Poker Copilot’s HUD and hand tracker now works fully with all-in cash out hands.
PokerStars recently introduced “all-in cash out” on some tables. Here’s how it works:
When an all-in situation occurs in a cash game and players’ hands are revealed (before the river and with no more action pending), we calculate each hand’s probability to win the pot and assign a cash out value to each hand, based on those probabilities.
Players in the all-in pot will be presented with the option to cash out their hand and receive the cash out amount, risk-free. If they decline, they will continue to contest the entire pot (and any side pots in which they are involved) as usual.
Once a player chooses to cash out they will no longer be eligible to contest any portion of the pot, and will receive the offered amount added to their stack immediately.
Players declining the cash out option will still need the best hand at showdown to win the pot, even if all their opponents have cashed out.
So that’s how all-in cash out works. But should you use it?
In my opinion, no. That’s because by definition it is a “minus EV” feature.
PokerStars writes:
The cash out value offered is calculated per the formula below:
Hand value = (pot size – rake) x probability of winning
We apply a 1% cash out fee on value of your hand (not the entire pot), deducted prior to offering the cash out amount.
So all-in cash out gives you precisely 1% below your equity value (EV).
Good poker players know they need to take every chance to maximise EV. A feature offered by PokerStars that eats away at EV is, in my opinion, something you should avoid.
Update: Poker Copilot now works on macOS Catalina!
Poker Copilot works with macOS Catalina, the forthcoming next version of Apple’s Mac operating system.
Running Poker Copilot on Catalina
Catalina is fussier than earlier versions of macOS. It wants you to explicitly grant permission to apps to do some things they could do by default in earlier versions of macOS.
The first time you run Poker Copilot with Catalina you’ll be prompted to give Poker Copilot permission to:
access your Downloads folder. This is necessary for Poker Copilot’s auto-detection of hand history folders. It scans the Downloads folder, because some poker rooms store your hand histories there by default.
record your screen. This sounds more ominous than it is. Giving Poker Copilot permission to record your screen is necessary for our HUD to be able to track poker room windows. Without this permission, Poker Copilot can’t tell if your poker room has any windows open.
If you don’t grant these permissions, Poker Copilot can’t function properly.
You can change these settings in macOS’s System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy.
Still having problems?
If you encounter any problems using Poker Copilot with Catalina, please let us know at support@pokercopilot.com.
Finally, restart both apps and play a few hands to confirm the HUD updates correctly. Don’t hesitate to contact us again if the problem persists.
It would be helpful if you could let us know the new ACR hand history folder path so that we can work on a way to automatically detect and add that folder to Poker Copilot. You can contact us at support@pokercopilot.com.
There is a new Poker Copilot update available today that works with Americas Cardroom (ACR)’s new software.
To get the new version, start Poker Copilot and when prompted to update, do so.
You can also download the latest Poker Copilot update directly from our home page.
Keep reading for the details…
A week ago, Americas Cardroom (ACR) released a major new version of their software.
The new software, so called ACR version 2, is really good. It is a big improvement, especially on Mac, where ACR version 1 never stopped being a beta version.
But there were problems for ACR. The initial release didn’t go smoothly for ACR.
Now, a week later, things seem to be more stable, and so we’ve been able to add support for the new ACR software.
We wanted to get our HUD working for ACR players as soon as possible. So it is possible that there are some issues with our HUD on ACR that we haven’t yet discovered and fixed.
If you are playing on BlackChip Poker or other WPN skins, and our HUD is not detecting your room correctly, let us know. We want to support all WPN skins.
Today America’s Cardroom (ACR) released a major new update.
The new ACR update has made some changes that are stopping Poker Copilot from reading hands and showing the HUD.
We are currently working on an update for Poker Copilot to support these ACR changes. We’ll release the update as soon as we can.
The new ACR, by the way, seems really good. The Mac version is many times better than the older version, and now seems to be on par with the Windows version of ACR.
Some of our customers are experiencing a problem after today’s Winamax update. Hands are not getting read, and the HUD doesn’t show.
We investigated and found that some essential information is missing from the Winamax hand history files. The missing info is the hero’s hole cards. This prevents us from being able to read the hands, and hence the Poker Copilot HUD won’t show.
We’ve reported this to Winamax, and hope they’ll have a fix available soon.