Poker Player Notes is a program that is installed on your PC and enables you to keep notes about your rival online poker players.

On screen, a small window can be positioned near each player as shown in the following screen.

Each player window gives you quick access to a number a features that help you collect notes and information about your rivals.

Note: Before continuing to read, this software product currently runs on Windows XP and Vista.

To win at Poker you need more than good cards and good luck. If everyone played poker in the same way, waiting for premium cards and relying on good luck, then over the course of 5000 games it is probable that each player would win an equal number of games and no player would be significantly ahead.

In order to win at Poker you need an edge over your opponents. If you can be at least 5% better than your opponents then you stand a chance of winning in the long term.

One method that you can use in order to improve your edge is by taking notes on your rival players. What do they do in certain situations, how do they behave when 3 low unsuited cards flop?

Having notes on your rivals can certainly help give you an advantage. The trouble is, taking notes using pen and paper is not very practical, difficult to manage, and in the short time you’ve got to make your decisions how do you find the notes on a particular player? You could use something like Microsoft notepad, but again that will prove difficult when you want to flip between different player notes.

Poker-Player-Notes is a program that makes it easy for you to keep notes on players.

Here are some of the main benefits of Poker-Player-Notes:

1) Keep free text notes on each player. Constantly add to the notes to build up a complete picture and history of that player. These notes are your own personal notes. They are not shared or available to anyone.

2) Assign one or more traits to a player. These are pre-defined traits that you initially set up and can then very quickly assign to players. Here are a few examples of traits that you could set up:

When you are online, you can assign a trait to a player just a few clicks.

3) Assign a typical player type to a player such as Tight, Aggressive, Loose.

It’s entirely up to you what notes you keep. As well as poker notes, you may keep social notes on a player. For instance if you know that a rival supports a certain football team and that team has just lost/won on Saturday afternoon, you may be able to use that to your advantage.

The details that you capture in Poker-Player-Notes are unique to you. You’ll always find the notes, traits and ratings easy to understand because they are aligned to the way that you think about and play poker.

The notes that you take could eventually give you that extra little edge that you need to become a winning player.

For example you have made a note on a player that if he raises pre-flop, but then folds to a raise on the flop if the flop contains an Ace, you’ve also noted that out of the 10 times you have met him, he has done this 6 times, so it’s a fairly predictable trait. When you are up against this player, even though you don’t have an Ace, you can raise on the flop and see what he does. If he calls or re-raises then be very careful!

Rather than being faced with a mass of numbers, percentages and statistics, you will have your own personalised notes on the players. Notes that you understand and comprehend.

You can also categorise players by typical types. Traditionally there are four main categories of players:

• Loose-Passive
• Loose-Aggressive
• Tight-Passive
• Tight-Aggressive

Poker-Player-Notes allows you to enter your own player types. For instance you may be happy with categorising players as either Bad, Average, or Good.

See, all these top players have thier own way of making notes and categorising thier opponents. Do you think you could benefit from copying thier techniques and suggestions?

Here’s another example of how Poker-Player-Notes can give you an edge. You have made a note that when a certain player raises ten times the big blind, if anyone calls him and it goes to the showdown he always shows trash cards. Your notes show that he has done this consistently three times. So your notes give you an advantage. Next time he does it and you have a good hand, you can raise him and he should fold. (Beware if he does not fold)

This screenshot gives a view of how Poker-Player-Notes works at a six player table. You will see 5 small windows around the table. (The missing one is you)

When you notice a player do something that may be useful for you to do, then you press the Notes button and type a quick comment.

The Traits button allows you capture the number of times that a player has displayed a certain behavior. For example:

"Regularly calls when on the button” "When raising from Under The Gun, will always fold if the flop has a pair”.

The great thing is that you define the traits and player types. The definitions are unique to you and thus you will find them easy to understand and make a decision when under pressure and the clock is ticking.

The Rating button allows you to select from YOUR individual list of player types, such as Tight, Loose, Monkey, Donkey etc. When you have allocated a type to a player, it will be displayed so that you can quickly view it. As with traits, you define your own categories of ratings for players.

With Poker-Player-Notes, you are creating your own view of the players. Not a mass of numbers and percentages. It’s very similar to how we behave in our daily lives when we meet someone. We tend to say "He’s a bit shifty, I’d better watch out”. Or "She seems a really good person”. Or "He has helped me out every time I’ve asked.” If you’re interested in being able to keep descriptive notes on a player and have your own clear picture of how he plays then you should give Poker-Player-Notes a try.

Let me make it very clear. Poker-Player-Notes is not an automatic or otherwise way of winning at poker. In a sense, Poker-Player-Notes is no more intelligent than a pen and paper. It’s just a lot more convenient. Poker-Player-Notes will only be as useful as the information that you store in it.

If you keep lots of relevant notes, over time you may find that you have an advantage over your poker rivals. During play, you have quick access to the notes and other traits just by selecting a player window and hovering over the buttons.

Poker-Player-Notes also allows you to search for players. This means that you can read the notes about your opponents before joining a table. For instance, you may be more inclined to join a table where there are three players that you have rated as being Amateur rather than joining a table where there are six players that you have rated as Professional. That facility alone could help prevent you from losing money.

Lets say that you are currently playing 10 Sit n Go’s at the weekend at a cost of £10 each. A total outlay of £100 (ignoring poker room rake). Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You are hovering around the break even mark. (Better than constantly being a loser). At the end of most weekends you find yourself usually £20 up or £20 down. You may be asking yourself is it all worth it if I am only breaking even?

Suppose that having comprehensive notes on players enables you to get first or second place in 1 or 2 extra games per weekend that you would normally lose. That represents an extra profit of between £60 and £100 per weekend. That's a very significant improvement compared to just breaking even..

Because this version of Poker-Player-Notes is free, you must agree to us displaying adverts on one or more of the screens. Also, by registering with us and downloading a copy of the software you agree that we can send you a promotional email about once every three months.

This product works on Microsoft Windows XP or Vista. You’ll also need an internet connection.