1) Sharkscope

Go fishing with this excellent guide to sit-and-go stats This is an online resource to be found at www.sharkscope.com and is specific to sit-and-gos. One of the best features of Sharkscope is to find fishy tables at PokerStars and on the Cryptologic network. Simply select the level of buyin you want to play and click Tournament Search. The results will then show how many fish or sharks (the bottom or top 15% of players) are at each STT table that is currently waiting to fill up. It’s also useful for assessing the long-term profitability of the players at your table once the tournament has started, giving you another indicator of how good or bad that player is.

2) PokerAce HUD

Be a wolf in sheep’s clothing with this skin This application produces a skin which maps over your poker table and displays the data gathered by Poker Tracker directly over each player’s position. This eradicates the need to have the Game Time window running at the same time, so you don’t have to keep clicking from one window to another if you have a small screen. However, it does require a little perseverance to get it running properly. Go to www.pokeracesoftware.com where you can download a 30-day trial version, or register for the full version for $25.

3) Handgrabbers

Let the software do the hard work so you don’t have to Once you’ve established the type of game you want to play at and the level of the blinds, you can download handgrabbers which will simply open as many relevant tables as possible and gather all the information from them, even when you’re not playing. Crucially, they also open new tables automatically as other tables break up, meaning they are constantly mining for as much data as possible. If knowledge is power, then handgrabbers are superchargers. Search the Poker Tracker forums to find a handgrabber for your particular poker room.