Short version: Poker Copilot fully on macOS Sierra.
Long version:
Apple recently made a preview version of the next OS X update available for developers. They’ve renamed OS X as macOS. The new version will be macOS Sierra (version 10.12). It will be available for the public later this year.
Today I downloaded and installed a developer preview of macOS Sierra. It looks and feels exactly like the current version of OS X, with the exception of Siri. Siri, the voice assistant from iPhones and iPads, is now part of macOS. It doesn’t seem to work very well. I speak, Siri mishears and does something I didn’t want done. She refuses to undo the thing she actually did. I then need to use the keyboard and mouse to get rid of what Siri did and do what I asked Siri to do. Siri seems like a marketing gimmick, rather than a useful operating system feature.
Anyway, back to Poker Copilot. It worked without a single problem. As a developer of a software product, I’m grateful that an operating system update is so uneventful. As a geek, I wish the new OS X update did new, amazing things.
So, if you need or want to update to macOS Sierra, you can be sure that Poker Copilot still runs.
This is an interesting change by PokerStars: if a player is in an all-in showdown, their cards are displayed on the screen:
Previously only tournaments would immediately show hole cards before running out the board and cash game players would be able to hide their cards, with only the winning hand forced to show.
This has now changed and hole cards in cash games will be displayed in every All-in scenario.
Poker Copilot gives you this functionality once the hand is over, by displaying all known hole cards for a few seconds immediately after a hand is over. This feature will be less useful now for PokerStars players. You can turn this off in Poker Copilot’s Preferences -> Head-up Display -> General -> Show mucked cards:
There is a good reason for leaving “show mucked cards” feature on in Poker Copilot; it also shows your all-in equity value if you were involved in the hand. It is a great way to tell immediately whether you made a terrible decision and need to mark the hand for review.
Poker Copilot is hiring! We’re looking for a part-time and/or freelance software tester who thoroughly understands online poker.
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EverestPoker was on the iPoker network. They recently decided to close down, and concentrate on their other iPoker skin, BetClic Poker. So today’s Poker Copilot update adds support for:
BetClic Poker
BetClic Poker.IT (for poker players in Italy)
BetClic Poker.FR (for poker players in France)
iPoker has two different versions of the software. Here at Poker Copilot, we’ve given the two versions rather obvious names: “iPoker Old Software” and “iPoker New Software”. Currently we support both versions, but we do need to make small changes each time a given skin switch from the old software to the new software. If your favourite iPoker skin is not working in Poker Copilot, do let us know at support@pokercopilot.com and we’ll soon rectify the situation.
Last year we started a policy of updating Poker Copilot every two weeks, as much as possible. Why? Because almost every day another obscure bug is reported to us, support for a new poker room is requested, or a poker room adds something new. We don’t want to make all our users have to update for each tiny bug we fix. But we do want to make sure Poker Copilot is working smoothly for most people most of the time. We’ve copied some major software companies and settled on a two-week cycle as a good balance between update frequency and bug count.
Today we have a Poker Copilot update which illustrates exactly the type of problems we encounter frequently:
On bwin/PartyPoker, if you computer was running in Swiss German, and you were playing a tournament, and if the big blind was 1,000 chips or higher, then bwin/PartyPoker would write the blinds (and just the blinds!) in Swiss currency format. That is, 1’000 instead of 1,000 (UK/USA), 1 000 (France), or 1.000 (Spain), which are bugs we had found in the past.
PokerStars’ latest update on Mac in Euro-currency hands is using the wrong symbol for the euro sign. Specifically, they are using the de-facto ASCII symbol (character 128, although it depends really), although the hand history files are not ASCII, but are UTF-8. This caused Poker Copilot to think that zoom money cash hands played in euros are play money hands.
Titan Poker seems to have reintroduced their old software for some customers. We don’t know why, but we’ve had to make Poker Copilot support both the old software and the new software.
Poker Copilot failed to read 888poker.nj tournament summary files. This one was clearly a bug in Poker Copilot.
When you next start Poker Copilot you’ll be prompted to update.
Loyal Poker Copilot user Gene made an interesting request:
Is it possible to compare my statistics for hands in which I’ve called preflop against hands in which I’ve raised preflop?
Currently it is quite cumbersome to do this in Poker Copilot. It requires you to make screenshots or jot down some notes.
I’d like to take the idea further: Poker Copilot should let you compare any two arbitrary filter settings. Compare April this year to April last year; compare 6-max to 9-max. Compare pocket pairs played in position with 3-bets versus pocket pairs played out of position with preflop raise.
It seems to me that the current “Basic Statistics” or “Advanced Statistics” screen is the logical place to do this. These screens already do compare two sets of numbers: “Today” versus whatever date range you’ve set. So, fundamentally, Poker Copilot already has the capability to compare and contrast any two sets of hands. However the user interface restricts this to just one dimension:
Currently Poker Copilot has a single filter bar, visible in most screens. The “Statistics” screens could have an optional second filter, allowing this comparison to be any arbitrary settings. The idea needs some fleshing out, but I think this is quite doable in a future Poker Copilot version.
The challenge, as with all Poker Copilot screen designs, is to make it simple, flexible, and powerful.
Today’s update of Poker Copilot supports the new incarnation of Full Tilt as a PokerStars skin.
The first poker room that Poker Copilot supported was Full Tilt Poker. For a long time, they had the best online poker experience. Now, however, they are gone. Last week Full Tilt closed down their network. They now operate as a PokerStars skin.
