I bought this package. I know a lot of folks have used it with Hold’em. I recall CC liked to mention VP$IP. The package is valuable as a record keeping tool. This can vary as importing can be either labor intensive or automated. As to the bells and whistles it hypes, I don’t see it working very well. The flop games may do it better.
On the plus side it lets you manipulate how you see the data. It has a fair degree of flexibility in that. I’m using it on Stars which is automated and provides a very easy data collection setup. The package has value in saving you from the scut work of maintaining some form of an Excel setup that would be less accurate and far more labor intensive.
Here is something that I wouldn’t get any other way. It was easy to put together using the tools provided.
You can see that connected cards don’t play all that well for me. That is even when there is a premium card in the mix. Premium in stud is the Broadway cards. And it well demonstrates that even when you make a hand with the weaker ones, you are subject to trouble. Demonstrates a leak that I need to pay more attention to.
My real grip that ran through some insulting email from both sides concerned forced bringins. I told him he wasn’t getting it right. He challenged that. I documented an almost 100 hand session where the Stars’ data and his came up with almost identical percentages. In those hands I had the force bringin for 17 hands. There is no way the data should be almost identical