Currently, a very few poker online rooms have a HUD built into the poker client. The most advanced of them is Smart HUD at GGPoker. In this article, you will learn what stats it collects on players in different poker variants and why the poker room needed such functionality.
Smart HUD is a feature built into the GGPoker client that shows real-time stats and is available to all players. It was launched in 2018 and has been updated several times since then. The number of available stats has increased significantly over this time.
GGPoker is the only poker site on the market with a fully-functional built-in HUD (heads-up display).
However, any third-party poker software is prohibited, including trackers. It is only allowed to download anonymized hand history, upload it to HM3, PT4, or H2N and analyze your own game away from tables.
Smart HUD collects data only for the current session and separately for each table. Visually, it appears in the form of a number near the players' avatar that displays the value of the VPIP stat. If a player recently won a big pot, the number is surrounded by flames; if lost - covered with ice.
In different poker variants, the proposed stats are slightly different.
By hovering over the Smart HUD icon, you can see more stats: the number of hands played, profit, PFR, ATS (blind stealing frequency from CO, BTN, and SB positions), and 3Bet. The VPIP icon reveals a pop-up window with more detailed information broken down by street (flop, turn, and river). In addition to the above, the following stats are shown:
Also, you can see your biggest pots won and lost vs. this player.
For tournaments, a graph with the results of your last 5 MTTs and the total profit is shown after the 4 primary stats.
At GGpoker All-in or Fold push-fold tables, the Smart HUD popup is slightly different. You can see the following 4 main stats: All-in (actually, it’s the same VPIP), ATS, Fold, and FTA (Fold To Aggression). The information about your jackpot winnings and a diagram showing the percentage distribution of your showdown hands is located below.
The player can see five main stats if he hovers the mouse cursor over the GGPoker Smart HUD icon in any opponent's box.
The percentage of hands in which the player raised before the flop. The higher the number, the more aggressive the player's preflop style.
It is important that there is a small difference between VPIP and PFR. With an optimal VPIP and a close PFR, the player almost always has the initiative in the hand and controls the course of the hand. If PFR is too small compared to VPIP, this indicates a passive play through calls.
If you click on the icon with VPIP, an additional window opens with other stats broken down by streets.
Regardless of the poker variant, you can make a separate text note for each player via the HUD window:
You can identify the tagged opponents by the color frames around their boxes during the game. Player notes can be read by hovering over the Smart HUD icon. You can edit notes via a particular section of PokerCraft.
The issue of using poker tracking software to display real-time player stats at the poker tables has become one of the most acute in recent years.
PokerTracker and Holdem Manager use hand histories saved by poker clients as text files, which, once imported, allow the output of HUD. But this divided all the players into two groups: those who use such software and those who play without it. This put them in deliberately unequal conditions.
GGPoker did not want some of its players to have such advantages in having additional information about opponents. They found a “golden mean” in solving this problem: external trackers are not supported, but there’s a built-in Smart HUD instead, which gives all players access to the same stats.
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