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Recently a friend of mine purchased Poker Tracker 3 and started using its Heads-Up-Display on PokerStars. The poker clients that work 100% with this software are PokerStars, FullTilt, Everest, Pacific, iPoker, and Cereus (absolute and UB). The software works on Cake, but does not allow HUD displays, which is a shame because this is the casino site I play most regularly at. My friend, who plays mostly SNG tournaments, has already had great success using the HUD. He played a $12 180-man SNG and took 2nd place, as well as a few positive sessions multitabling one and two-table SNG’s. While this success is obviously over too small of a sample size to be representative of the software’s aid, he expressed a serious excitement over it. He told me that it really helps him play on his reads. While the site gathers information on your opponents as you play with them, you still have to apply it correctly to have it benefit your poker performance. In one situation, he had planned to re-steal from a late-position opener, but then glances at the HUD stats. He noticed that the player had only raised once in the last 60 hands, so instead of playing the guessing game, he decided to credit the player with a good hand and folded his cards. You can customize the quick stats on the HUD to whatever you feel will help you the most. And the more you play, the more information it collects for you. Unlike training sites, Poker Tracker only charges you a one-time fee of $90 to purchase the software, which you can use on up to 2 computers. If you’re serious about online poker, this seems like a no brainer purchase. The only real downside is that it could turn into a crutch if you rely on it too heavily and could certainly affect your live poker play.

Outsourcery, one of the leading providers of dedicated servers, managed hosting and hosting IT communications, has launched its new Dedicated Windows 2008 Servers. This solution, which got favorable reviews, will provide businesses in United Kingdom the opportunity to host websites and business applications on their own dedicated server within the secure state of the art data center by Outsourcery. The good thing about this is that the clients won’t have to install or buy it themselves.

The increasing costs associated with managing in-house servers have challenged companies in managing their operations. This led to the increasing demand by small and medium-sized companies on running applications on servers provided by outsourcing companies such as Outsourcery.

The Dedicated Windows 2008 Server gives complete reliability and maximum performance without the need to purchase and install expensive hardware and hiring in house IT staff to maintain the servers.

Data security is still assured despite availing of this service since there’s no need to share the server with other companies. The customers can easily log on to the server through any remote location and have complete control over the applications and services.

Outsourcery will be installing Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 OS as a standard. The customers are still given the option to upgrade the server if this is required by their business operations. This gives flexibility in terms of availing of advanced virtualization features of Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise.