The makers of PokerTracker have announced a new version of one of the most popular online poker tools – PokerTracker 4. The new version, PokerTracker 4 will be released in the fourth quarter of 2011.

What will the new version bring?

There are several new features and also big improvements to the existing features. The biggest improvement is going to be where you need PT the most – right at the table – the HUD is going to become more powerful and more dynamic. The HUD will become much cleaner, will work much better with multi tables and you will be able to display any kind of statistic. The number of possibilities in terms of statistics shown, is practically endless. The good news is there is going to be a number of pre-sets to choose from. The presets have been made in collaboration with the poker community. Nonetheless, you can arrange the statistics completely on your own - and this comfortably with drag and drop.

One new exciting feature, which you will find in PokerTracker 4, is the LeakTracker. Like the name suggests, it is being designed to help you to analyze your own gameplay and locate your leaks and to help you stop losing money in those spots. But it does not end only with analyzing your own gameplay. It also takes into account your opponents as well. I don’t know yet how exactly this is going to work, maybe you will get a warning with certain opponents? The sooner the PT 4 is released the sooner we will be able to say more on this. However, the LeakTracker sounds very promising and is potentially very valuable, since leaks are in many cases the deadliest points in one player’s profile. Anyway this new feature will be of great added value - similar software titles are being sold separately and come with a price tag of $50 and more. Here you get it without any extra cost.

The next announced improvement is the rework of hand replay function (currently it is not really a highlight) and further connection to a new feature – sharing. You will be able to share the hands with your friends and social networks with a single push of a button. This is definitely a nice idea, now let’s see how it will be implemented and how the community is going to react to this.

What is PokerTracker?

PokerTracker is one of the most popular hand tracking and analysis software titles. The company behind is certainly one of the most experienced companies in this field – they have been operating since 2002 and enjoy great trust by the online poker community.

Back in the early days of online poker, with lots of novice players present at the tables, there was a high demand for basic and elementary software like “calculators” and “indicators”. Today, the amount of players that are familiar with basic concepts of the game, such software has become obsolete and has practically disappeared from the market. PokerTracker on the other hand was always a preferred tool for players who already know the rules and the basic concept of the game, players who are evolving over time and want to track and analyze their own, and their opponents’ gameplay. And these are the points where PokerTracker shows an outstanding performance.

Alternative titles on the market are Poker Office since 2004, which has never been widely accepted, and since 2009 the Holdem Manager which has even managed to become number 1 in the field of hand tracking and hand analysis. With the release of PokerTracker 4 we expect to see a piece of software that can compete with Holdem Manager and hopefully outperform it! We are keen to see how this will reflect on future development of Holdem Manager.

Last but not least, it should be said, that PokerTracker helps you to improve your game and it also helps you to adjust much better to your opponents. At the end of the day, it also helps you to increase your winnings.