At US$4.99/€3.99, It is priced for impulse purchases. I’ve sold three copies so far in the first few days. This is only coffee money but I’m happy with it. It took me six weeks to get my first Poker Copilot sale when I launched in July 2008.
I find this Mac OS X App Store experiment intriguing. That a small hobby app like PokerZebra can be available for purchase with Apple handling all the e-commerce, online storage, and downloading opens up a new world of software sales.
If you are a software developer and have an idea for a small Mac OS X app, I encourage you to put together a minimum viable product and submit to to the App Store. Price it low enough for impulse purchases and you may even sell some copies. There’s nothing like the first sale or two to motivate you to further product development.
The software is great, and compared to other smaller networks which supports Mac, CarbonPoker really comes out on the top, due to the almost endless possibilities provided in the lobby and at the table. But if you are looking for a place which has a lot of players and action you might want to look for another site.
Getting players to join a new online poker site must be a chicken-and-egg problem: “I won’t play there because there are not enough players”, people tell themselves.
For Poker Copilot, it is also my most common support request. Except the days when PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker release an update that breaks Poker Copilot. 🙁
That’s enough blogging for today. I need to resend some people their lost license keys!
Congratulations to Alvis who won the first Poker Copilot tournament on PokerStars Home Games. Alvis wins a free Poker Copilot license. Alvis had to beat only six other players, one of whom was me.
As I write this, a second tournament is due to start in 1 hour and 22 minutes. Again, the winner will get a free Poker Copilot license, either for themselves or for a frriend.
Here’s how to join the Poker Copilot club on PokerStars – so that you can enter the tournament:
If you don’t already have it, download the free PokerStars software from www.pokerstars.com
Open the main poker lobby, then click on the Home Games tab
Click the ‘Join a Poker Club’ button
Enter my Club ID number: 109376
Enter my Invitation Code: Let me in the Copilot Club
That’s it! Once I’ve approved your membership request, we’ll be ready to start playing Home Games online together.
Tournament #1 starts at 12 noon ET, (5pm in the UK, and 6pm in Western Europe).
Tournament #2 starts at 6pm ET, which should suit Americans and Canadians.
I’ve decided to give a free license of Poker Copilot to the winner of each tournament. Using Poker Copilot’s trial version? Here’s your chance to get a free full version. Already have the full version? Win and you can give your prize to a friend.
People sometimes ask if they can purchase Poker Copilot by transferring via an online poker room. I’ve long had a policy of allowing this, via PokerStars transfer or Full Tilt Poker transfer.
Yesterday, however, when I tried to routinely cash out the money in my PokerStars account, the cash out was cancelled. Here is an excerpt from an email PokerStars sent me explaining why they did this:
Our transfer tool is only meant to help players fund their accounts when they are unable to deposit with deposit options currently available to them. All funds added to your account via transfer must be used to play at our tables.
We are restricted by our license agreement in the Isle of Man and this prevents us from being able to offer a real money transfer service for the purpose of cashing out.
In this case, your cashout has been cancelled and funds have been returned to your account balance. You are welcome to play with the funds or to return it back to the sender.
You should use a money transferring service outside of PokerStars for transfers which are not meant to be played at our tables.
Someone uncovered an obscure bug in the Java computer language which has been there since, probably, for ever. Which is 15 years or so in the Java universe. The bug hangs Java when trying to convert one specific string to a floating point number. This also affects some other programming languages which use the same de facto standard algorithm.
There are probably obscure bugs in most every modern programming language – and therefore in most every software built using modern programming languages – that can remain hidden for years, even decades.
Most of the summaries remember column orders. Move “Aggression %” to the first column and it will stay there for next time you open Poker Copilot.
Added support for FTP multi-entry tournaments. But read here for limitations. Thanks to loyal Poker Copilot customers who sent me a range of multi-entry tournament summaries.
Added “Hero” filter to “More” menu – although it doesn’t quite work as intended in the “Players” summary yet
What’s fixed:
PokerStars home game tournaments were not being recognised as tournament, causing the HUD not to work and stats to get confused. If you had this problem already, you’ll need to reset your Poker Copilot database to correct your stats. (File -> “Reset Database”)
On Merge Network rooms, such as Carbon Poker, the HUD now works simultaneously on multiple tables at the same stake level.
