Today, with the help of this discussion forum topic (mostly in French), I discovered a very specific bug in Poker Copilot. The bug: an error in all-in EV calculations for Winamax hands with antes, where you go all-in pre-flop, and someone calls the all-in bet with going all-in too.
The fix will be in the next update.
Poker Copilot 4 (aka PCP Dallas) is nearing completion. I’ve eliminated most known bugs, and have been working on polishing the user interface.
The major remaining task is what I’m now calling the “Dynamic HUD”. This is the HUD mode for Zoom Poker/Rush Poker, but which will ideally also work with any table.
With regards to Retina displays, I’ve gone backwards from including Oracle’s Java in the application. Now PCP Dallas does the same thing as Poker Copilot 3, and uses Apple’s Java that should already be on most computers. Not ideal, but Oracle’s Java for Mac is simply not ready for desktop applications. The positive outcome of using Apple’s Java is that Retina displays are supported.
I’ve just hit a major roadblock with PCP Dallas (the forthcoming Poker Copilot 4). It looks blurry with Retina displays. One of the tasks on my “get PCP Dallas done” list is to make sure things work well with Retina. As that involved buying a new, expensive MacBook Pro to replace an older model that I still find satisfactory, I left the task aside for awhile. However I decided to follow my view that “good software development requires a well-equipped office”. I spent the money and ordered a new MacBook Pro with Retina display. It arrived today.
The results of running Poker Copilot on a Retina display? Poker Copilot 3 looks great. PCP Dallas? Unacceptable, in my opinion.
After doing some research, it seems this is a known issue in Java 7. Oracle, who make Java, will fix this in due time, but they haven’t publicised a fix date.
Apple has been encouraging us Mac+Java developers to move to Java 7 and to embed it in our software. So I followed their suggestion. I think perhaps they are encouraging us to do so prematurely.
I don’t know the solution to these problems yet.
Summer time starts or ends in various parts of the world this month. This leads to problems with Poker Copilot for Merge Network skins, such as Carbon Poker, as Merge has its own timezone setting. Here’s what you need to check after the summer time changeover:
1) In Carbon Poker (or another Merge Network skin), select from the menu, “Settings” -> “Time Zone Settings…“
2) Make sure the “time zone to be displayed” is set to your timezone, and that the correct time is showing. The time in your Merge Network skin must match the time on your Mac for Poker Copilot to work properly.
3) To be certain the settings have been recognised correctly, you should restart both your Merge Network skin and Poker Copilot.
The improvements and fixes in the coming Poker Copilot 4 continue coming. There’s an EAP update that has the stats the SnG grinders have been clamouring for: Donk-Bet by street, Check-Raise by street, Squeeze bet, and Three-bet by position.
Poker Copilot 4 will be released in the coming months. So I’ll be refreshing some of our related design work. I’m starting with the Poker Copilot icon that you see in the OS X Dock, or in the Applications folder, etc.
If you know your way around Photoshop or GIMP, and you like money, then why don’t you enter the icon design competition at 99designs?
(Hint for my blog readers: I’m using this process as a possible selection tool for someone to do much more design work. Just saying’.)
Every time I release an update of Poker Copilot, I open up a checklist with each thing I must do. Over the last few years, the list has been refined, shortened, automated where possible, made clearer. I was partly motivated by the excellent The Checklist Manifesto
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Once or twice, I’ve not bothered following the checklist, and things have gone wrong. By now I should have learnt. But with the most recent update to Poker Copilot 3.26, I worked through half the list, and did the rest from memory. I forgot to perform this important step:
Step 6: Manually perform full download and install.
I didn’t do that step, and therefore didn’t realise for two days that I had a broken full downloader on the site. Sigh. I’m reminded again, that the purpose of the checklist is to avoid these situations that tend to be rather poor for sales.
If you tried in the last couple of days to download Poker Copilot, and it didn’t work, sorry, sorry, sorry. It’s now fixed. You can download from the home page or directly using this link.
If you play on a PokerStars Zoom Poker table, and the Poker Copilot HUD isn’t appearing, even though you’ve turned on the experimental Zoom Poker HUD, then please check if the table you are playing on is listed here.
If it isn’t listed, please send to me via email (steve@pokercopilot.com) the following information about the table, so I can add it to Poker Copilot:
Poker Copilot 3.26 is now available to download.
What’s changed:
(And if you don’t own it yet, click here to buy Poker Copilot, securely and instantly.)
(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.)
Poker Copilot 4 will have a new “Hands by Date” summary. Similar to the “Tournaments by Date” summary, it combines a chart and table in one screen. It allows you to group hands by day, week, month, and also hour of the day, and day of the week:
