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.
Here are some issues affecting Full Tilt Poker multi-entry tournaments in Poker Copilot:
You enter one tournament, twice, thrice, or perhaps four times. Each entry has a different result, and wins different money
It may be a rebuy tournament. An entry bombs out, but you buy back in. Full Tilt Poker doesn’t show in the tournament summary whether you rebought once each for two entries, or twice for one entry.
Now you want to review the hands from the tournament. So you find the tournament in Poker Copilot’s summary. You double-click to see the hands. The hands can’t be clearly separated by entry as there is not enough information in the Full Tilt Poker hand history files and tournament summary files.
After taking these issues into account, I’ve settled on the following:
The Poker Copilot tournament summary combines all your buyins and winnings for every entry in a tournament into a single result. This is shown in the “Take” column.
The “Result” column indicates how your BEST entry in the tournament did.
Note that Full Tilt is not yet indicating the number of add-ons and rebuys correctly for multi-entry tournaments. Until this is fixed by Full Tilt, Poker Copilot will report incorrect winnings for rebuy multi-entry tournaments.
Almost 50% of my customers are from the USA. France, Germany, Canada, and UK all contribute significant numbers. Together with Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Russia, Finland, and Belgium, these 13 countries account for 90% of my sales.
Normalise for population, however, and USA moves down to tenth position:
Now I feel the Poker Copilot love coming from Europe!
