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Poker Edge also has a plug-in module you can buy additional if you play cash games this is a must.  It’s a one time purchase and from then on is always included in any updates or subscription renewals at no extra cost.  You only buy the plug in once.  It is called Lobby Edge and is a table finder/selection tool that is amazing.  That would need another review to cover it completely but in summary here, you set the filters to the type table you want to play and the site you want to play.  It then spits out a list of tables and table dynamics with players and player summary for ALL the tables at a selected site that fit your criteria.  Then select one from the list that has the type players you want and join the waiting list.  The only draw back with this program is that it is new coming out in 2008 and so far only has a small selection of the 100’s of poker sites in Lobby Edge that PE actually supports. 

Obviously it is the more popular sites and new sites are added as the software is further developed to support each site.  Part of LE is a free module called Lobby Edge Buddy List.  You can enter player names and receive alerts when they are online and WHERE they are online at WHAT TABLE and go to them to find them and play them again.  GREAT for tracking “fish” too.

The way Poker-Edge is currently written there are two basic modules that run.  The “lookup window” and the “main window”.  I say “currently” because the developers have told me when they come out with the new version it will be incorporated into one main access window and the lookup window will be eliminated.

The Main Window is where you set your game parameters and filters.  Is it a cash game or tournament, is it No Limit or Limit, is it a full table or short table (6 and less players).  On the main you have search feature to lookup any player in it’s data base and what site you want the data on.  There is a notes tab in which you can make detailed notes on players.  Then there are the “tabs” which house all the data collected and sorted.

Key stats are the basic vital statistics on opponent type for basic profiling.  How tight, how loose, how aggressive, how many hands tracked, do they steal a lot, what percent of flops seen do they take to showdown, what percent of showdowns they win, how often they cold call preflop and are they more aggressive in late position post flop?  How aggressive are they normally post flop?  The other tabs break the data down further to preflop, flop, turn, river and showdown with statistical data on every street for every action.  All of this is given in numbers and percents for you to use and combine to determine what your opponent’s style and range can be.  Then you can decide if you want to try to bluff, steal, call, fold, be aggressive or passive etc… 

 

Now Poker Edge doesn’t tell you what to do or how to play an opponent.  That is up to you to make decisions.  It only tells you what the player does historically.  There is another feature on the showdowns tab that lists recent showdowns of the player.  A short hand history graphic that shows what they played from what position and any actions along the way to showdown including if they won or lost the hand.  There is a feature in the options to alter and adjust the information shown on the Key Stats tab.  For starters until you are familiar with the program it’s best not to mess with the default settings.  You can adjust them later to suit your taste and what is important to you.  On the other hand, if you do mess with them you can always go back and click on the restore default button to put it back right.

The other part of the program is the “lookup window”.  Both the Main and Lookup window can be positioned around your desktop however suits you.  I have the main on the right and the lookup at the bottom.  The lookup window lists every game table you have opened up to the limit of the poker site you are on.  In the case of Full Tilt it is limited only to 16 tables as that is the max you can have opened at the time of this writing.  Besides listing the tables opened it also lists the players at each table with their names color coded for tight, loose, neutral, very tight or very loose.  Also an icon is assigned to each player.  This icon is also in the Heads Up Display “HUD” on the game table itself which also has a set of important key stats on each player.  Hovering your cursor over the icon in the HUD will cause a drop down box to appear with another selection of critical data.  The icons can be customized in the main window setup functions as well as the formula for each icon and it’s color coding. 

Again, I recommend against making any changes to these unless you are extremely familiar with the program.  After two years I finally made a couple tweaks to the stats important to me in the HUD box and added some icons and player types to my profiling system to fit the way I read data and profile my opponents.  In the lookup window you further set the filters for what data you want showing on the table display.  Full limit, short limit, full no limit, short no limit, Bison & Bison is also an option.