In recent days, some Poker Copilot customers have suddenly found that PokerStars is no longer recognised by Poker Copilot. The problem is that PokerStars has updated, and strangely, renamed itself as “PokerStars 2” or “PokerStars 3”.
This is also affecting country-specific versions such as PokerStarsDE, PokerStarsIT, PokerStarsFR, and PokerStarsBE. It has suddenly renamed itself to, for example, PokerStarsDE 2, or PokerStarsFR 2.
The solution is simple: go to your Applications folder and rename the application to its original name. So, rename “PokerStars 2” to “PokerStars”. Make sure to delete both the space character and the number 2.
Then restart Poker Copilot, and you’ll find that it now detects PokerStars again.
The next Poker Copilot update will attempt to recognise “PokerStars 2” or “PokerStars 3” as PokerStars.
Poker Copilot works fully with El Capitan. Upgrade freely. We’ve been testing on El Capitan since June. Last night I upgraded my MacBook Pro to El Capitan, and had no problems, save that I was unable to watch NetFlix while the upgrade was happening.
…don’t upgrade until you know your apps are compatible, and even when you do upgrade, make sure you have good Time Machine backups. Waiting for version 10.11.1 to shake out the most obvious bugs is also a good strategy, since that update rarely takes more than a month or so to come out.
If you do experience any problems on Poker Copilot that you think are due to upgrading to El Capitan, please do tell us at support@pokercopilot.com.
Until now, to record a Poker Copilot hand as a video you’ve needed to open the hand in the replayer and click “Record”.
The next update introduces a quicker way to record a hand as a video without having to first open the replayer. Right-click (or ctrl-click) on a hand in the “Recent Hands” table, and you’ll see a new item, “Record hand to video”.
The new menu item has the identical function. It will prompt you for a name and location for the video, and then will generate the video for you. Once the recording is complete, you’ll have the option to open the video directly in QuickTime (or whatever other video player you computer uses to open .mov files), or to show the video in Finder.
We’re making the change in preparation for a new option for recording videos. We’re aiming to make it possible to record an entire tournament as one video. Or any group of hands. We’re not there yet, but this change makes it easier for us to add a group of hands as a video.
I could give you the usual blah, blah reasons to not download a cracked version of Poker Copilot: we’re a small company who work hard on this software, and we need you to buy our software so that we can pay rent, eat food, and save for retirement.
But here is a really good reason that benefits you: some cracked versions of popular poker tools have malware installed. This malware captures screenshots of your hole cards and player nickname on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The screenshots are sent to a server on the Internet, where we can assume someone is finding you at the tables, and taking you to the cleaners.
Currently this malware only seems to be on Windows. But this is a discovered malware. Whether there is such malware in cracked OS X products, we can’t tell. But it is definitely a risk.
When you download and install Poker Copilot directly from our website, you received a secure product that has been code-signed using Apple’s servers. This is a process that assures the software is definitely from us. We need to pay Apple yearly for this privilege.
So don’t put yourself at risk of being cheated at online poker by downloading a cracked version of our software. Download the real thing directly from us at http://pokercopilot.com/.
PokerStars has changed the rules about what they will allow in poker tracking software and poker HUDS that their customers use. This will affect Poker Copilot. Here’s what we need to change in the next update of Poker Copilot, in order to meet the new PokerStars rules:
The HUD can’t show player icons on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. PokerStars states that our software “can’t rate, label, categorise, or stereotype based on tendencies.”
Our HUD colour schemes must be restricted to only two thresholds. From the examples PokerStars has given us, I interpret this to mean three colours. eg VPIP is green below 20%, yellow between 20% and 40%, red above 40%. The two thresholds are 20% and 40%.
We need to make these changes because it would be a business disaster for us if PokerStars banned Poker Copilot. All poker software companies have been given until late September to make the necessary changes.
I’ve spent the last two days working out why recent Poker Copilot updates don’t fully work on OS X 10.7. An internal component (JavaFX) used by the Session Overview is not fully supported by OS X 10.7. So the Session Overview won’t show in OS X 10.7.
As soon as you update to OS X 10.8 or higher, the Session Overview will appear again.
I’m astonished at how potential performance improvements can hide in software year after year. Today I discovered a small tweak to make Poker Copilot zoom through loading hands into your database. The improvement results in a sustained 50% increase in speed. Before the change, Poker Copilot would load about 200 hands/second. Now it is toils away at more than 300 hands/second.
In recent weeks I’ve been using an excellent developer tool called Java VisualVM to find the parts of Poker Copilot that hog the computer’s CPU, and use the most memory. Today I discovered that H2, the embedded open source database engine that Poker Copilot uses, was spending too much time analysing each SQL statement before performing it. A default performance setting was by default set too low. I set it to a much higher value, and it is like I discovered I’ve been driving up to now with the handbrake on.
(For the technically minded, and also for any H2 google searches: I increase QUERY_CACHE_SIZE to 100, instead of the default value of 8.)
The next update of Poker Copilot is due to be released this week, and will have this performance improvement, as well as some others I’ve been working on.
