Heads-Up Display (HUD) is an easy-to-use and helpful tool that displays on the poker table, it collects information about how you and your opponents are playing.
The HUD will display the following information:
- The style of play of your opponent’s preflop
- The aggression of opponent’s post-flop
- How lucky your opponents are in the game
Game Play Styles
- Players who usually play a small number of only the best hands are called tight players.
- Players who often play a variety of hands are called loose players.
- Players who tend to avoid confrontation and play non-aggressively are called passive players.
- Players who frequently raise preflop are called aggressive players.
HUD game play styles are based on past hands played by the player, and suggest how a player is likely, but not always going to play a hand.
The HUD defines 5 game styles: Nit, Rock, Shark, Auto-caller, Maniac.
Nit - Very tight player
Plays a small percentage of hands.
Rock — Tight passive player
Plays an average number of hands, raises rarely.
Shark — Tight-aggressive player
Aggressively plays large number of hands.
Auto-caller — Loose-passive player
Plays a large number of hands without raising regularly.
Maniac — Loose-aggressive player
Aggressively plays most hands, raises or re-raises opponents more often than calls.
The formula’s to determine your style varies depending on game type and players, details for the formulas are below:
Aggression
The HUD defines 3 levels of aggression: Low, Average, High.
Each aggression has its own color, which the game style icon is colored in.
Note: AFq (Aggression frequency) is the percentage of the ratio of aggressive to passive actions postflop
Low aggression
A player copies other people's bets more often than he makes a bet or raise himself.
The style icon turns blue.
The formulas are the same for all games: AFq < 30
For example, for a player with nit style and low aggression, the game style icon will look like this:
Average aggression
A player bets and raises regularly but not constantly.
The style icon turns silver.
The formulas are the same for all games: AFq 30-60
For example, for a player with shark style and normal aggression, the game style icon will look like this:
High aggression
Bets or raises much more often than copying others' bets.
The style icon turns orange.
The formulas are the same for all games: AFq > 60
For example, for a player with maniac style and low aggression, the game style icon will look like this:
Luck
The HUD determines 2 levels of player's luck: Lucky and Unlucky.
The luck level is shown as an animation on the player's cards.
Luck shows how often a player has won pots in the last 10 hands.
Lucky
A player who has been recently lucky.
In the last 10 hands, the player has won more than 10 bb in 3 unique hands.
Unlucky
A player who has been unlucky lately.
In the last 10 hands, the player has lost more than 10 bb in 3 unique hands.
When you hover over the style or luck icon, a tooltip with the description of the current HUD data will be shown.
If there is no style/aggression/luck, then the corresponding lines are not shown. This feature is only available on Windows/MAC clients.
As mentioned previously, the HUD will populate once 10 hands have been played and for yourself and all players who have been at the table for 10 hands, this will display on all client types.
HUD information is only stored at session level and resets when you leave the table, no statistical data is held on players.
Click on a player’s nameplate to display your own and your opponent’s statistical information.
If you click on the arrow below the information icon you can view the details displayed on the tooltip for each player.
You can use the statistics to identify your strengths/weaknesses and improve your playing skills or to analyze your opponents, looking for information to determine if you are ahead or behind when playing them.
The following statistics are displayed in the information window:
- VPIP (voluntary put into pot) increases when a player could fold but instead commits money to the pot preflop.
- PFR (Preflop raise) – the percentage of raises preflop;
- 3bet PF (3bet preflop) – the percentage of 3bet's (third bet) preflop;
- Total AFq (Total aggression frequency) – suggest: percentage of players actions that are bets or raises, in relation to calls and folds
- Hands – the number of hands in the session/tournament;
- WON – the player's win/loss.
Under the statistics, brief descriptions of the player's game style, aggression and luck are displayed.
If you click on the information icon in client help will load.
You can activate and disable the HUD via your settings under table, display options on Windows/MAC clients.
Or on settings under other on mobile devices.
