Great article. I recommend thoroughly. This paragraph reminds me why a product like Poker Copilot is feasible:
The salient observation is how quickly and cheaply a hunch turned into a profitable enterprise. A generation ago, it would have taken an enormous corporate infrastructure to research, develop, manufacture and distribute nearly anything. Given such costs and headaches, companies were reluctant to finance all but the most certain-to-succeed innovations. Today the Internet allows someone at their kitchen table to communicate easily with a factory in Guangzhou; containerized shipping makes it trivially cheap to import manufactured goods; and the ever-growing media landscape offers vast opportunities for easy marketing.
I sporadically use Google’s Webmaster Tools with Poker Copilot’s website, and some of my other web properties such as Mac Poker Software. Google’s Webmaster tools shows how high my sites rank in Google searches for various keywords, and the “click-through rate” for those keywords. The power of ranking high in Google for a search term is self-evident, but I still get a surprise when I see just how powerful it is.
Here’s an example: For search queries where the Mac Poker Software site averages first position in the Google search results, the click-through rate is typically 60%. For position #2 in the Google search results, it is roughly 40%. For position #3, it is 20%. For lower positions the click-through rate is negligible. In other words, if we don’t rank in the top 3 positions, we might as well not even appear at all.
Your own site may have different results, but the pattern is most likely similar.
Poker Copilot 4 has a new set of player icons. We’ve taken care to make sure they can be easily distinguished at small size, even if you eyesight isn’t great, or if you have colour blindness. There are also high-definition versions for people with Retina displays, although that might not be working yet.
Poker Copilot is five years old in a month’s time. And yet I only discovered in the last week or so that if you minimise a poker table window, the HUD keeps showing as if the table wasn’t minimised. Thanks to loyal Poker Copilot customer Lee for reporting this.
(Poker Copilot 4 is under development. Buy version 3 now, beat the price rise, and receive a free upgrade to version 4 when it is released.)
Thanks to loyal Poker Copilot user Maarten, Poker Copilot 4 is now completely translated into Dutch.
Currently the Dutch, French, and Russian translations are complete. If you’d like to volunteer finish the translation into your language you can help here.
If you’ve been trying out the early access builds of Poker Copilot 4, I recommend you download the latest build and try out the new-look hand replayer.
At the moment some of the positions of the cards, player panels, and bet info are askew. But 9-max tables should have everything in the correct place.
For only the second time in Poker Copilot’s five-year history, I’ve had to turn on an email auto-responder for all customer support requests. I’ve contracted some strange tropical illness, so I’m not able to respond to customer emails in the normal maximum 24-hour turn-around time.
Please be patient if it takes me some days to respond to your emails.
Full Tilt Poker released an update today. It made some subtle but critical changes to the hand history format. I’ve fixed PCP Dallas to handle this. You can update here if you are trying out PCP Dallas.
I hope to have the fix in Poker Copilot 3 within the next hour. You’ll know when it is done by restarting Poker Copilot 3 and receiving the “There’s an update” message.
