3-G software

[melioris]

nice comments RR. In no way are your comments leading to a flame war. Yeah, I totally forgot about the open source tracker, which is my preferred choice and I really hope it makes it. Right now it falls into the same camp as pEV as far as development.

As for some of your comments. While ultimately PT3 may end up being the superior product, and I suggested that in my OP, I think they have mismanaged the business end of PT3 to such a degree I do not trust the brand any more.

Yeah, I am a mac guy. I run bootcamp and dedicated a 25GB windows partition on my MBP. I run XP SP2 on that partition.

[Wes]

PT3 is garbage. HUD crashes constantly when I'm playing. Really hate that I bought it. HEM is ok. I really really hope pEV turns out to actually work.

[Talking Poker]

Good thread, guys.

I generally like waiting before trying new software, after learning lessons the hard way for years and years and years, dating all the way back to when I tried to upgrade from Windows 3/1 to Windows 95 with disasterous results.

So, as you probably could have guessed, I'm still using PT2.

I'm sure there are many features I'm missing out on, but for my needs it seems to serve it's purpose. Can any of you 3G guys make a solid argument for my to upgrade to either PT3, HEM, or anything else for that matter?

[melioris]

it is like anything else, if you don't see the need for it then don't upgrade. If/when you go back to 6-max games, then I think it is worth it for the extra HUD stats and analysis, but I don't see how it is necessary for HUSNGs.

[Robbie Robb]

I can only speak for the PT3 side of things and the answer is: absolutely not. At this point in time PT2 actually has more reports and analysis built in than what is currently offered in PT3. PT3 imports faster, looks prettier, but at the moment is lacking in all but the most basic features. I do firmly believe that if you ask this question two or three months from now, the answer will be completely different - especially as you're one of the players that actually uses PT2 to its fullest for post game analysis. From what I've heard through the bits and pieces of the grapevine Josh seems to have finally licked a large majority of the HUD bugs with this upcoming beta build so we'll see.

I don't think HEM really offers much that PT2 doesn't but I may be wrong. Mayhem? Wes?

[melioris]

HEM offers tons more post game analysis than PT2. Huge step up in that department.

[Wes]

HEM has a lot of things that you can look at and go, "oh damn, i must really suck in that regard." after you search for other people that are giving you problems and/or that seem tough and you can learn things from your opponents. So yeah basically what mel said.

[MAYHEM45]

I set up my HUD tonite and am now 100% using HEM. Ill talk about it a bit in my video.