Why No Absolute Poker Tournament Support in Poker Copilot?

Tournament hand histories produced by Absolute Poker for Mac OS X are missing a line that tells us what the flop was. This makes it hard to determine automatically where the preflop betting stops and the flop betting starts. It also means that in hands where everybody folds to someone who bets on the flop, there is no indication at all of what the flop was.

UltimateBet for Mac OS X also has this problem with tournament hand histories, which makes me suspect the problem lies in the Cereus Network’s Mac software. I reported this problem to UltimateBet a couple of months ago.

In ring game hands, the *** FLOP *** line is always present. In Tournament hands, it seems to be always missing.

Here’s an example hand history from a Absolute Poker tournament I played in (and donked out of) today:

Stage #8459747 Tourney ID 4988340 Holdem Single Tournament No Limit 10 - 2010-01-25 04:55:59 (ET)
Table: 34093525 (Real Money) Seat #7 is the dealer
Seat 1 - DIRTYD15 (1,500 in chips)
Seat 2 - STEVOSKI222 (1,500 in chips)
Seat 3 - SEANCFITTS (1,500 in chips)
Seat 4 - MITSKEVICH (1,500 in chips)
Seat 5 - PAMBOYC (1,500 in chips)
Seat 6 - CUSE_1 (1,500 in chips)
Seat 7 - STERIO 48 (1,500 in chips)
Seat 8 - HUMBOLDTLIVE (1,500 in chips)
Seat 9 - ELITETEKBRAD (1,500 in chips)
HUMBOLDTLIVE - Posts small blind 5
ELITETEKBRAD - Posts big blind 10
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to STEVOSKI222 [9d 5c] 
DIRTYD15 - Folds
STEVOSKI222 - Folds
SEANCFITTS - Raises 20 to 20
MITSKEVICH - Folds
PAMBOYC - Folds
CUSE_1 - Raises 75 to 75
STERIO 48 - Folds
HUMBOLDTLIVE - Folds
ELITETEKBRAD - Calls 65
SEANCFITTS - Calls 55
ELITETEKBRAD - Checks
SEANCFITTS - Checks
CUSE_1 - Checks
*** TURN *** [Qh 7c 8h] [Ad]
ELITETEKBRAD - Checks
SEANCFITTS - Checks
CUSE_1 - Bets 145
ELITETEKBRAD - Calls 145
SEANCFITTS - Calls 145
*** RIVER *** [Qh 7c 8h Ad] [9h]
ELITETEKBRAD - Checks
SEANCFITTS - Checks
CUSE_1 - Bets 332
ELITETEKBRAD - Folds
SEANCFITTS - Calls 332
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CUSE_1 - Shows [Qd Qc] (Three of a kind, queens) 
SEANCFITTS - Mucks
CUSE_1 Collects 1,329 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(1,329)
Board [Qh 7c 8h Ad 9h]
Seat 1: DIRTYD15Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 2: STEVOSKI222Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: SEANCFITTSHI: [Mucked] [Ks Qs] 
Seat 4: MITSKEVICHFolded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 5: PAMBOYCFolded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: CUSE_1won Total (1,329) HI:(1,329) with Three of a kind, queens [Qd Qc - B:Qh,P:Qd,P:Qc,B:Ad,B:9h] 
Seat 7: STERIO 48(dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 8: HUMBOLDTLIVE(small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 9: ELITETEKBRAD(big blind) Folded on the RIVER

Between these two lines:

SEANCFITTS - Calls 55
ELITETEKBRAD - Checks

should be the flop, as follows:

SEANCFITTS - Calls 55
*** FLOP *** [Qh 7c 8h]
ELITETEKBRAD - Checks

If you would like to see tournament support in Poker Copilot for Absolute Poker and UltimateBet please report this issue to either or both poker rooms.