Live Poker Tracking vs. PokerTracker and Holdem Manager
If you found this page searching for a poker tracker, there is a good chance you want one of those two and not us. Here is how to tell in ten seconds.
PokerTracker 4 and Holdem Manager 3 are desktop programs that read hand histories your online poker client writes to disk. They then show you a HUD over the table: your opponents' stats, hand by hand. That is an entirely different job from ours, and they are very good at it.
| Pay That Man His Money | PokerTracker & Holdem Manager | |
|---|---|---|
| The game you play | Live, in a card room | Online |
| Where the data comes from | You log the session | Hand history files your poker client writes |
| What you get | Hourly, results by stake, room and game type | A HUD with per-opponent stats, hand by hand |
| Asking it a question | Plain English, on your phone, between hands | A query language and a filter builder, at the desk |
| Languages | 31, and more on request | Several, desktop UI |
| Runs on | Phone and browser | Windows desktop, alongside the poker client |
| Getting your data out | Free export on every plan; import is paid | It is a local database on your PC |
Ask it a question instead of building a report
Every other tracker on this page answers questions the same way: you build a filter, or you pick from the reports someone else decided you would need. Ask works the other way round. Type "what's my hourly at $2/$5 NLH this year", or "which day of the week am I most profitable", or "compare my results at Bellagio vs. Aria", and the answer comes back — as a number, a table or a chart, whichever fits the question. Five questions a day on the free tier, fifty on paid. There is nothing to configure, which means you actually ask, instead of meaning to.
Wherever you play, in whatever you count it in
The app ships in 31 languages and reads your results in any of 12 currencies — AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, DKK, EUR, GBP, INR, MXN, NOK, SEK, USD. Nothing is ever converted behind your back: the currency you are billed in comes from your payment provider, and the currency you read your numbers in is a setting you pick. And if your language is not in the list, ask for it. Translations here are data files rather than a rewrite, so adding one is a small job — a request from a player who will actually use it is all it takes.
Your data stays yours
Export everything, any time, free on every plan including the free one, with nothing to ask us for. A tracker you cannot walk away from is not a tracker, it is a hostage situation, and the half that matters for that is getting the data out. (Importing a file back in is a paid feature.) Your sessions are also yours alone: results are never pooled, never shown to other players, never sold on. There is no leaderboard, no community average, no anonymised data set with your hands in it. Nobody else can see what you make.
When PokerTracker or Holdem Manager is the right answer
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Free tier, no card. $3/month or $30/year when you want the rest of it.
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