You can move around Poker Copilot’s HUD panels without the full popup getting in the way. Hold down the “cmd” key when you click on a player’s HUD panel and the stat sheet won’t appear. This is an obscure and undocumented feature that has been present for almost as long as the HUD.
It seems Winamax has just released version 2 of their Mac software. Congratulations Winamax team.
The new version seems to fix an issue with dates and times in their hand history files. Poker Copilot expects this to be wrong, depending on your timezone, so has been autocorrecting it. Unfortunately as of the new Winamax update, Poker Copilot is auto-miscorrecting it.
Here is an unreleased update which you can download if this problem is affecting you.
Please do write in the comments whether this update fixes the issue for you.
Poker Copilot 3.08 is now available to download.
Unfortunately the auto-updater embedded in 3.07 is not working correctly, so you’ll need to do this update manually.
What’s changed:
Update Instructions:
Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.
Coming soon: For the rest of this week I’ll be adding some new statistics.
So I noticed today I’ve written 1,005 blog posts. 1,006 counting this one…I never knew I had it in me…almost four years worth of stuff.
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I spent some time today getting Poker Copilot’s Experiment Zoom Poker HUD working with slightly smaller windows than before. You can now have the Zoom Poker window at a minimum size of 1219×863 pixels. More info here.
Poker Copilot 3.07 is now available to download.
What’s changed:
This update does NOT need to update your Poker Copilot database.
Update Instructions:
Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.
There’s a nice forum thread on cardschat where a player uses Poker Copilot to get advice and improve his game. It almost reads like a case study in how to use Poker Copilot to improve at micro limits. I recommend reading it, especially if you are new-ish to Poker Copilot.
Although you’ll need to filter out this outlandish claim:
micro limits are almost impossible to win at, the variance created by loose players is a killer.
That’s really bad advice.
This is much better advice:
You need more A in your TAG. 14/8 is too passive. 14/12 is more like it. Also 3bet more.
“14/8” means 14% VPIP, 8% pre-flop raise.
Currently Poker Copilot lets you filter by any statistic, but only if that statistic is true. For example, you can filter for all hands in which you had a 4-bet opportunity. But you can’t filter for hands in which you DIDN’T have a 4-bet opportunity.
The next update changes this. The Advanced filter lets you select “is true”, and “is false”:
The filter bar indicates “is true” and “is false” with a plus or minus sign in front for the relevant statistic:
I added this out of my own frustration. Sometimes I’m trying to pinpoint a problem and I determine that the problem DOESN’T lie in a particular “statistic is true” setting. To inverse the filter I’ve had to go manually to the database. Not any more.
Yesterday evening I spent some time brainstorming a more graphic layout for Poker Copilot’s dashboard. Here’s a draft of how I can, for example, show VPIP.
It is aimed at first-time users of Poker Copilot who want to get an understanding not just of their statistics, but what the statistics mean in terms of playing style.
At the moment this is just an idea that’s on the list of potential improvements.
In Merge Network tournaments, sometimes the amount of the big blind is not specified. This happens if a player goes all-in in the process of paying the blind. As of the next update, Poker Copilot uses some smarts to guess the big blind in these situations.
Here’s an excerpt of a merge network hand with this issue:
In these situations Poker Copilot now tries to determine the big blind by doubling the small blind. If the small blind is missing as well, then Poker Copilot looks at the previous hand parsed from the same hand history file and uses the blind info from that hand. This can occasionally still be wrong, as the blinds might have increased since the previous hand. Or this might be the first hand in a hand history file.
Poker Copilot has dozens of such heuristics, coping with different oddities in different poker rooms.