[donkeyradish]

I have purchased PokerOffice and PokerTracker at different times. There is an overlap in what they provide.

Some key differences are:

PokerOffice monitors live play and gives you pot odds at each round.

PokerTracker only reads hand histories. But it provides a far more comprehensive analysis on games that you have played.

I find that I can manage without PokerOffice. Pokertracker gives me what I need.

The key benefit of a program like Pokertracker is to find out how you are doing in the short/medium/long term. If you don't know how you are doing you will never find a reason to change how you play.

Pokertracker allowed me to address several issues with how I originally started playing.

However it does not do so overnight. You probably need 10,000 hands before there is enough data to objectively conclude anything at all, and thats still quite a small sample.