One of the liberating aspects of running my own one-person company is that I can respond to requests like this immediately. No committees, no approval forms, no seeking opinions from those far removed from the customers.
Cologne Needs You, Voltaire 682h1t
It’s mayoral election season in Cologne at the moment, and thus the streets are littered with “Vote for me because I’m different” signs.
This morning on a main street I noticed several election adverts for “Pro Köln”, our local far-right, anti-foreigner party. This evening as I rode down the same street, I saw that the same signs had been ripped up, destroyed.
This disheartens me. I don’t like Pro Köln. I find their anti-foreigner message detestable, especially as I am a foreigner living in Cologne. But I believe they have a right to their candidate for mayor. You can’t erase ideas you don’t like by ripping down signs.
As Voltaire apparently (but never actually) said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Where is that spirit, oh Colonian destroyers of signs?
Good News, Multi-Tablers 1n323c
Until now I’ve not been able to fully reproduce the problems multi-tablers are reporting with the HUD in Poker Copilot 2. Frustrating for me, and frustrating for the people trying to multi-table with Poker Copilot. So I brought out the heavy guns.
First, I wrote a program that pretends to be Full Tilt Poker. It simulates 17 tables open at once, and creates the hand history files for Poker Copilot to detect as if those 17 tables were being played by me, at the rate of roughly 1 hand per minute. But still I couldn’t reproduce a HUD failure.
Then I cranked up the simulator dial further. 17 tables, all producing 1 hand every 30 seconds, randomly give or take a few seconds. I started it up, then I went out for a swim. When I came back, a total of about 2500 hands had been simulated, and there – in front of me – was a misbehaving HUD.
The first challenge in fixing a bug is reproducing it. I am at that point. That makes solving the bug possible. And that is today’s good news.
If Poker Copilot crashes, upon next start-up you are given the option to delete your database and start again.
You can cancel most screens if they are taking too long to prepare. Like when you have 500,000 hands in your database, and you are viewing the player summary, then decided you really didn’t need to view the data for all time
Date ranges such as 1 Week and 1 Month now are 1 day shorter. 1 Week used to show you data for 1 week PLUS the current day. Now it’s 6 days PLUS the current day. (Thanks to loyal customer Jon for pointing this out)
The “No HUD data available yet” message has moved to the window’s title bar. This is in preparation for some coming HUD changes.
What’s Fixed?
The HUD is smoother. In my simulated 20-table tests, things were usable, although your mileage may vary.
When playing poker on a second monitor, the HUD player popup windows now appear at the right place. (Thanks to loyal customer Ryan for reporting this)
Unreadable files in your hand history folder no longer crash Poker Copilot
Drag the Poker Copilot icon to the Applications icon
If prompted to replace an existing version, confirm that you do want to replace
Now you’re done and ready to hit the tables.
What a Way to Go… 1u1gc
Bombed out of a tournament on a bad beat: my pocket aces lost to K8 unsuited…and the Poker Copilot replayer let me relive the agony over and over again.
A new Poker Copilot update is coming soon. But to avoid last Saturday’s catastrophe, I’m making this available to my blog readers a little earlier. This is to ensure that I have fixed the worst problems without introducing new ones.
Better handling of long-running queries and smoother shutting down
PokerStars Italy is working once more
Some hands that were not getting read in obscure situations now work
The disappearing menu problem is now less of a problem
The console now uses hardly any U and memory
What’s new:
Preferences: For my loyal Italian customers, you can now change the currency symbol to the euro sign.
Preferences: You can selectively turn off PokerStars to avoid the nagging “Please set your seating preferences” message (as suggested by dedicated Poker Copilot Keith)
Poker Copilot 2.02 Problems 1ab1n
I rushed out the most recent update under less than ideal circumstances. There are now both performance and stability issues, especially for multi-tablers.
Less than ideal circumstances? I was out of the country for a few days. I woke up in an alpine hotel room on saturday morning to an alpine-sized mountain of e-mails. 65 e-mails all saying basically the same thing: PokerStars released an update and now Poker Copilot isn’t working.
With my MacBook Pro from my hotel room I fixed this. However I was unable to test fully and use my full suite of tools. Quality suffered.
I’m now back in my office and working hard to track down and fix these problems. My apologies for all who are affected.
Poker Copilot Now Works with Latest PokerStars Update 2481f
I’ve now released Poker Copilot 2.02, which works with last night’s PokerStars update.
Poker Copilot 1 has also been updated for the same reason to version 1.83.
