I play on Bovada.

Do not use a HUD if your only poker site is Bovada.


Anonymous tables means that you're never going to have more than 50 - 100 hands on any player before they leave. I can walk you through the math behind small samples, but your stats will be useless to you.

In that amount of time, there's nothing a stat will tell you that your observant mind wont already know.

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The advantage of a HUD is that it allows you to compile information from thousands of hands on the same player. The stats don't mean much until you have a few thousand hands to back them up.

If you are playing on a normal site, with player names, then a HUD can be helpful, but it's still nowhere near the bang for the buck you'll get by posting hands here on FTR and participating in the discussions in the small stakes forum.

My advice to anyone buying a HUD program is to work your way out of the micros before you bother. Focus on obvious plays before you get into the tricky ones.