Holdem Indicator has been around for nearly 5 years now, with sales continue to be solid. Part of that reason is the fantastic service that the Indicator programmers offer, and the speed of which they are able to adapt the poker software when a key poker site updates theirs. In fact, other 3rd party software programmers have come to the Indicator personnel for help when their own developers have not been able to figure out new issues with either Poker Stars or Full Tilt Poker.
The software, like all Indicator products is essentially divided into two main area of information, both of which are cleverly and nicely shown in the main screen. The first feature is accurately showing a players pot odds when in a hand. It’s a visual scale which decsribes the ratio of how much a player will have to call compared to the size of the pot. Then there are also win odds. This figure is certainly more abstract, but attempts to show the likeliness of your hand being the winner at the river. Both of these scales combined together are fairly effective. You can also toggle the main stats window view to see how much of a expectation your hand has to improve to certain other hands, such as two pair, a straight, flush, or full house. The other main characteristic of the software profiles your opponents for you instantly.
Now how do we know what kind of player you might be playing? Holdem Indicator tracks important indicators of your opponents behavior so you can make more desirable decisions at the table. For example, the number of hands he has been at the table and how many times he has voluntarily got mixed up in a hand. How often has he raised Preflop? What are his betting, stealing and folding tendencies.? Holdem Indicator also tracks how often a player goes all the way to the river, and what his winning percentage is when he gets to the show-down. A player’s session results are important too, as how much he has won or lost while playing can effect his aggravation level and if he is susceptible to errors – in other words – going on tilt.When you are able to use data like this and combine them into an overall profile, Holdem Indicator will add an immediate and significant advantage for you.
The developers of this poker software also realize that each player has specific preferences as to how he wants to view that information, as well as how many tables they are comfortable in playing simultaneously. Given that, Holdem Indicator can be altered to resize the standard horizontal layout to fit the poker table, or can be minimized or even changed to a vertical view. Each time a user opens up a new table, another instance of the software will be opened.
Recently the software program had a major upgrade which allows for a HUD feature which overlays a users poker table. In other words the data normally displayed within the main window of Holdem Indicator is now right by the opponent ON the poker table itself. A HUD or head-up display is designed so that the user does not have to take his eyes away from the table. With this new update, users can switch back and forth from the HUD or any of the other displays, even while playing.
Holdem Indicator can do all this in real time using sophisticated programming that actually reads the chat box and other information right from your table. You dont have to do anything except use the information it provides.