GGPoker does not allow HUDs. Here is how to actually study.

On most classic poker networks, serious players run a heads-up display: live stats floating over every opponent, fed by a tracker database. GGPoker took a different path. Its rules prohibit real-time third-party assistance while you play, HUDs included, and the client is built to keep it that way. You are expected to play on your own wits, and so is everyone else.

Players coming from other sites sometimes read that as "you cannot study on GG". The opposite is closer to the truth: what is restricted is real-time help, not studying. GG itself hands you a complete record of your play through the PokerCraft export, and reviewing your own game after the session is what every study site, coach and training video has always been about.

Why the no-HUD environment is not bad news

A HUD's edge comes from data on opponents. On a network where nobody has that, the field is level, and the players who win are the ones with the fewest leaks in their own game. That moves the battleground from "who has the bigger database" to "who studies better between sessions". For a recreational player with limited hours, that is good news: fixing your own three biggest leaks is worth more than a thousand stats on strangers, and it is entirely under your control.

A post-session routine that actually works

1. Export while it is fresh. After a session block, export your hands from PokerCraft (step-by-step guide here). Same day is ideal; you still remember why you made the calls you made.
2. Review the flagged spots, not everything. Going hand by hand through 2,000 hands is how study habits die. Let a tool grade the decisions and show you the hands where real money leaked, then spend your attention there.
3. Look for patterns by position and street. One bad call is noise. Losing money every time you defend the big blind, or every turn where you face a raise, is a pattern, and patterns are fixable.
4. Turn mistakes into drills. Reading about a leak rarely fixes it. Replaying the same class of spot until the right action is automatic does. Spaced repetition works for poker exactly like it works for languages.
5. Check the trend, not the results. Winrate swings wildly; decision accuracy does not. If your graded accuracy climbs month over month, the money follows eventually, whatever this week's cards did.

The honest tool landscape for GG players

PokerCraft is free and built in, and it is a fine scoreboard: graphs, positions, a luck meter. It shows what happened. It does not grade decisions, find leaks or build practice, and its graphs show results before rake.

Desktop trackers (PokerTracker, Hold'em Manager) will import your GG hands for review, but their core is the HUD you cannot use there, plus a Windows database to maintain. You pay for a lot of machinery that never gets switched on.

GTO trainers teach theory against solver ranges and are excellent at it, at professional prices. They drill generic spots; they do not read your own hands.

PokerInsights (that is us) was built for exactly this environment: you import the PokerCraft export in your browser, every decision gets graded, leaks are collected by position, street and texture, and your own mistakes become trainer drills. Post-session by design, nothing running next to your client.

The one habit that beats every tool

Fifteen focused minutes after every session block: export, open the flagged hands, understand one mistake well enough to explain it out loud. That is the whole secret. Tools make it faster and more precise, but the habit is what compounds.