Are HUD displays useful?

[kurosh]

I'm taking a break from limit to play some NL SNGs. Are the HUD displays like PV and GT+ of any use here? For party, since it's only 10 hands a limit, it seems like you'd need to play with them a lot to get any sort of decent stats on them. Does anyone use them?

[pergesu]

I don't think they're very useful. You might though, who knows.

Thought party was cracking down on those things anyway.

[HesseJam]

I used them a lot on the ring games and they are mainly useful when multitabling to see what the tone of the table is. For me they are a bit overrated and I think many players use them because they think that they give them more control over the table than they actually have. I am using them less now.

I never use them for SnGs.

[clutch]

I used PT and PV for the last 8 months or so that I played limit ring. I switched to SNG's 6 or 7 weeks ago and haven't used them at all since my first session. I don't think the stats are nearly as useful for reads in SNG's.

[kurosh]

So what do the people who 8-table and 12-table do? Just pay attention to all the tables?

[curtains]

I think its a huge waste of time and energy using them and could turn out to be misleading.

[KingDan]

On a borderline decision, I just skim through the hand history box.

[EasilyFound]

what is HUD? i'm not familiar with that acronym.

[kurosh]

Heads-up display.

[EasilyFound]

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Heads-up display.

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Thanks, but I now I don't understand what people are talking about. What is a Heads-up display?