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Tournament Indicator Summary
Tournament Indicator is, a state-of-the-art online poker odds calculator specifically geared towards tournament play, it offers instant poker odds, real time opponent statistics, and betting patterns in simple and easy to understand displays. It also displays your MZONE statistics. With this feature-rich poker odds calculator, you’ll immediately have every piece of information you need for intelligent and profitable decisions.
Tournament Indicator is available for $89.95 or for free upon signing up to one their poker room offers. Either way, you get a lifetime license for the software.
Win Odds, Pot Odds, Hand Odds, and Outs
Tournament Indicator calculates your win odds by using a mathematical algorithm based on the cards you hold, the community cards, and the number of players in the hand. Your Pot Odds are merely the ratio of money in the pot compared with how much it costs to call. The higher the ratio, the better your pot odds are. Tournament Indicator will also give you the Hand Odds(the probability of hitting a particular hand at showdown) of not just you but your opponents as well. The unknown cards yet to be dealt after the flop are known as OUTs. The more cards left in the deck, the more chance of improving your hand. The more ways you can improve your hand is obviously better, so by counting your OUTs you can do a rough quick calculation to estimate your odds of improving. Knowing your outs can help you make a decision on the hand. Tournament Indicator displays your OUTs statistics from strongest to weakest so you can easily choose which hands to play or ignore.
Expected Value and Group
Expected Value is the average amount of the big bets a hand will make or lose. The information comes from the poker rooms own statistics at any specific position. The stats are compiled from real time table information opposed to simulations. Group is a way of describing your cards strength. This is based on a theory David Sklansky came up with, dividing starting hands into different groups.
- Group 1: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AKs- Premium Hands
- Group 2: TT, AQs, AJs, KQs, AK
- Group 3: 99, JTs, QJs, KJs, ATs, AQ
- Group 4: T9s, KQ, 88, QTs,98s, J9s,AJ, KTs
- Group 5: 77, 87s, Q9s, T8s, KJ, QJ, JT, 76s, 97s, Axs, 65s
- Group 6: 66, AT, 55, 86s, KT, QT, 54s, K9s, J8s, 75s
- Group 7: 44, J9, 64s, T9, 53s, 33, 98,43s, Kxs, T7s, Q8s
- Group 8: 87, A9, Q9, 76, 42, 32s, 85s, J8, J7, 65, 54, 74S, K9, T8
- Group 9: The Rest…
Notes:
*AKs= Ace King Suited
*AK= Ace King Not Suited
*Kxs= King combined with random card suited.
Position
Tournament Indicator displays your position after the flop. Tournament Indicator shows your position after the flop. On a full table of 10 people, the first 3 seats would be Early. The button and the two seats before would be Late, and the in between is the Middle.
Mucked Hands Display
The Mucked Hands Display feature is available for use on Party Poker, Empire Poker, Full Tilt, iPoker, and most other popular rooms. Tournament Indicator can read the mucked hand information from the hand history. It will then display them, but keep in mind not every hand has mucked cards.
MZONE
The “m” score is merely the ratio of your stack compared to the Antes and Blinds. Knowing this can hugely affect and help you with your starting hand. Tournament Indicator will also give you the MZONE score of your opponents.
MZone = (Table Stacks) / ((BB + SB) + (Ante * Number of players))
| 20+ |
10 - 20 |
6 - 10 |
1 - 5 |
0 - 1 |
Match Cards
Tournament Indicator has a “Match Cards” feature which is used to assess situations in a tournament where you might go all-in at the later stages of a tournament.
Hand Replayer
You can visualize hands you played with the exact player stats and win odds (for yourself and players with known cards).
Player Stats
Tournament Indicator also stores player stats automatically and they will load the next time you play with a tracked player. Tournament Indicator gets this information by reading data and log files supplied by the poker rooms. Tournament Indicator makes it easier by automatically remembering the information for you and displaying it.
In your Tournament Indicator installation folder, you can see a sub-folder named “Statistics”, where the stats database file is located.
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- You can choose which stats columns you prefer to display. "Right Click" on the stats window. Then select Select Columns to be Displayed.
- Player: If you click the header of this column once or twice, you can sort players by player name alphabetically or by seat positions on the game table.
- MZone: The “M” score is a ratio of your stack to the blinds and antes and dramatically affects your starting hand selection and strategy. Tournament Indicator calculates everyone’s MZone score at your table, giving you a huge advantage when it comes to exploiting those opponents' mistakes.
