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Poker Table Ratings Synopsis

PokerTableRatings.com, formerly known simply as TableRatings, does a great job of helping an online poker player find information. It's pretty remarkable for a free product and also offers hand histories for sale, making it a one-stop shop for serious online poker players. You can register for free and get 10 free searches per day. If you need more searches, you can sign up for PTR Premium. PokerTableRatings.com also offers users the chance to buy hand histories.

Since it's free, we recommend PokerTableRatings.com to absolutely everyone.

Poker Table Ratings Full Review

PokerTableRatings (formerly known as TableRatings) is surprisingly useful for a free site. It features a table selection tool, poker buddy list, and the ability to look up players and learn about their past hands. You can see a list of juicy tables and you can even check out the biggest pots online for any given day. PokerTableRatings is regarded as 'the' place to go for cash game players. The tools are very useful, but make sure to check the sample size before you decide someone is a fish or a shark. Be cautioned that the program may be against the Terms of Service of several online poker sites. Check out PTR Premium for full details on the site's Premium service.

Let’s dive into some of the features of the site and see what we find:

Main Screen

On the main Screen, you will find an Ultimate Poker Player Search, where you can quickly search for players and then have access to a full analysis of the players you search. For example, if we search durrrr (one of the biggest winning players in online history), we will quickly see that he is up $9.1 million since May, 2008. You can also see how many hands are tracked on a player, if they are hot or cold, what their BB/100 rate is, and many other useful statistics.

We can drill even further into our searches and get a full analysis on the player, which includes a Looseness Analysis, Aggression Analysis, and Showdown Analysis. These analyses show several points plotted in a graph that compares the player you searched to the rest of the population at the given stakes. Also listed on the home screen is a list of the biggest winners, losers, and biggest pots won today. Here is what the current main screen looks like:

Player Search Screen:

Tools

One of the great things about PokerTableRatings is the amount of custom searches you can perform. Perhaps two of the most useful searches on the site are the Table Finder and My Buddy List. The Table Finder will allow you to search for tables across nine different online poker sites with preset criteria. For example, if you want to search all nine sites for tables playing $1/$2 No Limit Holdem with 7 to 10 players seated, you can do so with simple drop down menus. The results are then displayed with a score of 0 to 100 that uses VP$IP, PFR %, and AF in the formula. This feature is very useful when trying to find the softest games across multiple sites.

My Buddy List is a tool that allows you to load players into your buddy list so that you can keep an eye out for them when they sit down at the tables. You will have an Online list and an Offline list, so you always know if players in your buddy list are playing or not. This is very useful for finding the fish you have played against in the past and being notified when your favorite high-stakes players join the tables.

Widgets are tools that PokerTableRatings offers that are truly unique. With PokerTableRatings, widgets allow you to take different sections of the program's website and incorporate them into your own site. You can choose from a High-Stakes Leaderboard, Player Search, Player Career Profile, Biggest Pots, Top Winners, Top Losers, Buddy List, High-Stakes Tables, Popular Players, and an Online Celebrity List. For example, if you want to display the High-Stakes Leaderboard on your website, simply choose the widget and copy and paste the HTML code into your blog or website’s CMS. Here is what the High-Stakes Leaderboard widget would look like for your website:

Another great feature of PokerTableRatings is the ability to review past hands of your opponents in a replayer. By default, PokerTableRatings has already sorted past hands by the biggest pots won and biggest pots lost when you search a player. If you want to quickly see how a particular player acted in some big hands in the past, you can do so with a click of a button. Similar to the way the Hands tab is sorted, the Opponents tab is listed by a player’s Best Friend and Worst Enemy. At a quick glance, you can see how much a player has won and lost to particular players.

If you want to beef up your hand history database, PokerTableRatings offers, for purchase, hand histories for specific sites, stakes, and several other criteria. Simply download the hands and boost your Heads-Up Display (HUD) statistics instantly with thousands of hands from the PokerTableRatings database.

There are many other features of the site, but too many to list in this review. We definitely like this site and what it does, but make sure to check with the site you play on and read its Terms and Conditions because we expect this type of shared database to be banned on many of the major rooms in the near future.

PokerTableRatings is definitely the one-stop shop for an online poker cash database.

Interview with Poker Table Ratings developers

PokerSoftware.com: Tell us about the origin of PokerTableRatings.com.

PokerTableRatings.com: PokerTableRatings launched with the vision to create the ultimate archived database of online poker hands. The goal has always been to provide the online poker community with a powerful resource to elevate their game by comparing their own skills and strategies to those of other players.

PokerSoftware.com: What feedback have you received from customers? How have you adjusted the product accordingly?

PokerTableRatings.com: PokerTableRatings has quickly grown to be one of the most popular poker research and resource portals on the internet. We have been expanding the coverage of our sites and stakes to accommodate a broader volume of the online poker player population.

PokerSoftware.com: What has been the biggest obstacle you have had to overcome in its development?

PokerTableRatings.com: Capturing all played online poker hands is an extremely difficult project. We have managed to overcome obstacles and hurdles along the way with a lot of creativity and persistence.

PokerSoftware.com: What separates the program from others like it in the industry?

PokerTableRatings.com: PokerTableRatings sets itself apart by providing players with powerful and intuitive tools powered by the largest online poker database in the industry.

PokerSoftware.com: What new features can we look forward to in the future?

PokerTableRatings.com: Our plans are focused on expanding across new sites and stakes as well as adding additional game types.

PokerSoftware.com: Talk about the importance of having hand histories on opponents. Why do some online poker sites frown upon this?

PokerTableRatings.com: Almost any serious online poker player uses Heads-Up Display (HUD) software, which gives them real-time stats on the playing behavior of their opponents. The more hand histories you have, the more accurate the stats that show up on your HUD will be. Some online poker sites would prefer that you limit yourself only to the hand histories that you actually played in. However, to truly get the power of an opponent’s stats, you need to have a lot of hands and that usually isn't possible if you limit the hand histories only to your played hands. Thus, players utilize their own effort to gather a lot of hands through observing tables, while those willing to pay for it will buy software to automate the process or just buy the hand histories directly from PokerTableRatings or a similar service.