HEM2 - Do I/Don't I ?

[Supernova]

I've had HEM1 for a few years , I'm not a techie and to say I struggled with it is an understatement. Anyway the HUD part is now broken.

The HEM people are obv more geared up to HEM2 now so, I've been offered HEM2 at a reduced rate which I have been given on trial for a month, seems fair enough but given that I know I'll get very very frustrated setting it up & will tilt badly and there will surely be tears, so, what I'd like to ask you peeps is - will it be worth it or should I muddle along without? I'm grinding & holding my own at the moment, far from making a living yet but trying, yes I know I'm probably at a disadvantage but the thought of all the pain trying to set it up even at a simple level is sending shudders through my veins.

Yes I know there are video's to help, I've watched a few this morning, I've managed to get it working on Stars but I can't figure it out how to get it working on ipoker & put my aliases together. Yes I am that bad!

So peeps do I/ don't I? If I do can you peeps help with what is obviously going to be a few painful posts on here?

cheers, Shaz -xXx-

[TL900]

Ive heard very good things from a few friends about pokertracker 4, maybe you should check that out too.

As for should you/shouldn't you there are alot of top players who don't use a HUD, however it is a small price to pay when it gives you so much information and are able to use the data to your advantage. I don't know how many tables you play but if you play lets say under 6 then you can get along without it (but just take extensive notes imo) anything more than 6 tables and HEM/PT become very useful imo when taking notes becomes a little harder in game.

[titaniumbean]

hem2 = the resource hog of the world


SSD is a must.


if you do not  understand the second line. hmmmm keep hem 1 lol

fwiw I still use h1 over h2 just because there were lots of slowdown issues/and initial bugs (obv snap bought it because h1 was so good). pt4 getting good reviews too so worth looking around.

[pleno1]

pt4 is amazeballs.

[Fenix35]

only reason i updated from hem1 to hem2 was so that my hud would also work on omaha tournaments i was playing too - as a tournament player probably not worth the update but for cash grinder with a huge database where u want to analyse this and that might be more worth ur time

[titaniumbean]

only reason i updated from hem1 to hem2 was so that my hud would also work on omaha tournaments i was playing too - as a tournament player probably not worth the update but for cash grinder with a huge database where u want to analyse this and that might be more worth ur time

not sure if serious

you're in vegas lad, get back to grinding baduuuecy xx gl

[Supernova]

only reason i updated from hem1 to hem2 was so that my hud would also work on omaha tournaments i was playing too - as a tournament player probably not worth the update but for cash grinder with a huge database where u want to analyse this and that might be more worth ur time

So if you play both then obv HEM is better than PT?

[Supernova]

hem2 = the resource hog of the world


SSD is a must.


if you do not  understand the second line. hmmmm keep hem 1 lol

fwiw I still use h1 over h2 just because there were lots of slowdown issues/and initial bugs (obv snap bought it because h1 was so good). pt4 getting good reviews too so worth looking around.

Thank you Tittybean and lol yes I've heard of SSD. Not 100% sure on what to do with it tho! My guess would be to store your database on? Yes/No?


Thanks for all the comments thus far. Pleno, I will look at PT4 but having read the above about HEM2 working with Omaha (my love, my downfall) I feel the HEM is gonna sneak it.

By the way, I now have it running on most networks so if anyone was scared of chipping in, feel free, I'm not going to jump on you!

[titaniumbean]

if you have an ssd it will just improve performance exponentially compared to a normal hd.

dbs can get big quick, and hem2 tried to be clever by doing more stuff but that in turn made it really resource intensive.

[Supernova]

if you have an ssd it will just improve performance exponentially compared to a normal hd.

dbs can get big quick, and hem2 tried to be clever by doing more stuff but that in turn made it really resource intensive.

so that's a minus for HEM & a + for PT4 then. Thank you.

[titaniumbean]

well h1 still runs fine on a normal hd. but yah pt4 does seem where it's at.

[Dry em]

Drop me a message Shaz if you're still having problems setting it up on iPoker

Karl

[tikay]

Drop me a message Shaz if you're still having problems setting it up on iPoker

Karl

So good.

You should run a poker site, you really should.

[Supernova]

Drop me a message Shaz if you're still having problems setting it up on iPoker

Karl

So good.

You should run a poker site, you really should.

Thanks Karl I will. Mr Kendall isn't wrong either 

[Supernova]

if you have an ssd it will just improve performance exponentially compared to a normal hd.

dbs can get big quick, and hem2 tried to be clever by doing more stuff but that in turn made it really resource intensive.

I've waited a while for HEM2 to get a little less buggy; recently I started looking at it again. I took the opportunity to get the recommended specs of their website - and then e-mailled it to a specialist PC builder for their thoughts. This was their response:

Firstly a solid state hard drive is a definite requirement, RAID we would suggest is not  -  spreading everything across two drives just leads to your losing everything if one fails.  The solid state hard drives boot up the whole system in a matter of seconds so we would recommend a 256Gb Samsung 840 Pro Solid State Hard Drive and a 2Tb Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive.  We would also recommend 16Gb RAM.  The processor could be either a core i5 or an i7 depending on your budget.
 
With regard to using four screens, we recommend an AMD Radeon Gigabyte HD 7970 3072MB graphics card with windforce anti turbulence cooling. The Operating System could be Windows 8 or Windows 7, whichever is your preference.
 
This kind of spec, to include water cooling, is obviously not going to come cheap and would include DVDRW, triple aerial wireless, usb2 and 3, network point etc. If you are not already fixed up, we would be happy to quote you properly.

Oh. This sounds like it's way to techy & expensive.........