[Aaron W.]

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a Friend of mine and i are about to begin work on a stud tracking program. i have seen other threads in this forum and know there is some interest, but would appreciate more input.
first of all, although it would be very useful, starting hand analysis seems overly cumbersome.in holdem there are only 169 possible SH combinations while in stud there are 60 for a pair of aces plus 1 other card alone. so we are leaning towards scrapping SH analysis( as well as known starting hands for opponents.)
Basically we are thinking of tracking earnings and a HUD that shows % c 4th,AG factor,% go2 sho, % win sho, And table stats.
we are also considering a dead card tracker possibly as an add on.( i dont consider it cheating because anyone can keep cards in 1 game. it will just make multitabling easier).
we are wondering what people would pay for this software and any CONSTRUCTIVE comments would be greatly appreciated.

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With regards to organizing the starting hand analysis, I think it can be done in a reasonable way (says the guy who isn't a programmer). I don't think anyone really wants to know what they've done holding exactly QQ8, but they just want to do know what they've done with QQx. So all you need are various sorting parameters that can be turned on and off individually. The user can help specify by telling it to find hands that match ALL OF THE FOLLOWING or AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1) Up-card (2-A)
2) Suitedness (one suit, two suit, three suits)
3) Pair in the hole (Y/N)
4) 3-straight (ie, T98)
5) Gapped straight (iem T87, T86)
6) Rolled up (Y/N)

And for Stud/8 (which you should definitely include):

7) 8-lows
8) 7-better-lows
9) Pair + low/ace

Once you've flagged a hand with the various markers, searching and sorting should be very fast and painless.