- MZone = (Table Stacks) / ((BB + SB) + (Ante * Number of players))
| 20+ |
10 - 20 |
6 - 10 |
1 - 5 |
0 - 1 |
- VP$IP (Voluntary Put Money In Pot): Percentage of games a player voluntarily puts Money in the pot pre-flop. Blinds do not count unless a player completes the small blind or calls a raise or raises from either blind. It measures a player’s tightness/looseness, which helps indicate the range of hands that the player will see a flop with. Green for Tight, Black for Neutral, Red for Loose. Below are the default settings.
| VP$IP |
Category |
| VP$IP < 24% |
Tight |
| 24% < VP$IP < 30% |
Neutral |
| VP$IP > 30% |
Loose |
- PFR: Pre-flop raise percentage.
- 3Bet/F: 3Bet pre-flop. % of times a player raises pre-flop when facing a raise. It includes 3Bet, 4Bet, 5Bet, etc.
/F: % of times a player folds when facing a 3Bet. It applies to the 1st raiser only. In case that hand is a 4bet hand eventually and the 1st raiser folds, it’s not a “Folded to 3Bet pre-flop”.
- Steal/F: % of time a player raises unopened pot pre-flop from the CO (Cutoff), Button and SB position. A steal can only be made if everyone in front of the stealer folds so that the stealer is making the first bet pre flop and only from the cutoff, button or small blind. If there is a limper in front and the steal position player raises, that is classed as "raising limpers" and not "stealing".
/F: % of times SB/BB folds when facing a steal.
- AF (Aggression Factor): It measures a player's aggression/passivity, which represents the player's betting tendencies after the flop. Tournament Indicator provides a combined AF for flop, turn, and river. If a player makes some raises and bets but never calls, the AF will be displayed as Inf, which means "infinite".
AF = (Raise% + Bet %) / Call %
Red for Passive, Black for Neutral, Green for Aggressive. Below are the default settings.
| AF Value |
Category |
| AF < 1 |
Passive |
| 1 < AF < 1.5 |
Neutral |
| 1.5 < AF |
Aggressive |
- CBet/F: Continuation bet on flop. % of time a player bets the flop after being the pre-flop raiser. A CBet can only be made when there are players to act before the pre-flop raiser, if those other players all check to the pre-flop raiser.
/F: % of time a player folds to a continuation bet on flop.
- WSD/W: To further categorize players, we use "Went to Showdown %" to measure whether a player is Solid or Overplay. It is based on the hands when saw flop. Green for Solid, Red for Overplay. Below are the default settings.
| WSD% |
Category |
| WSD < 39% |
Solid |
| 39% < WSD |
Overplay |
/W: Went to Showdown and Won percentage.
- Net: The chips amount a player Won/Lost in last 10 (by default) hands. It is very interesting to observe how different playing styles (see VPIP, AF, etc) correlate with winning or losing patterns. Also, the balance may represent additional useful information regarding the player's current mindset (who is more likely to "play it safe", who is getting desperate, who is about to "go on tilt" etc).
- (Hand) Streak: The number of hands a player has Won or Lost in a row. The total number of hands tracked is also displayed in this column. For example, "+2/5" means the total number of hands is 5, and that player won 2 hands in row.
- Player Notes: In the player stats window, double click on a player’s name, you can add/edit or view notes for that player. On the HUD overlay, click the profiling icon. Once a player has notes, there will be a “symbol” on the player name or the profiling icon. The notes data will be kept locally on your computer.
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Profiling Icons
After receiving more than 40 hands for a player, Tournament Indicator will assign a Profiling Icon. There are over 14 different types of Profiling based on playing styles, listed are some styles that you should pay particular attention to.
 Calling Station (Loose, Passive)  Gambler (Loose, Aggressive)  Tight, Aggressive  Rock (Tight, Passive)  Neutral, Neutral  Neutral, Aggressive  Neutral, Passive  Loose, Neutral  Tight, Neutral  After 20 hands, Tournament Indicator still can't profile this player as one of the icons above.  Not sure yet. Not enough hands of data to categorize this player.
Verdict
To take full advantage of what Tournament Indicator offers, you would need to be a regular tournament player. Tournament Indicator can be a valuable tool for beginners and advanced tournament players alike. For new players, it can help teach the basic principles of tournament play. When using the MZONE feature will ensure you can get as far as possible in the tournament without making irrational decisions early on which, could ensure your early exit. For more advanced players archiving statistical play specific to tournament players is invaluable as people play differently in tournaments than they would in cash games.
For occasional players Tournament Indicator does not offer good value for money, unless taking it from one of their poker room offers. For new players looking to play specifically in tournaments or advanced players who play many tournaments, it offers great value for money by either offer (cash or free poker room offers)
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