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Message: [QUOTE="xOneCoolHandx, post: 5916581, member: 143461"] I was a winning player LONG before I got HUD. And even having HUD has not improved my game tremendously except that it allows me to play more tables at the same time. I am the type of player who wants to observe and take notes on what the other players are doing so that I can figure out what they are doing wrong. HUD can help with that...say that a player is playing too many pots but limping in every one of them, HUD will show you their VPIP (times they enter the pot voluntarily) and PF (preflop raises). It is quite common to see a VPIP of 45 and PF of 12. This means that the player either limps or calls a bet in front of them and sees the flop on 45% of hands but is only raising 12% of them. So, this player raises when he has a stronger hand and limps when he has other hands that he wants to at least see a flop with. While this is very useful (along with the amount of 3 betting a player will call) information, this is info that you can observe without a HUD. You just have to be observant at the table and not try to play too many tables at once. Personally, I do like my HUD but I also see people becoming overly reliant on them. Remember that it is only a tool. Take the numbers I gave for example, say you are going to use those numbers to base a decision on a hand after only 30 hands against that player. Well, that's generally a mistake because it is a small sample size. But I see others do this all the time. What I actually find most useful about my HUD is that it shows recent hands that each player took to showdown. You can use this to see what they are opening with, in what position and compare that to how they played the hand. Also, I really like using it to go back through hands that I played to break them down and see how well I think I played a hand. In general, I like to play one (sometimes two) tables at a time and focus on it. The pros ALL use HUD so that they can play 30-50 tables at a time. I think this is terrible. I know about win rates and averages and making money, yada yada...but really, I want to win and I want to be in great form for live tournaments where you don't have a HUD and you are only playing 1 slow table at a time. That's just me though. [/QUOTE]

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