Poker Copilot Still Not Coming to App Store

So the news here is that nothing is happening…

Poker Copilot has been ineligible to be added to the App Store until Apple and Oracle completed Java 7 for Mac OS X. Work was coming along well, I’ve been trying all developer-only releases, and sending feedback and bug reports to Apple/Oracle.

But then, a couple of days ago, Apple announced that as of March 2012, applications available in the App Store will have to be “sandboxed”. This means, they won’t have access to other program’s files and info. Which means that a program like Poker Copilot would not be able to interact with a program like PokerStars. Which means Poker Copilot won’t be making it into the App Store.

I’m a bit disappointed, as this has been a goal I’ve been working towards for months.

 

Poker Copilot 2.96 Now Available

Poker Copilot 2.96 is now available to download.

A big thanks to the Winamax team for working closely with me to get things ready for their changed hand history format.

What’s changed:

  • Upcoming Winamax hand history changes supported.
  • Improved pasting of formatted hands into plain text editor
  • Improved handling “My playing day starts at” for summer time

What’s fixed:

  • Fix for Merge Network stake level problem – no small blind posted meant incorrect stake level info

Update Instructions:

  1. Download the latest version here.
  2. Open the downloaded file.
  3. Drag the Poker Copilot icon to the Applications icon. If prompted to replace an existing version, confirm that you do want to replace.

Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.

Poker in Barcelona?

Last (northern hemisphere) winter I hibernated in Beirut. This year, I’m at the other end of the Mediterranean, in Barcelona.

I’m looking to join a regular home poker night. Small buy-ins, playing for fun. Know of anything? Let me know via email: steve@pokercopilot.com

 

Deleting Ongame Hand Histories on Mac OS X

Someone asked on the Poker Copilot Get Satisfaction site how to delete Ongame hand histories. It is tricky, because Ongame stores hand histories in a hidden file.

So here are step-by-step instructions for finding and removing Ongame hand histories on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion):

  1. In Finder, from the “Go” menu, select “Go to Folder…”
  2. In the window that appears, enter ~/.P5 and press enter. You may want to copy and paste that bolded text
  3. Now in Finder a window will open in which you can go through your Ongame Network hand histories, deleting or moving as you want
  4. Once you’ve deleted the hand histories, if you want the changes reflected in Poker Copilot, you need to reset your database. In Poker Copilot, you do this from the “File” menu, by selecting “Reset Database…”

In earlier versions of OS X, the “Go to Folder…” option from step 1 may be slightly different.

 

Poker Copilot Problems with Summer Time Changeover

People in some places where winter time is changing to summer time seem to be having problems starting Poker Copilot. If this affects you, you’ll need to wait a day, then start Poker Copilot again. I’m looking in to a better long-term fix.

So far, I suspect this is mostly a problem for Brazilian users of Poker Copilot.

 

 

PartyPoker on the Mac

Today I got an email from PartyPoker announcing that they now have a Mac client.

Little-known fact: The first poker room that Poker Copilot supported was PartyPoker. I wrote the first initial proof-of-concept of Poker Copilot to help me analyse some PartyPoker hands I had played in Windows via Parallels. However as PartyPoker didn’t have a Mac client, I discarded PartyPoker support.

PartyPoker has an interesting, up-and-down – and somewhat murky – history.

Business Survival

I read this gem of a sentence today in a WSJ article, The Little ISP that Stood Up to the Government:

Sonic managed to survive the competition from big Internet dial-up competitors such as AOL by offering great customer service and avoiding taking on debt.

Really, this one sentence describes two killer aspects of a solid business plan.

 

Poker Copilot 2.95 Now Available

Poker Copilot 2.95 is now available to download.

What’s fixed:

  • PokerStars allows players who win a hand with an uncalled bet to show just one card. This was breaking Poker Copilot, but now it is handled correctly.
  • Minor tweaks and improvements.

Update Instructions:

  1. Download the latest version here.
  2. Open the downloaded file.
  3. Drag the Poker Copilot icon to the Applications icon. If prompted to replace an existing version, confirm that you do want to replace.

Now you are done and ready to hit the tables.