The next Poker Copilot update will be available in Spanish (the variety from Spain, as well as the Latin American variety):
This update should be available later today or tomorrow.
Now both the Poker Copilot website and Poker Copilot itself are in Spanish.
Loyal Poker Copilot user Sébastien asks a good question:
Why don’t you say Double Barrel and “Fold to Double Barrel” instead of “continuation bet on turn” and “fold to cbet on turn”?
Which do you think is better? Let me know in the comments.
Posting screenshots of changes in recent days helped me discover some simple mistakes, such as some pre-flop stats in the post-flop section. I’ve fixed these, and now the layouts of the three screens concerned look as follows:
The HUD:
The advanced dashboard:
The “Get Info” window:
Hopefully the only thing that looks out of place now is my playing style indicated by the statistics…
I write Poker Copilot in Java. Java doesn’t have a nice font chooser. There are a couple of free substandard ones available on the web. I’ve been using one supplied with JFreeChart, the open source java charting library that I use in Poker Copilot. It is good enough, and gets the job done, but the source code includes comments that state that it is a “barely good-enough” solution. Here’s what it looks like:
The “Help” button doesn’t do anything. The list of fonts always initially displays the first options, rather than the currently selection option. There is no preview. It wasn’t using Poker Copilot’s translations.
I’ve long been unhappy with the font chooser in Poker Copilot, but I was also aware that this was a symptom of my perfectionism, and that spending time on a better font chooser was not going to earn me a single additional sale. So I kept putting off. Until today, when I decided to fix this. So I spent a pleasant afternoon starting with the JFreeChart code and tweaking it, tweaking it, tweaking it, using the native OS X font chooser, until I had something I’m happier with:
It is better and more usable, although I’d still rather be able to use the native font chooser. And yes, this does now allow you to choose 7 point fonts.
Addendum: You really wouldn’t want to use Georgia Bold Italic 16.0 point as your HUD font…
Loyal Poker Copilot customer Dimancho suggested a more logical layout for the HUD popup. As of the next update the stats will be grouped by category:
This should make it easier when scanning for the right statistic to help make a tense decision.
…in German. Best viewed in HD full-screen
Ein deutschsprachiger Videoreview zu dem Pokerhilfsprogramm “Poker Copilot”
…in Polish. The interview also includes a Polish-language review of Poker Copilot. An excerpt:
Nie chcę, żeby ten tekst był tylko zwykłą recenzją programu. Poker Copilot jest programem ciekawym także z racji osoby, która go napisała. Udało mi się nawiązać kontakt z twórcą tego oprogramowania – Stevem McLeod’em. Krótki wywiad o początkach przygody z pokerem, programowaniu oraz o tym jak pokerowa pasja potrafi przynieść satysfakcję również poza stolikiem.Nie chcę, żeby ten tekst był tylko zwykłą recenzją programu. Poker Copilot jest programem ciekawym także z racji osoby, która go napisała. Udało mi się nawiązać kontakt z twórcą tego oprogramowania – Stevem McLeod’em. Krótki wywiad o początkach przygody z pokerem, programowaniu oraz o tym jak pokerowa pasja potrafi przynieść satysfakcję również poza stolikiem.
Two days ago I announced “Continuation Bet on Turn” aka “Double-barrel bet”. This indicates when a person made the initial bet on the turn, after having made a continuation bet on the flop. A natural complement to this statistic is “Folded to Continuation Bet on Turn”, and it will be in the next update:
The next Poker Copilot update will make a new statistic available:
What other statistics would you most like to see added to the next update?
Head-Up Displays are the biggest innovation. Using them properly can take your game to an entirely different level almost immediately.
That’s from Phil Gordon’s Little Gold Book, which I bought today in a Kindle version.
So far I’ve been enjoying it and learning from it. Gordon gives an excellent description of the usefulness of a HUD:
The most useful tool developed for online poker is the HUD. HUDs look through each hand that you’ve played and extract vital information about each of your opponents. The HUD then displays that information in real time, directly on top of the window while you’re in action. In one quick glance, you can tell how often players are opening the pot, how often they three-bet, and other important stats.”
