There’s a new experimental feature which allows you to override the detected table size within the HUD. This is mostly of use to AbsolutePoker/UB players, because it is tricky to auto-detect whether a table is 6-max or full size. To turn on this feature, go to the Preferences and check “Allow manual table size override”.
Updated language bundles
The database startup process does an improved optimisation to keep the database running at a rollicking rate.
What’s fixed:
Winamax hands don’t report the timezone correctly. Poker Copilot now auto-detects this problem and fixes them.
I’ve arrived in Beirut, where Poker Copilot will be based for a while. Now that I staying in one city, things have started moving again for the next Poker Copilot update.
It’s great to be once more in a country where the web is uncensored. YouTube, FaceBook, BlogSpot: these, amongst others, were all theoretically inaccessible in neighbouring Syria. Many locals seemed to have no problem getting around these restrictions.
Are you in Beirut or passing through sometime soon? Make sure to let me know so we can have a Poker Copilot meet-up, and perhaps a friendly poker night.
First: the last few days I’ve had limited access to the Internet. So many apologies if you have been waiting for an answer to an email you sent. I hope to take care of all the emails in my inbox today.
Second: why did I have limited Internet? I’m travelling slowly towards my winter destination of Beirut, Lebanon. I spent a few days in the autonomous (and very safe) Iraqi province of Kurdistan. Nice people, nice food, but lousy Internet.
Third: loyal Poker Copilot customer and blog reader Phil writes:
I miss your news! Hope you’re doing well under the lebanese sunshine!
I’m not yet in Lebanon but very close. I’m in Aleppo, Syria, a very ancient city. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Sometime in the next few days I’ll arrive in Beirut, where I’ll settle for some weeks or months. During that time I’ll aim to release some Poker Copilot updates.
On the road I’ve also found some time to work on Poker Copilot. The next update will deal with a common problem for UB/Absolute Poker players – you’ll be able to easily override the table size if Poker Copilot if it incorrectly determines the table size. This should sort out the issues where the HUD layout is sometimes incorrect.
I’ve also been working on an experimental application programming interface (API). The API will allow anyone with a bit of programming knowledge to work with the Poker Copilot data in various ways. It will even give you all the real-time data you need to create your own alternative HUD! The language-agnostic API is accessed via HTTP web services.
Poker CoPilot however comes in ONE VERSION for ONE PRICE that does everything because there is no reason to be greedy jerks like other developers.
I think “greedy jerk” is a bit harsh…perhaps revenue-optimising entrepreneur is a softer way of writing it.
I keep meaning to write a blog article on software pricing: why I’ve settled on $59.95 as the price; and why I’ve adopted the “one version for one price” model. Soon, I hope, I’ll write it.
Adding icons to represent players’ playing styles has been on my list of things to do for roughly two years. It is time to finally do something about this.
Loyal Poker Copilot customer and graphic designer Michael has offered to create icons of Rocks, Sharks, Donks, Bomb, Red Fish, Green Fish, Callling Station, etc, that can be displayed next to each player either in the HUD or in the Player Summary.
I know some other products already do this so I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. What icons do you think we should include? And what criteria should be used for assigning the icons? I’ve love your feedback in the comments or in the discussion forum.
I was going to write “Poker Copilot on the Rails” as my title, which would be more accurate and literal, but unfortunately has a negative colloquial meaning.
I’m writing from Sofia, Bulgaria. In the last week I’ve been on two night trains. One took me from my home in Cologne, Germany to Vienna, Austria. The other was a 19 hour train journey from Budapest, Hungary to Sofia via Belgrade, Serbia. I’ve been doing Poker Copilot support and bug fixes from hotel rooms, cafes, train carriages, and the lounge room sofa in a cosy backpackers hostel. It has been a week-long experiment as to whether this would actually work. Due to the ubiquity of free wireless Internet connections and the computing power of the latest MacBook Pro it has worked.
I’m heading toward Lebanon. I hope to spend the northern hemisphere winter in Beirut, a city with mild winters. I detest cold weather.
I’m taking the slow road (or train?) there. I’ve been preparing for this trip for some time. In the last couple of weeks before I started, I did most of my Poker Copilot support on the computer I intended to take with me, from various locations such as cafes and the apartment of friends to make sure I had all the correct software installed that I needed.
Livin’ the dream! This is what is possible when you start a one-person software company and keep it a one-person company. Which was always my goal with Poker Copilot. Instead of obsessive plans of financial growth, keep it a company I can run alone.
Heavy Poker Copilot users – multi-tablers and people with big databases – have been hitting performance and stability issues with the current Poker Copilot update. I think I’ve tracked down the worst of the problems. If this has affected you, you can download an unofficial update I’ve made available on the Poker Copilot translation page.
To get the improvements you’ll need to download this update and reset your database.
I’d be grateful for any feedback from people who try this out.
And now a technical explanation: the main cause was the “Recently Seen Hands” addition to the HUD. The database query that obtains this information was not using the database index I wanted it to be using. So it was doing a “full table scan” – a dread phrase that puts terror in the hearts of database admins.
This update also has the following fixes and improvements:
Support for Cereus Network 7-2 hands
Fixed two causes of Poker Copilot crashes
Updated translations
Support for new Full Tilt capped limit hand history format
Added 4-bet stats to summary tables
Added 4-bet stats to dashboards
Fix for missing colour scheme for new HUD statistics
Fix for crash caused by selecting “Reset HUD” for new users
There’s also some extra logging added to the console to help me troubleshoot some additional problems, particularly related to UB and AbsolutePoker HUD layout issues.
I received no Poker Copilot crash reports at all since releasing the current update. I was pleased. Smug even. Until I received an email that said, “Poker Copilot crashed. I sent the error report.” But I didn’t get any error report… hmmm… this is suspicious.
I check the server to which your computer sends Poker Copilot crash reports. Oh. The crash report handler is not running since I did something else briefly on that server. I start the crash report handler again. I get crash reports, which reveal problems caused by the latest update.
I’m in the process of eliminating the problems one-by-one.
Poker Copilot user Jeff has 800,000 hands in his database and plays 20 tables at once. He wrote that he was having problems with the HUD lagging and pausing. He then used a product called MainMenu to clean up his Mac and the lag problems went away. This is worth considering if you also multi-table.
