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[QUOTE="JCSmith, post: 6389612, member: 130669"]
If you are playing online I find it to be a necessity. Even if you are a live player and used to calculating the pot odds in your head instantly, and being used to tracking players in your head, other people are using them. If you don't then you are putting yourself at a huge disadvantage.

There are many reasons you should be using them. The most important is just that if you are playing multiple tables (which most of us will be), and/or if you are playing faster tournaments (turbos, hyper turbos especially) you are going to be playing so many players and all you have to go by is an image, many of which are stock images that you may see on different players. It's just impossible for you to match a player to their tendencies in the same way that you would be able to if you are playing live. You have less cues to help you remember. And if you are multi-tabling you are often going to need to make decisions more quickly and may not be laser focused on any single table.

Just being able to at a glance see how many hands someone is playing, how often they fold, how often they cbet and then give up on the turn, how often they'll 3bet or fold to a 3bet, ow often they fold to a re-steal. That information is invaluable. And if you are not using a HUD everyone else has that information on you while you are playing with a handicap.
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