I’ve added a new video to the Poker Copilot tutorial videos. See how to configure 888poker for Poker Copilot, see what our 888poker HUD looks like, and learn how to understand the HUD.
Watch me play on 888poker, and watch me use Poker Copilot to help me play.
I first explain how to configure 888poker for Poker Copilot:
In 888poker, from the “Settings” menu, select “Game Settings”.
Check the checkbox labelled “Keep my hand history in:”
Set Days to keep hand history: to 9999
And click “Apply”
I need to set my preferred seat…for every table size.
First 10 Max, then 9 seats, 8 seats, 6 seats.
Now 5 seats, and 4 seats. Three seats. Heads up…and done!
Click on “Apply” and then “Save and close”.
Finally you need to restart 888poker.
Now you can start Poker Copilot. If it is already running, restart it. It is important to restart so that Poker Copilot can detect the changes you made to 888poker’s settings.
Then I show the HUD running on 888poker:
After the first hand at a new table is completed, the HUD should appear.
There’s a HUD panel next to each player.
Above the line, you can see the player name, and how many hands we’ve played against them.
The higher this number, the more reliable Poker Copilot’s information is.
Below the line, you can see “VPIP”.
This indicates how often a player takes part in hands.
It’s a percentage, and the full name is “Voluntarily put money in the pot”.
It’s a standard poker term for online play.
The higher this number, the looser a player is.
Good players keep this number pretty low, typically around 20% on a full-ring table.
Next we can see how often a player raises.
“PFR” means pre-flop raise.
Again, this is a percentage.
The higher the number, the more often the player raises pre-flop.
It shows how aggressive a player is.
If this number is very low, the player is passive.
If the number is close to the value of VPIP (which is actually the maximum value it can have), the player is very aggressive.
The third and final number is “Aggression Frequency”.
It’s also a percentage. It measures how aggressive a player is in the hands in which he sees the flop.
Once he gets the flop, does this player fold? call? raise? bet?
Aggression Frequency is higher if a player is more likely to bet and raise than he is to fold and call postflop.
If you don’t like the location of the HUD panels, you can move them.
Click, hold down the mouse, then drag the panel.
Here in the top-right hand corner we have the HUD control panel.
I’m not going to explain everything about the control panel in this video.
What you do need to know is that this config icon gives you a menu of options you can use to fine-tune the appearance of the HUD.
A week or two ago Party Poker introduced their variant of the “Jackpot Poker”. It’s a four-handed hyper-turbo Sit & Go game tournament. The prize pool is determined at the start of the tournament with a simulated “spin”. Typically the prize pool is double your buy-in, but can be as much as 10,000 times the buy-in. One player is randomly selected at the beginning of the tournament to have a bounty on their head, too.
Jackpok Poker was pioneered by Winamax as “Expresso”, copied by PokerStars as “Spin & Go” and America’s Cardroom as simply “Jackpot Poker”. Until now the format was always three-max and winner-takes-all.
Poker Copilot now fully supports “Sit & Go Hero”. We’ll be releasing an update this week which includes this improvement.
Poker Copilot offers a HUD and hand tracker for PokerStars New Jersey. It is fast, reliable, powerful, easy to use, and translated into French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.
PokerStars is (partly) back in the USA, after a five year break. As of March 21, 2016, PokerStars is available to residents of New Jersey.
Poker Copilot is ready. Today’s Poker Copilot update adds support for PokerStars NJ. This works on both Mac and Windows
The Poker Copilot team is in Barcelona, Spain and not in New Jersey, USA. This restricts our ability to test today’s update properly. So if you are in New Jersey, we’d love to hear your feedback. Let us know at support@pokercopilot.com if you encounter any problems.
Stealing the blinds is an extremely profitable technique for online poker. If you haven’t mastered blind stealing, you are leaving plenty of easy money on the table.
I explain blind stealing in our blind stealing guide, and offer you some strategies I’ve developed by investigating an database of 2 million poker hands from a range of player types.
I’ve done some calculations over a very large database of hands, and discovered that:
In tournaments, 53% of the time, the big blind folds to a steal attempt. In ring games, 62% of the time, the big blind folds to a steal attempt. Think that through: more than half the time, a blind steal attempt will give you the blinds without any further play. This suggests that you should make blind steal attempts with a large range of hands.
But it gets even better, as I explain in the section below on playing the flop. Keep reading.
America’s Cardroom (ACR) on Mac released an update yesterday, March 9th, 2016. Unfortunately the ACR update introduced some problems with their hand history files. Where the hand date, hand id, and table info should be, there are just some placeholders:
Game started at: [0]
Game ID: [1] [2] [3] ([4])
instead of
Game started at: 2015/7/1 9:21:48
Game ID: 438718977 10/20 $10 Jackpot Poker, Table 1 (Hold'em)
This makes it impossible for Poker Copilot to track the tables. We’ve reported this to ACR. In our experience the ACR team are very responsive, so we expect a fix will be available soon.
Do you have a twitch.tv profile with at least 100 followers? Do you livestream your poker sessions? Let us know via email and we’ll send you a free Poker Copilot license. This offer is for Mac and Windows streamers.
Email us your full name with a link to Twitch profile page. and we’ll send you a license, FREE of charge. In return, all we ask is that you do use Poker Copilot on your streams.
Some poker rooms, such as America’s Cardroom, don’t make tournament results available to Poker Copilot. Many of our customers manually enter tournament results, by right-clicking on a recent tournament and selecting “Get Info”.
However if you need to reset your Poker Copilot database, these manual changes are lost. This has been a pain point for a while. As of the next Poker Copilot update, this pain will be gone.
From Poker Copilot’s menu, select Tools -> Restore Manual Tournament Changes. You’ll be prompted to continue. Select OK and in a split second all your manual changes will be reapplied.
To run Poker Copilot in any of these languages, you don’t need to do anything special. If your computer is already running in Italian, Poker Copilot will automatically detect this, and run in Italian.
You can override the language. If you prefer to use your computer in Italian, but play poker in English, Poker Copilot’s Preferences offers a language override.
Carbon Poker just released an update. This update no longer saves hand history files. It seems Carbon has intentionally disabled hand histories. From Carbon support:
We made some updates to the Hand History function and is no longer stored in your computer. You can review the hands played in the current session from the Hand History section in the poker software.
Without hand history files, Poker Copilot can’t work with Carbon Poker. This means no HUD.
If Carbon change their mind and they release an update that reactivates the saving of hand history files, we’ll be able to support it again.
Looking for an alternative poker room that allows US players? We recommend America’s Cardroom. It runs on both Mac and Windows, and Poker Copilot fully supports it.
(This also affects other Merge Network rooms, including Sportsbook Poker, Odds Poker, and Players Only.)
