How the HUD works

PokerNow keeps a hand log for every table. Copilot reads it after each hand, counts what every player did, and keeps the totals in your browser, so the numbers sharpen the longer you play.

Reading a badge

• n=3: Hands seen so far. Below 5 hands the badge shows only this, because the numbers would mean little.
• 28/21: VPIP and PFR, in percent: how often they put money in before the flop, and how often they raised.
• AF2.4: Aggression factor: bets and raises for each call.
• Fish, Bluff, Slow, Bomb↑, F↑Turn. The first pattern tag, once Copilot has seen 10 hands. The glossary explains each one.
• The target button. Asks the AI for a quick read of that player, for 1 credit.

The badge colour gives the broad picture: red for loose and very aggressive (VPIP over 40%, AF over 3.5), blue for tight (VPIP under 20%), yellow for loose and passive (VPIP over 40%, AF under 1.5), and grey for everyone else or anyone with too few hands.

Player styles in your notes

Open a player’s notes in PokerNow and Copilot writes their stats at the top, above anything you wrote yourself, and sets the note colour by style. PokerNow only allows notes with PokerNow Plus; without it, the stats still show on the badges and in the side panel.

• Brown, tricky. Tagged as slowplaying strong hands.
• Red, loose-aggressive. VPIP over 38% and AF over 3. The wildest of these are the maniacs.
• Purple, 3-bet heavy. 3-bets over 12% and raises over 22% of hands.
• Blue, tight-aggressive. VPIP under 24%, PFR over 15%, AF over 1.8. Other tight players under 20% VPIP, the nits, are blue too.
• Yellow, calling station. VPIP over 38% and AF under 1.5.
• Orange, loose-passive. VPIP over 32% and PFR under 12%.
• Green, solid. VPIP between 20% and 34%, PFR 12% or more.
• Pink, unknown. Fewer than 5 hands, or no clear style yet.

The checks run in this order and the first match wins, so a loose player who slowplays is brown, not red.

Why small samples mislead

After ten hands, a player who joined three pots shows a VPIP of 30%. They might really play 15% of hands and have caught a good run, or 45% and have been card-dead. Each extra hand narrows it down, slowly. Here is roughly how far the true VPIP of a 25% player can sit from what the badge shows:

Copilot holds back for the same reason. The seat badge shows no numbers before 5 hands; the side panel, your PokerNow notes and the AI get a player’s numbers from 3 hands, marked with the hand count. Tags wait for 10 hands, and the AI is told how many hands each read rests on and rates its own confidence to match. Rare spots fill in slowest: fold to c-bet only counts hands where the player faced a flop bet.

Hints as the hand plays

The Edge indicator in the side panel turns the stats into short reminders for the spot, such as a player who folds to most flop bets, a calling station to value-bet thinly, or a low stack-to-pot ratio that leaves little room to manoeuvre.