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.
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.
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