The Advantages Of Data Mining
Think about a poker game wherein you are sitting down with 9 different players but having lots of information about their game strategies. Imagine that you really have data equal to hundreds of hours about them like you are sitting with them while critically watching their moves. Dataminers make this data gathering possible. You can use this program together with a heads up display and other programs like poker tracker. Using this, you can have the useful data that you want from every online poker player and it will be displayed right on your own computer monitor. Then, how does it work?
A dataminer will open and close tables while you are away from your computer and record every action that every player at those tables makes. Your computer can be watching 20+ tables at a time while you are sleeping. This data is then imported into a database and the stats are displayed directly on your poker table with a heads up display. So why is it important to have thousands of hands worth of data on every player?
You may play 30 or so hands with a player and think you have them pegged. They haven’t played a hand yet so their super tight right? The answer is maybe. 30 hands is better than 0 hands but what does it really tell you. Maybe that player had a really cold run of cards and just didn’t have anything worth playing. The truth is that the sample size is just too small.
If you have been datamining all week long, you will probably have a few thousand hands worth of data. The data that you have may be able to tell you that the player that you have your eyes on may not be as tight as you first thought and not a good candidate to steal from. If you have a larger amount of data, it will be more accurate. With the use of datamining you will have good information on every online poker player that you come across.
Datamining is also very useful for table selection if you use it together with a poker table scanner. Having valuable information on every player at the table would absolutely benefit you on online poker games.
The professional poker players have used datamining and surely by this time, they already know a lot about you. Don’t you believe that you should be using the same strategy?
The author of this article began playing poker seriously in 2000 and has played full time since early 2005. He currently makes the majority of his income from online poker and Players Only Rakeback.
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