Poker Copilot 3.02 Now Available

Poker Copilot 3.02 is now available to download.

The first time you run this update, your Poker Copilot database will be updated. This will take a long time. You can’t use Poker Copilot until the update is finished. As a guide, my database of 600,000 hands takes about 30 minutes to update on a current model iMac with a SSD hard drive.

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Step 1 (for ring games) and Step 6 (for tournaments) take the most time.

What’s changed:

  • A new menu option “Tools” -> “Recalculate Statistics” will update past hands with new and revised statistics.
  • Fully translated into Spanish (España).
  • Bluff Room Poker now supported (Merge Network partner)
  • Updated text for cbet to “cbet on flop” where appropriate
  • Moved player icons config to a separate preferences panel
  • Improved the HUD font chooser
  • Reordered stats in dashboard and HUD into more logical groupings
  • Removed decimal points from display of 3-bet and CR stats
  • Added # of tourneys played in session to right-hand menu bar info
  • Added support for Coral Poker (but untested)

And one more thing:

  • Added two new statistics: continuation bet on turn and folded to continuation bet on turn

What’s fixed:

  • Fixes to all-in EV calculation on PokerStars multi-way pots with antes and an all-in big blind posting.
  • Added detection of ante size to Merge Network tournaments

Update Instructions:

  1. Download the latest version here.
  2. Open the downloaded file.
  3. Drag the Poker Copilot icon to the Applications icon. If prompted to replace an existing version, confirm that you do want to replace.

Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.

Poker Copilot in Spanish

The next Poker Copilot update will be available in Spanish (the variety from Spain, as well as the Latin American variety):

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This update should be available later today or tomorrow.

Now both the Poker Copilot website and Poker Copilot itself are in Spanish.

 

 

Continuation Bet on Turn? or Double-Barrel Bet?

Loyal Poker Copilot user Sébastien asks a good question:

Why don’t you say Double Barrel and “Fold to Double Barrel” instead of “continuation bet on turn” and “fold to cbet on turn”?

Which do you think is better? Let me know in the comments.

 

 

 

 

Updated HUD & Dashboard Layouts – Latest Revision

Posting screenshots of changes in recent days helped me discover some simple mistakes, such as some pre-flop stats in the post-flop section. I’ve fixed these, and now the layouts of the three screens concerned look as follows:

The HUD:

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The advanced dashboard:

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The “Get Info” window:

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Hopefully the only thing that looks out of place now is my playing style indicated by the statistics…

 

Improvement to HUD Font Chooser

I write Poker Copilot in Java. Java doesn’t have a nice font chooser. There are a couple of free substandard ones available on the web. I’ve been using one supplied with JFreeChart, the open source java charting library that I use in Poker Copilot. It is good enough, and gets the job done, but the source code includes comments that state that it is a “barely good-enough” solution. Here’s what it looks like:

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The “Help” button doesn’t do anything. The list of fonts always initially displays the first options, rather than the currently selection option. There is no preview. It wasn’t using Poker Copilot’s translations.

I’ve long been unhappy with the font chooser in Poker Copilot, but I was also aware that this was a symptom of my perfectionism, and that spending time on a better font chooser was not going to earn me a single additional sale. So I kept putting off. Until today, when I decided to fix this. So I spent a pleasant afternoon starting with the JFreeChart code and tweaking it, tweaking it, tweaking it, using the native OS X font chooser, until I had something I’m happier with:

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It is better and more usable, although I’d still rather be able to use the native font chooser. And yes, this does now allow you to choose 7 point fonts.

Addendum: You really wouldn’t want to use Georgia Bold Italic 16.0 point as your HUD font…

Improvement to HUD Popup

Loyal Poker Copilot customer Dimancho suggested a more logical layout for the HUD popup. As of the next update the stats will be grouped by category:
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This should make it easier when scanning for the right statistic to help make a tense decision.

Video Review of Poker Copilot…

…in German. Best viewed in HD full-screen

Ein deutschsprachiger Videoreview zu dem Pokerhilfsprogramm “Poker Copilot”

Interview with me…

…in Polish. The interview also includes a Polish-language review of Poker Copilot. An excerpt:

Nie chcę, żeby ten tekst był tylko zwykłą recenzją programu. Poker Copilot jest programem ciekawym także z racji osoby, która go napisała. Udało mi się nawiązać kontakt z twórcą tego oprogramowania – Stevem McLeod’em. Krótki wywiad o początkach przygody z pokerem, programowaniu oraz o tym jak pokerowa pasja potrafi przynieść satysfakcję również poza stolikiem.Nie chcę, żeby ten tekst był tylko zwykłą recenzją programu. Poker Copilot jest programem ciekawym także z racji osoby, która go napisała. Udało mi się nawiązać kontakt z twórcą tego oprogramowania – Stevem McLeod’em. Krótki wywiad o początkach przygody z pokerem, programowaniu oraz o tym jak pokerowa pasja potrafi przynieść satysfakcję również poza stolikiem.

 

Coming in the Next Update: Another Statistic

Two days ago I announced “Continuation Bet on Turn” aka “Double-barrel bet”. This indicates when a person made the initial bet on the turn, after having made a continuation bet on the flop. A natural complement to this statistic is “Folded to Continuation Bet on Turn”, and it will be in the next update:

 

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