Which Poker Rooms Allow HUDs in 2026: A Complete Breakdown

Where HUDs Are Allowed With Almost No Restrictions

Americas Cardroom and the Winning Poker Network

WPN—Americas Cardroom, PokerKing, and Black Chip Poker—still has the most lenient policy of all. There’s only one restriction, and it’s standard for the industry: HUDs can only display statistics for hands you’ve played yourself; no shared or pooled databases are allowed. WPN has not announced any plans to ban HUDs, and grinders consider ACR one of the last mid-stakes networks where a large database on a regular player does not violate the rules.

iPoker Network

RedStar, Titan, Bet365, William Hill, and Guts all run on the shared iPoker client, and the network allows Hand2Note, Hold’em Manager, and PokerTracker on all skins. iPoker also has its own basic built-in HUD, but it resets at the end of each session. It’s good for a quick assessment of an unfamiliar opponent, but useless for tracking a regular over time. Need a real history on a player? You can go back to a third-party tracker, and the network doesn’t interfere with that.

888poker

888poker allows PokerTracker, Hold’em Manager, and Hand2Note everywhere except on SNAP, the fast-table format: opponents change every hand there, so the accumulated picture of the table falls apart. 888’s own built-in HUD does work on SNAP, however. The change took place in January 2025, when 888 rolled out its own built-in HUD: a small circle next to each player’s avatar displays VPIP by default, and when you hover over it, it reveals PFR, 3-bet frequency, number of hands, and total winnings, with no configuration required (detailed analysis).

PokerStars

PokerStars still “allows” HUDs, but the word “allows” is a bit of a stretch here: the rules are laid out in extremely specific terms. Hand2Note, Hold’em Manager 3, and PokerTracker 4 work on PokerStars, but with limited functionality, and the tracker developers themselves disable features that the site doesn’t allow. The restrictions are fewer but more targeted. Dynamic HUD is out: the kind where the stats display shifts mid-hand depending on position or action. Also prohibited are automatically coloring players as “regs” or “fish,” panels with more than three colors, and any display based on known hole cards. The big picture: PokerStars doesn’t care if you know someone’s VPIP. What concerns them is something else: they want to ensure that the HUD doesn’t turn into a cheat sheet that hints at a decision during a hand, and that a regular player can’t be identified by a single color in the interface.

Chico Network — BetOnline, SportsBetting.ag

Chico’s written policy prohibits “software or tools that intercept or collect information,” a formulation that seems to explicitly ban HUDs. In practice, PokerTracker, Hand2Note, and DriveHUD work just fine on BetOnline and SportsBetting, and I’ve never seen anyone get banned for using them. The catch is the hand history converter that these trackers need to function, because Chico doesn’t export hand histories in a format that PT4 or HM3 can read directly. It is this converter specifically that is formally listed as prohibited software, even though the tracker running on top of it doesn’t bother anyone. Currently, no one is monitoring this loophole. Chico does ban people for auto-seating scripts, though. That’s a rule they actually enforce.

Winamax

Winamax rarely comes up in reviews of HUD policies because its audience is mostly European, but it’s worth knowing: Poker Copilot, Hand2Note, and PokerTracker all work there, along with Winamax’s own lightweight built-in HUD (VPIP, PFR, 3-bet). The only limitation is related to the format: neither the built-in nor third-party HUDs work in FLOOP, at Incognito tables, or in H.O.R.S.E. If you’re playing mixed games on Winamax, you’ll have to read the table the old-fashioned way, regardless of which software you’re running.

Where HUDs Are Strictly Banned

GGPoker

GGPoker bans third-party HUDs and trackers without exception. Any tool that helps you take actions at the table is off-limits. Instead, they offer SmartHUD, their own tool, and it’s far from a consolation prize: it displays VPIP, PFR, ATS, and 3-bets just like any external HUD, but it also breaks down the statistics by street, which most third-party trackers don’t do out of the box. In older reviews, GGPoker is sometimes portrayed as a “gray area.” This isn’t true, and it hasn’t been for a long time.

