A long-standing issue in Poker Copilot is that the All-in EV Chart is not very useful for tournaments. Using chips instead of big blinds as the y-axis distorts the chart. Unless you win a tournament, you’ll always incur during the tournament a positive EV diff of about 1500 tournament chips – assuming that each player starts with 1500 chips. If you come second in a 10,000 person tournament, you’ll normally win a lot of money. But your EV diff will still show +1500 tournament chips.
By using big blinds as the y-axis, the numbers are somewhat normalised. I still don’t think the numbers are perfect, but I can’t quite work out why.
For both the freelancer and the poker player goes the same things. They have to be mentally fit every day, and more importantly, every time he sits at the poker table or in front of the computer to get creative. The only way to do this is by getting exercise and taking plenty of time away from the computer to stress of and think of anything else than work/poker.
Random Slovenian trivia: the language has a singular word for beer (pivo), a plural word for beer (piva), and a word for exactly two beers (pivi). Google Translate offers proof.
Winamax Poker Tournament Summaries are now auto-imported. Note that Winamax summaries from tournaments played before Wednesday 14th December, 2010 can’t be imported into Poker Copilot. Poker Copilot will report them as erroneous files. I recommend deleting them.
The player icons are updated.
Full Tilt Poker Rush On Demand tournaments are now HUD-ded.
There’s a new player filter (under the “More” menu on the filter bar). This only is available for ring games.
Ongame speed tables are now supported
What’s fixed:
Really long tournaments with enormous chip individual tallies no longer “clock” Poker Copilot. For programmers: I used an INT in the database for several fields assuming that no-one would ever have more than 21,474,836 tournament chips. I assumed wrong. Now I use a BIGINT, allowing up to T92,233,720,368,547,758. That should hold things together for a while.
Full Tilt Poker tournament summaries are now once more correctly loaded
There is a known bug in calculating All-in EV for split pots in Winamax that I promised to fix for this update. However I didn’t get it fixed yet, but is high priority.
Here’s how adding tournament results to Winamax went:
Me: “Hey Winamax, could you add auto-saving of tournament results?”
Winamax: “Sure, Steve, any ideas on what they should include?”
Me: “Yes!” [pours forth copious info]
Winamax: “Hey Steve we did that tournament results thing.” [And it was almost exactly how I requested it.]
Me: “Hey Winamax, there’s some problems with the new tournament results. Here’s a list.”
Winamax: “Hey Steve, we’ve fixed those problems you listed.”
Why do I include this dialog? To demonstrate this: online poker rooms developers, listen up. If you want feedback, suggestions, info, on how you can make your Mac OS X software great, I’m willing to enthusiastically contribute. If it helps to make Poker Copilot better, I’ll give you all the feedback you need to make your software easy to integrate with Mac OS X poker tracking software like Poker Copilot.
So Winamax players, no longer will you need to manually enter your tournament buy-ins, placings, and winnings.
These screenshots show you that some Winamax player out there was handed an easy tournament win! I often play online poker to test specific Poker Copilot issues and not to win, leading to some erratic playing behaviour.
There’s a new kid on the block of Mac OS X poker rooms. The Merge Network has released a native Mac OS X client. It seems to be a small network so far, with less than 3,000 players currently online at the time of writing. As a comparison, PokerStars, the biggest online poker room, has just over 100,000 players currently inline.
I tried to sign up to Carbon Poker, which uses Merge Network’s software. I tried to test it out but I got nowhere. I got stuck in an infinite sign-up loop with no feedback on why my sign-up process failed.
I’ll wait a week or two and try signing up again. With such a small number of players, it is not worthwhile for me to spend much time working with a broken site, when there are many things I can do to improve Poker Copilot for current customers.
Interestingly, Merge Network uses XML in its hand history files, whereas all poker rooms currently supported by Poker Copilot use a plain text format. Normally I work with XML with distaste but in this case it seems it will make parsing the hand history files somewhat easier.
The next update of Poker Copilot will have a new filter in the “More” drop-down menu: the ability to filter by hands where a specific player was at the table:
So, for example, I can filter for all hands where player XYZ was sitting in at the table. It doesn’t matter if XYZ folded pre-flop, took down the hand, or anything in between. As long as the player is at the table for the hand, the hand will be included in the filter.
This filter is for ring games only for now. If feasible I may add it for tournaments later.
If the player filter is used, screen updates will take much longer than usual. That’s because what Poker Copilot does to make this feature available is quite complex.
You’ll need to be a computer programmer to appreciate this. IntelliJ IDEA 10, the best dang programmer’s editor there ever was, has witty “Drag to install” artwork:
A great product largely because they understand the importance of the getting the small things right.
Some users – perhaps all using Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) – have reported unusual rendering problems in Poker Copilot. Here’s a couple of example screenshots:
I believe I’ve located the problem and hope to have an update with a fix available tomorrow.
