Hey... For GOD knows whatever reason, I just started using PT (again) about a month and a half ago... And I don't know what the fuck I was doing without it...

Anyways, this is probably a stupid newbie question, but hell, I'm a newbie (sorta), so here goes...

I have a pretty dedicated "poker laptop" that has all kinds of disk space, etc (80 GB-porn=... crap... hope I left enough for PT...)... My thought came about as I was sitting at Party table after Party table w/ 15% VPIP (believe it or not)... I jumped around for an hour or so, took a couple stacks... I was freakin on fire... But I couldn't really find anywhere to play, and it's hard datamining for a half hour or so when ALL of the tables are so bad... I was trying to think of a way I could get a more "insta-table image", and the best way I could think of was to have stats on ALL of the players for a long time... So, I decided that, instead of playing, I would open 4 tables on Party, Empire, and Multi, and just datamine the hell out of them all night... Even though I'm SURE I won't have significant stats on all of the people at future tables, I'm pretty sure that, eventually, I'll start having a lot of stats on 5 or 6 guys at a table at a time, which sounds like a good start...

My main question is... are there any drawbacks to this method...? I'm not saving the hand histories, so disk space shouldn't be an issue... But, are the MASSIVE amounts of players and stats I'm going to accumulate gonna dick up my PT...? Is there a way to over-stat the thing...?

Thanks...

I suppose there the logic that the people you will have stats are the people who play sufficiently well that they can to some extent play well enough that they hold onto their money and so are more likely to play poker more often than the complete novices.

Oh, and what is all this 'postgresSQL' stuff, sounds scary, would I want to do it?

Molina

I'm not so worried about the ultra-newbie who just pisses his money away, as I'm sure i'll find him anyway... But, I'm sure a pretty large % of players play more than 1 day and say fuck it, I ain't playin again... I think it may be a great advantage if I could sit down at a table and already have 100+ hands against a majority of my opponents... For example, I think I added hands on about 400 players last night...

BTW... I don't know what the PostgresSQL means either.... I apologize for my computer retardedness...

Did I read that right that you have 80GB of porn?

Was it all of jiggly Costa Rican women?

Aha, right. How many hand histories will it usually take to exceed 2GB?

Molina