Partypoker

Partypoker’s ban is older than almost all the others on this list. They removed classic tracking HUDs back in May 2019 and haven’t brought them back. What’s interesting in 2026 is that the list of exceptions has become significantly more detailed. Tools such as Jurojin Poker, PartyCaption, Table Tamer, and StackAndTile are permitted because they only display what is already visible in the current hand: pot odds, stack-to-pot ratio, and table layout. But what’s prohibited when the client is open is precisely the training software you’d least expect: PioSOLVER, GTO Wizard, PokerSnowie, Flopzilla, and ICMIZER (current partypoker rules). Open any of these while the live client is running, and you’re violating the same rule as with a tracking HUD. If you want to check a solver in the middle of a session, close partypoker first.

CoinPoker

CoinPoker is the only one worth keeping an eye on because it has changed its policy twice. It started out with no trackers at all: hand reviews were only available after the session, with the client closed. On January 9, 2025, it became the first crypto poker room to lift this ban, and third-party HUDs worked without issue for about a year and a half. Then, on June 9, 2026, at 17:00 UTC, everything went back to the way it was: HUDs, solvers, equity calculators, mass data analysis tools, and basically anything that provides real-time statistical assistance are once again banned, and CoinPoker’s own system, PokerIntel, takes their place (analysis of the announcement). I only noticed this because my HUD stopped loading in the middle of a session. Two policy reversals in seventeen months isn’t a glitch. It’s a poker room that’s tailoring its rules to fit the tools it already has in place.

Several newer rooms—Stake Poker, Phenom Poker, BCPoker, WPT Global, PokerPlanets, and Pinco—skipped the permissive phase altogether. From the very start, they explicitly banned third-party software right in their terms of service, mainly because they’re geared toward casual players and didn’t want an experienced grinder with a hand database to gain an edge from day one. There’s nothing to track here in terms of policy changes, because there was nothing to reverse in the first place.

How Much Do Trackers Actually Cost?

If you end up in a room where HUDs are still allowed, the tracker itself won’t be free. PokerTracker 4 ranges from $64.99 for the Small Stakes Hold’em edition to $159.99 for the combined Hold’em & Omaha edition across all limits, a one-time license covering two computers, plus a year of updates. Hold’em Manager 3 is in a similar price range, roughly $60–160 depending on the edition. Hand2Note has switched to a subscription model: the Learner plan costs $15.99 per month when paid annually, but it is capped at 200,000 hands in the database and at $0.25 BB in cash games; Pro removes these restrictions for $39 per month. If you switch between ACR and iPoker, a single license covers both; costs only become noticeable if you pay extra for a room-specific converter on top of that, as is actually the case for players on Chico.

Patterns, Signals, Predictions

Compare GGPoker and CoinPoker, and the pattern becomes clear: as soon as a room builds its own functional HUD, banning third-party HUDs is pointless. Players aren’t going anywhere. GGPoker did this a long time ago. CoinPoker pulled this off twice. It allowed third-party HUDs until its own tool was released; it banned them as soon as that tool became available. Stake, Phenom, BCPoker, and other rooms emerging in 2024–2026 are skipping this cycle entirely, rolling out a ban right away. They never needed a permissive phase to build traffic.

But that’s not the whole picture, and I’d be lying if I said it predicts where things are headed next. iPoker, 888poker, and Winamax have also built their own functional HUDs, while still allowing third-party options to operate alongside them. PokerStars took a completely different approach: instead of replacing the HUD, it began controlling its behavior at the feature level—dynamic updates, auto-coloring—rather than banning the software category altogether. Five poker rooms have built their own HUDs, and their approaches have varied: GGPoker and CoinPoker have blocked third-party software, while iPoker, 888, and Winamax have allowed it to run alongside their own. PokerStars, however, has not built its own HUD at all.

So the answer to the question of which poker rooms allow HUDs in 2026 isn’t uniform across the industry. It varies from room to room: each operator decides for itself, and there is no overarching campaign behind this. If you’re choosing a room specifically for a tracker, I wouldn’t bet on the current “allowed” status lasting very long. Just check the date on the rules page you’re reading, not just its content. I read a page that was almost two months out of date, and it cost me a session.