Leak Buster Poker Software Review

Leak Buster is poker add-on tool which was released by Hold’em Manager. The add-on provides a great framework for the Hold’em Manager and Poker Tracker 3 to improve your game play. The tool analyzes your game play and stats to observe leaks. Leaks are repetitive mistakes you make in in poker that are often times not clearly visible when looking at your own game. Leak Buster is exclusive to Pot Limit / No limit Hold’em and does not work for Omaha, Tournaments, and Sit and Go tournaments.

The 10 step program for finding leaks in your poker game.

Leak Buster provides feedback and advice on how to correct the leaks through the use of written modules and instructional videos. With the help of Leak Buster, a player is able to identify money-losing tendencies that are likely hurting his bankroll. The report screen shows 10 different aspects of your game and after sifting through your hand data is suggests improvements for each. (1) Starting here where is shows a player's small blind play.

It then summarizes all of your data into the Leak Buster Analysis report.

Leak Buster Poker Software Workflow

The software provides a user interface which is friendly and easy to navigate. The Leak Buster has got a total of 8 steps involved in its workflow and these are as follows;

1. Setup - The setup comes with an instructional video that will guide you through the entire process. It also provides the user with two main links - the leak buster manual and the leak buster forums. Once the process has been followed clearly the leak buster will be successfully integrated into the Hold’em Manager ready for use.

2. Leak Buster - This is the major section of the software.

This section includes: - How to Understand Leak Buster

- How to Find your Leaks
- How to Plug Leaks
- How to Understand your Analysis
- View a Graph of your Results

Registered players will get to see all stat categories while the trial users will only get to observe selective stats only. Users are able to import stats and they will get to observe an ideal range of value matched up stats and you can click on the advice button that falls below or above each stat. The advice link provides a quick instructional paragraph that includes a call of action in the form of articles, charts, training videos and links to forums.

The stats provide detailed information and you will be able to observe which parts need more attention. Underrated stats such as river aggression percentage, steal, squeeze percentage, and pre-flop positional awareness stats are shown with numbers. Basically, the Leak Buster gives a certain number to all stats so as to evaluate the score precisely.
Users will be able to see their leaks and how to solve them.

3. Position - This step focuses mainly on the position. It helps you to adjust your game play and also to include the advantages of position during game play. Users will be able to examine their leaks in relation to position. Users would have to focus on their flop cbet percent and it is highly recommended that it should be higher on the button and high on the blinds. This step also includes a video on how to examine key stats by position.

4. Trouble Hands - This step looks at the trouble hands and how to make use of the stats populated by Hold’em Manager. It includes an instructional video on how to examine common trouble hands. In order to examine your trouble hand you would have to load your hole cards.

5. 3-Bet - In this section, users will be able to observe their known cards that you 3bet with. This feature is enabled under the Quick Filters section. It includes an instructional video on how to examine your 3 betting habits. Users are abl3e to review their present hand or from the hand history section.

6. Filters - There is an instructional video how to understand particular reposts from the drop down field in the right pane.

7. Biggest Loss - This is a section which shows the total amount lost from your losing hands. Players are able to access certain hand functions such as replay hand from their hand histories. This section also includes an instructional video on how to review your biggest losing hands.

8. HUD - This section provides a PDF file which provides detailed information on how to import and use Poker Zion HUD layouts in the Leak Buster HUD. There is an instructional video on how to configure your HUD display.

The trouble hands feature is particularly interesting for cash game players showing detailed stats as to how that hand has performed for and in what position you played it.

Leak Buster is an add-on tool for Hold’em Manager and makes use of a separate program for analysis. It measures the significant drops in win-rate in relation to the highest median wins. This data is used by the tool to create scores and algorithms based on a bell curve ratio.

The leak buster tool is of great benefit to the mid stakes, small and micro NL/PL Hold’em players. Leak buster is only applicable for 6max No limit, full ring, and pot limit Hold’em games. They plan to add the support to the Pot Limit Omaha and Limit Hold’em in feature releases.

Currently, leak busters supports Poker Tracker 3 and Hold’em Manager database trackers. Leak Buster was designed by John Anhalt who has been playing poker professionally for over five years. John Anhalt is the founder of www.pokerzion.com, the author of www.pokerbythebook.com and www.sitandgobooster.com. Bryce Paradis of Cardrunners.com created the limit training videos, and all written advice for the limit version of Leak Buster.

Leak Buster available in a Limit and No Limit edition. Each Edition ins available in a standard and a professional version. Leak Buster Limit is for players who play $0.5/$1 and below. Leak Buster No limit Standard is for players who play 50nl and below. Both standard editions cost $49.99 each. Leak Buster Limit and No Limit professional are for all limits and costs $79.99 each. You can also purchase the Standard combo pack for discounted price of $69.98, or the Professional combo pack for $114.98

Customer comment: "Apart from the benefits of the LB program itself, which I believe will highlight problem areas in my game, an unsung benefit is the advice given through the videos on how to use PT3 productively. I just use the PT3 HUD but have never used probably 95% of PT's capabilities, so the pointers on how to use the PT3 database to identify and plug leaks is very valuable in itself.

On the whole, I think this will prove to be $75 well spent. It may not be so useful at the higher limits beyond $2-4, but I think it will help to progress to those limits and it gives you a methodical approach to questioning your game when you go into the inevitable draw-down."

Poker Software Update March 2011. Leak Buster adds PLO games.