It's asked over and again on poker forums: what are the Mac OS X options for poker software? Here are the choices that I'm aware of:
Poker Rooms for Mac OS X:
- Full Tilt Poker has full-featured Mac software. As well as their outstanding and innovative user interface you also get all the advanced options such as saving hand histories for later analysis and tracking. The downside: the minimum stake level for ring games is pretty high, especially for Hold'em Limit players. That's not so good if you have a small bankroll.
- PokerStars has native Mac software. It's good, although not quite as slick as Full Tilt. PokerStars is an excellent choice for micro-stakes, with plenty of tables as low as $0.02/$0.05.
- Party Poker can run within a browser, and therefore can be used on the Mac. On the Mac, however, it lacks some of the features I expect, such as table filters, table resizing, and saving hand histories.
- Absolute Poker also has a low-feature version that runs within a browser on the Mac.
Poker Tracking and Analysis Software for Mac OS X:
- Naturally I'll start with Poker Copilot for Mac OS X - it's my software, after all. Poker Copilot is the only poker hand history analysis software for Mac OS X that supports both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, as well as cash games and tournaments.
- There's also MacPoker Pro. Although this showed early promise, the developer seems to have abandoned it. Apparently it chokes and becomes unusable due to slowness once you've got 10,000 hands or so in your hand history.
- FlopZoom caters only for tournament players on Full Tilt Poker. At the time of writing there is no PokerStars support.
My preferences are Full Tilt Poker for tournaments, PokerStars for micro-stakes ring games, and Poker Copilot for Mac OS X to track my play and analyse my poker statistics.
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Or for free, you can run Sun's VirtualBox. I use it at work all the time - only supports Intel-based Macs, but works a treat for both XP and Vista. It's open source and has a vibrant user/developer community.
Hi Mate,
Just wondering if you could put up some pics of the HUD in action. As in show some screen shots of the table you are playing and how the stats are shown.
Cheers
-K
There's some screenshots of the current HUD here: http://pokercopilot.com/screenshots.html (scroll to the end)
If you want screenshots of the currently-under-development HUD, sorry, these are not available yet! :-)
I'm pretty sure Absolute Poker works on macs, and probably some others from the ongame network.
I'm just starting to play poker and am playing with the pokerstrategy.com startup investment on Party Poker. I'm not a huge fan of their applet (or Java applets in general), it seems to crash the latest webkit pretty frequently. It's more stable on Firefox, though. Also, it does save the hand history (to /Applications/PartyGaming/PartyPoker/HandHistory), so it would be great to have a Mac analyzer tool parsing those files (wink, wink :).
If you need a hand, or an example file, shoot an email to my gmail address (username jarkster).
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