Poker Table Overlay

Overview

The Poker Table Overlay lets you display key information from your database directly on your poker tables. This "heads-up display" lets you see the most relevant information about your opponents without switching to the Live Tracker window. You can customize the display so that you see only the statistics that you're most interested in.

The Overlay allows you to see several categories of information:

Statistics - view your opponents' preflop and postflop tendencies
Odds - view your pot odds and/or your hand's current rank and outs
Player moves - an extremely useful feature if you're multi-tabling; the overlay shows every action by your opponents on every street:
- x = check
- c = call
- b = bet
- r = raise
- a = all-in
- | = separator for each street (preflop | flop | turn | river)
- bet amount can be useful for no-limit and tournament players
Mucked cards
- On some sites (Party Poker, Empire Poker, PokerStars), you can see all players' cards that were mucked at showdown. The sites say that they do this to help prevent collusion, but, of course, it can be very useful to know what hands your opponents took to a showdown.
- Ordinarily, you need to manually review the hand history to see your opponents' mucked cards. PokerOffice can read those hand histories in real time and display your opponents' mucked cards on the screen immediately after showdown.
- Note:You must turn on the mucked cards feature via the overlay settings. Go to the overlay settings and check the box where it says "Show mucked cards".

Settings

From the Main Program, you can customize the Overlay settings by clicking the "Customize Poker Table Overlay" icon or by selecting "Customize Poker Table Overlay" from the Live Tracker menu. A new window will open, giving you a number of configuration options. Note that any changes that you make will generally take effect at the beginning of the next hand.

Choose Statistics to Display

The "available statistics" panel shows all of the statistics that can be displayed in the overlay. Select a statistic from the "available statistics" panel and click "add" to move that statistic to the "selected statistics" panel. All of the statistics in the "selected statistics" panel will be displayed on your overlay.

You have several options for working with the selected statistics. Select a statistic in the selected statistics panel and then:

Click the "up" or "down" buttons to change the order of the selected statistics.
Click the "remove" button to remove that statistic from the selected statistics panel.
Type text into the "Name:" box to change the way that the statistic will be displayed on the Overlay.

Click the "clear" button to remove all of the selected statistics.

Click the "filter data" button to limit the data that is displayed for each statistic. Please refer to the Live Tracker | Customize Data help section for more information on these filtering options.

For a definition of the available statistics, please see the Glossary. Note that for most statistics there is a "session" statistic, reflecting only statistics from the current session, and a general statistic, reflecting all of the data in your PokerOffice database (as modified by any filter settings you may be using). So "Saw Flop %" will show the percentage of hands where this player saw the flop out of all hands that you have recorded for this player; "Saw Flop % Session" will show the percentage of hands where this player saw the flop out of all hands in the current session only.

Customize the Statistics Display

The Statistics panel in the lower left of the Settings window allows you to customize the way that the Overlay statistics are displayed on your poker tables. Choose the Text Color, Background (transparent or opaque) and Font Size that look best on your particular poker tables.

You can choose to display statistics in either one or two rows by clicking on the appropriate radio button; if you choose to display two rows of data, you can choose how many statistics are displayed on each row by typing a number into the "Nr of stats on row 1" box. Use this option together with the up and down buttons to customize exactly how the statistics are displayed on your table. By default, PokerOffice places a legend (i.e. a list of the statistics being used) in the upper left of your poker tables. If you wish to remove this legend, uncheck the box that reads "Draw names on table."

A checkbox allows you to choose whether to display player icons on the overlay (read more about icons here).

Click the "Show Own Player" box to display your own statistics on the table. Note that as your database grows, calculating and auto-rating your own player becomes quite performance-intensive. You may therefore wish to exclude your own total stats from the overlay (since it is quite redundant when playing live).

Finally, you can choose to display a table summary; as with the Live Tracker windows, this will display the table average for your selected statistics.

Customize the Odds Display

The Odds panel in the bottom center of the Settings window allows you to customize the way that Odds are displayed on your poker tables. Choose the Colors and Background (transparent or opaque) that look best on your particular poker tables.

You can choose to display the pot odds (which compares the total pot size to the amount that you must put into the pot to call the current bet). You can also choose to show your hand's current rank and your outs to improve to a better hand.

Player Moves

PokerOffice can display all of your opponents' actions for the current hand directly on the poker table. This is invaluable when you're multitabling and you want to quickly review the past action before deciding on your action.

Choose the Text Color, Background (transparent or opaque) and Font Size that look best on your particular poker tables. Determine whether you want to display only moves (probably best for limit hold'em) or moves and amount (probably best for no-limit and tournament play).

The players' actions are displayed as follows:

x = check
c = call
b = bet
r = raise
a = all-in
| = separator for each street (preflop | flop | turn | river)

General Options

On some sites, the Overlay statistics can obscure the showdown display. You may therefore wish to use the "Hide Stats at Showdown" option.

On Party Poker you can determine how often the statistics are drawn by using the "Update Text Frequency" drop down box. If you experience flickering, you might try changing the frequency to a higher number; note that this will increase the load on your processor, the higher the number the more load for the processor. The default value is 4.

Use the "Show Mucked Cards" option to see what cards your opponents mucked with at showdown. If you're playing on a site where your opponents' cards are displayed in your hand histories (Party Poker, Empire Poker or PokerStars) PokerOffice can read those hand histories, and display your opponents' mucked cards on the screen immediately after showdown. Use the Show Mucked cards for 'x' Seconds drop down box to determine how long the mucked cards will be displayed.

File options: the buttons at the bottom of the Overlay settings window allow you to create a New settings panel; Open a saved panel; Save or Save as your current panel; Delete a saved panel, or Cancel your changes.