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[QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 795806, member: 22087"]
What program?  PokerTracker doesn't help you pick soft tables, though others do.  And from what I can tell, most of these programs are banned because they use a public database.

Basically, if you collect the stats yourself it's OK to use (so PokerTracker is fine).  If the program collects stats and shares them via a public database, it's banned on PokerStars.  I know Poker-Edge is such software.

The only real con I see with PokerTracker is that you might start using it as a crutch.  That is, instead of observing a table someone might watch TV and then rely only on their collected stats to make decisions.  The stats you see are more reliable than your own memory, but there's more to it than that.

But being able to see *how* people have played is a huge advantage.  If someone has a huge aggression factor, you can make bigger moves with less of a hand.  And if you see that someone is weak post flop you can steal steal steal.

PokerTracker comes in handy when you're playing several tables and someone who you don't remember acting yet has raised under the gun.  In that situation the first thing I do is look at his VP$IP (voluntarily put money in pot) percentage.  If it's high, then he's an idiot and I have nothing to fear.  If his VP$IP is 8% then he's very tight and I'm only getting involved with something big.
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