree with playing 6 tables at once.. complete madness for a novice!
This is mainly done by experienced players who play very mechanically, mainly playing limit poker ( alot of bonus chasers do this and are complete rocks ) , this is also very mindnumbing..hence the popular term grind!

If you are serious about winning money you will need to learn about starting hands / bankroll / limits / position / deceptive plays.. the list is long.
Get a few good books , slansky is too heavy for a novice, and you will soon pick up the basics.
Also try a few dif types of games (sit n gos , limit , no limit , multi table tourneys ) see what you enjoy

There are a couple of very good programs out there that will download and record all your stats from the sites, pokertracker is prob the most well known.. this is a great learning tool.

I would also advise starting at the low levels.. but judging by your posts i get the feeling you want to get stuck right in!

Good luck

WAYLANDER

[Renegade]

Just to give a little insight here, when I play in tournaments, let's say 385 hands are delt, I only play 15% of that.

If your playing good, strong poker, your suppose to be bored.
If you like alot of action, choose another game. Playing 89% of the hands is insane unless your playing heads up.

A nice starting point would be a single table sit & go for $0.50, $1.00, $2.00 etc until you can build your skills up.

But also note, only playing in tournaments is not a good idea, only a few, a very few, poker pros can make a living at tournament play.

[nafanny29]

""" I noted while reviewing your account that you see on average 89% of the flop. Our profitable players typically see less than 30% of flops and usually closer to 20%. Any winning or professional player will tell you that no player could ever win playing that many hands. Poker is a game of patience, and players who play too many hands lose too much money hand in and hand out to be able to show a profit on the hands that they do win. And as Lee H. Jones said in one of his many articles on bad beats , "So, you don't need to rig poker decks to get "bizarre" results. A reasonably shuffled deck of cards will do that for you."


That is what paradise poker rep says about my style.

Wow they actually contacted you and said that! Amazing!!

But as the other posters have said poker can be boring and frustrating a lot of the time and it takes a lot of skill and experiance to win even at low limits these days.

One book I would recommend is "Internet Texas Hold'em" by Matthew Hilger. Very good limit poker book aimed at players with basic knowledge of the game who want to improve and it has a lot of actual hands included and discussed. I still re-read it every now and then.