It’s time to create some good, solid documentation for Poker Copilot. Can you help? Do you know someone who can?
Ideally you’d be an existing Poker Copilot user, with fluent English. You understand the principles of good writing. (e.g. Prefer the active tense. Keep sentences short. Avoid unnecessary words.)
I imagine this would suit a university student.
If you are interested, please send me an email telling me why you’d be a good choice, as well as your rates. Note: the email should be proof of your excellent writing ability.
I’ve enjoyed a restful December. Now I’m fully recharged and it’s time to charge ahead with Poker Copilot updates. Here are the high priority tasks for the coming months – in no particular order:
All-in EV chart.
The ability to “flag” or “star” hands while playing for later review.
More stats – because, according to the power users, there can never be enough stats!
Hand Replayer improvements, such as keyboard control, stats and pot odds, the ability to sit back and watch several consecutive hands, and a “Save as QuickTime movie” option.
Colour-coded Head-up Display.
Auto-generated player icons to represent their style. Think donk, shark, rock.
Absolute Poker support.
Better documentation.
Video tutorials.
Integration with well-known “product X” where I can’t reveal what “product X” is yet.
The exclusive, one-of-a-kind Poker Copilot leak detectors.
Will there be a Poker Copilot 3? I haven’t decided yet. The approach of continual free updates is working out well so far.
Summary: Things went exceedingly well. There were some hiccups. I learnt some lessons.
Let’s start with a chart:
Each quarter has been significantly better than the previous except for 2009 quarter 2. I’m pretty sure that anomaly was because I announced I was working on Poker Copilot 2, leading many potential purchasers to wait. What a way to scare off potential buyers!
Monthly expenses have remained almost negligibly low.
Personal stuff
Over the year I went from being a full-time IT consultant to a part-time IT consultant, to giving up consulting altogether.
Poker Copilot earns me a good income for Germany, where I live. I work nice, flexible hours. I’m far more satisfied with my work compared to consulting.
Poker Copilot stuff
I released version 2. I released it too soon out of eagerness and there were quality issues. While trying to solve those initial quality issues, both of the major Mac poker rooms made changes that broke Poker Copilot. Trying to deal with quality issues AND make fixes for the Full Tilt and PokerStars changes lead to a painful and somewhat embarrassing couple of months where I felt like I was doing nought but chasing my tail. Since then I’ve made a forceful push towards better quality, better testing, and better processes.
The software itself has come a long, long, long way from where it was a year ago. Major features added in 2009 include:
a hand replayer
a better HUD
better multi-tabling support
more stats
a database that can cope with a million hands instead of 150,000 hands
the ability to drill down into summaries to see individual hands played
more poker rooms supported
more filters
mucked card display
direct database access for SQL junkies
support for Full Tilt in a range of European languages
I felt like I dropped the ball on customer support a couple of times. My aim for customer support is:
give a meaningful, helpful response to all support requests
within 24 hours
I mostly did this but sometimes I failed on either the first count or the second count.
What’s coming for 2010…
…will be in a separate blog post soon! I’ve got lots of good stuff planned.
In the next update of Poker Copilot, the File menu will have two new options:
I mentioned the “Fetch PokerStars Tournament Results from Email…” item previously.
The second new item is “Add PokerStars Tournament Audit…” PokerStars has recently added the ability to request a playing audit. Amongst other things it contains info about tournament buyins, winnings, rebuys, and addons:
If you request this from PokerStars in CSV format, Poker Copilot can read it to augment the Tournament Summary e-mails.
Augment? Yep. The tournament summary e-mails contain where you placed, but not info about addons and rebuys. The audit contains addons and rebuys but not info on your where placed. The two together give complete info.
