Some Poker Copilot users have recently reported that Poker Copilot is not picking up all tournaments on Absolute Poker and UB (the two members of the Cereus Network).
This is because these poker rooms reuse tournament IDs. Poker Copilot uses the tournament ID reported in each tournament hand history to detect which tournament it belongs to. When tournament IDs are repeated, it is hard to reliably keep doing this.
With the help of loyal Poker Copilot customer Erick I discovered that, for example, Tournament ID 5827242 has been used at least 9 times since November, including twice on the same day.
I’m trying to think of a good work-around for this problem. Ideally though, the Cereus Network team would stop reusing tournament IDs.
Some Poker Copilot customers have reported that Poker Copilot doesn’t work with Spaces. More precisely, if your online poker playing setup involves using multiple spaces, the HUD won’t handle the changing between Spaces.
This is a really hard technical problem to solve. Mac OS X doesn’t give apps like Poker Copilot a chance to detect that you have changed from one Space to another. So when Poker Copilot is midway through updating the HUD panels, you might change to a different Space, and you end up with half the HUD panels on one Space and half of them on another Space.
I don’t understand a word of this. With the help of Google Translate…I still don’t understand a word! I guess machine translation of Japanese English doesn’t work so well. Anyhow, here it is, and here’s an excerpt:
I walked past a travel agency with a friend a few months ago. A sign in the travel agency’s window proclaimed themselves as “the African specialists” (or however you say that in Spanish – we were in Madrid). My friend commented that by picking a niche, they risked making potential customers think they were not willing or able to help for travel to locations other than Africa.That is, most of the world. Therefore they were scaring off potential business. My argument was that by specialising, they were lifting themselves above the fray of also-ran general travel agencies.
I run a company that serves a niche. Actually, a niche of a niche. Of a niche. Poker-playing Mac owners who are serious enough about it to want poker tracking software. So the conversation about the Madrid African travel specialists has often replayed in my mind. Is it best, I ask myself, to concentrate on the narrow niche that I serve, or to widen my potential user base?
When I explain what my business is to computer geeks, they almost always ask, “what about making a Windows version?” A little work, they argue, to gain a much bigger potential customer base. Perhaps they are right. But then I’ll lose my market position of being THE Mac OS X poker tracking application that was designed for Macs, and works as Mac users expect software to work. Instead my product would become just a poker tracking application that happens to run on Mac OS X and Windows. I’d be giving up my niche.
Some companies market themselves as the people who can serve many needs. Macy’s. Harrods. Big department stores, that promise to have just about anything you want to buy. Online, there is Amazon, which if my memory serves correctly once claimed to be the world’s biggest bookstore. Until they decided that books were not enough and that they needed to sell more, more, and even more stuff.
Conversely, many companies market themselves as being specialists for a particular niche, so that you can trust their opinions. The narrower the niche, the better they can specialise. The Internet makes it possible for these niches to be narrower than ever. If I had to run a retail shop selling Mac OS X poker tracking and analysis software, I’d never have enough customers to make the venture viable. Online, however, I can sell to people anywhere in the world. Indeed, I have, with customers in Madagascar, Christmas Island, Macao, Estonia, and Barbados. And the United States, Germany, Brazil, Greece, and Norway. “And, and, and”, as my Russian friend used to say, which here means about 80 other countries.
Both approaches can work – the “we have everything” approach, and the “we are your New Zealand fly-fishing specialists” approach. The “we have everything” approach is typically riskier but can make more money. The “we are the specialists in your narrow niche” approach will never lead to the wealth of Croesus but can offer a healthy income with low-risk and enviable independence.
As for me: I’ll stick to the niche of a niche of a niche.
PokerStars is the biggest place to play poker online. It is the poker online king. It often has more than 150,000 players online at once, so you are able to play any moment, any limit, any game. PokerStars offers all poker varieties, from the popular Texas Hold’em to Omaha and other games like Badugi.
Why in this beautiful software is there not a function for odds and pot odds?
Fabrizio knows how to ask a question in a flattering way!
This question has been coming up frequently in recent support emails. Here’s why Poker Copilot doesn’t calculate pot odds for you automatically while you play:
The online poker rooms like Full Tilt ban software that does this live while you play. You can read Full Tilt’s policy here.
This sentence is specifically relevant:
For example, poker calculators that automatically extract the current situation from a live game and compute hand probabilities and odds are not permitted.
Instead you need to manually enter your situation into a program like PokerZebra.
Betfair has one of the biggest and most flexible sign-up bonuses. You get to pick if you would like a $50, $250, $500, $1000 or $2500 bonus. Unlike some other sites located on the Ongame network, Betfair pays out the bonus in rates. This means that no matter which bonus you pick you dont have to clear the whole amount! This is great as not all of us are born as grinders.
HBGary’s servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published.
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Most frustrating for HBGary must be the knowledge that they know what they did wrong, and they were perfectly aware of best practices; they just didn’t actually use them. Everybody knows you don’t use easy-to-crack passwords, but some employees did. Everybody knows you don’t re-use passwords, but some of them did. Everybody knows that you should patch servers to keep them free of known security flaws, but they didn’t.