Poker Tracker is a cool bit of software that greatly simplifies the process of analyzing your online poker play. Most of the big poker sites provide a way of requesting files containing information about the hands you've played and many of them also offer tournament results. Poker Tracker automatically imports many of these files and organizes them in a way that will let you see exactly how you've been playing (and give you insight on the play of your competitors!).

Poker Tracker tracks the results of both your ring game and tournament play on several sites (see their web site for a list of the applicable sites). The information stored in the program's database is so extensive that we can't cover it all here, but it does accumulate useful statistics regarding your profits, the success of your play broken down by starting hands and seat position, and how much money you made by final hand results. And you can check out all of this information for opponents you've previously played against to get idea of their playing styles.

It's a great little program and you can try it for free! Visit PokerTracker.com and download their fully-functional trial version. You can use the demo to track up to 1000 hands before making your decision to purchase (and you will want to purchase Poker Tracker).