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Steve McLeod: Poker Copilot 3 Available Now

Steve McLeod — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Meet Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar. They are the three Poker Copilot kings. And together they are announcing the release of Poker Copilot 3. It's available now for download.

Poker Copilot 3 costs US$69 or 55 euros. Existing Poker Copilot customers can update to Poker Copilot 3 for free.

The new features in Poker Copilot 3 have been added to Poker Copilot 2 gradually over recent months. The new features include:

Optionally ignore old hand history files
2+2 forums hand formatter
Rake info in the Advanced Dashboard
Improvement in the HUD popup panel appearance
Extra row of HUD stats
Two HUD layouts - one for ring games and one for tournaments
Search tournaments with free text search
The bottom bar now includes more info - # of tournaments and database size
You can view the all-in equity chart in currency ($) or in big blinds (BB)
Searching for players and tournaments tells you how many matches you have
You can use Poker Copilot in any available language without changing your computer's language
There's also many small bug fixes and user interface tweaks that should give you a better poker tracking experience

Steve McLeod: Poker Copilot 3 Final Release Candidate

Steve McLeod — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:49:00 +0000

Unless any showstopper problems surface, this unofficial update will be the official Poker Copilot 3: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot3.00_rc4.dmg

Download it, try it out, and if all is well, at the end of the week I'll release this as Poker Copilot 3.

Steve McLeod: What's Holding up Poker Copilot 3

Steve McLeod — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Everything is set for release…except one problem that has been nagging at me for ages: Poker Copilot sometimes miscalculates All-in EV for Winamax. I've got a bunch of tests for edge cases and I'm determined to get all the tests passing. You could say that I'm using my fervent desire to fully release Poker Copilot 3 as a rod with which to beat my own back and get this done.

Steve McLeod: How Not to Use Poker Tracking Software

Steve McLeod — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:19:00 +0000

I met Oliver last night at the pub. Oliver works in the poker industry. I explained to him about Poker Copilot, and he said, "Ahhh, it is like Hold'em Manager".

"Yep," I said. "Like Hold'em Manager but Hold'em Manager is for Windows only whereas Poker Copilot is for Mac."

Oliver described how he once installed Hold'em Manager and it imported his hands. "It told me I was playing like crap so I uninstalled it."

I'll file this under "Don't Shoot the Messenger".

Steve McLeod: Poker Copilot Russian Translation Updated

Steve McLeod — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:42:00 +0000

One of the things I wanted to get into order before releasing Poker Copilot 3 is the Russian translation. I have a small but steady stream of Russian customers and I suspect that with some concerted effort I can increase the importance of the Russian-speaking world to my sales.

The Russian translation of Poker Copilot is now complete:

You can download an unofficial update of Poker Copilot now with the following recent improvements:

Russian translation
Other translations updated
Optionally ignore old hand history files
2+2 forums hand formatter
Rake info in the Advanced Dashboard
Some bugs fixed in Ongame Network support
Improvement in the HUD popup panel appearance
Extra row of HUD stats

Here is the download: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.102_rc15.dmg

Or you can wait a couple of days at the most for the official release of Poker Copilot 3.

Steve McLeod: Coming in the Next Update: Ignore Old Hand History Files

Steve McLeod — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000

Occasionally a Poker Copilot customer asks, "I want to stay afresh with my Poker Copilot database. How do I get rid of all old data?" Until now the answer has been quite convoluted: Find and delete all old hand history files, then reset your Poker Copilot database.

However the next update will have a better, less destructive solution. You'll be able to tell Poker Copilot to ignore any hand history files older than a particular date:

You'll still need to reset your database to get rid of existing data, but you can safely keep the old hand history files in case you change your mind later and want to see the older data.

Steve McLeod: Coming in the Next Update: Poker Copilot can format for 2+2 forums

Steve McLeod — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0000

As far as I know, the 2+2 poker forums are still the most popular poker forums on the Internet. So I've modified Poker Copilot to format hands so that they can be posted directly onto 2+2:

Here's what the hand looks like when posted into 2+2:

Steve McLeod: From the "It's About Time, Too" Department

Steve McLeod — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:53:00 +0000

The next Poker Copilot update will - finally - show you how much rake you've paid. Here's a screenshot of the Advanced Dashboard:

This is also available in the custom charts:

Steve McLeod: Poker Copilot Business Cards

Steve McLeod — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:09:00 +0000

Finally, after 3 years and more of Poker Copilot, I got myself some Poker Copilot business cards:

I created these using Moo.

Steve McLeod: Playing on Entraction Network?

Steve McLeod — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:53:00 +0000

Loyal Poker Copilot user Jarek asks whether I'll add Entraction Network support to Poker Copilot. Are you playing on an Entraction Network room, such as 24h? If so, let me know in the comments that you would like to see Poker Copilot work with the Entraction Network.

Steve McLeod: Unofficial Update for Ongame Players

Steve McLeod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:54:00 +0000

I've spent some time today looking into some problems Poker Copilot has been having with Ongame. Notably, I had misunderstood how preferred seating worked in Ongame. I've adjusted Poker Copilot to handle this. Now you are required to set a preferred seat in your Ongame software for Poker Copilot's HUD to work.

You can download this unofficial update here: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.102_rc13.dmg

Steve McLeod: One Person with Two Accounts Playing on Ongame?

Steve McLeod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000

I suspect a person can create an account with one Ongame partner, create a second account with another Ongame partner, and play on both accounts at the same table at the same time. I'm not certain as I didn't want to test this and get my accounts banned.

In trying to understand how the different Ongame Network clients prevent hand history files from interfering with each other, I played on two Ongame partners at once: bwin and Betfair. I signed in as notasteve on bwin, and as stevoski222 on Betfair.

I went to the play tables, and played on two different tables, one per account. However I noticed that I could see the same tables, and - potentially - play at the same table with two different user accounts.

Same IP address, same computer, same tables, different Ongame partners, different accounts. I think Ongame ought to fix this quickly.

Steve McLeod: Small Tweaks in Poker Copilot Preferences

Steve McLeod — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:40:00 +0000

Showing Hand History Folders in Finder

In Mac OS X Lion, Finder doesn't show the "Library" folder anymore(although there are several ways to access it). Some online poker rooms supported by Poker Copilot store their hand history files within Library, so to help you get to these files, I've added "Show in Finder" to Poker Copilot's list of hand history folders:

This will force the folder to appear in Finder.

Incomplete Language Packs

Some of Poker Copilot's translations are quite incomplete. I think it may be jarring for some people to use half-translated software. So I've categorised several of the translation packs as "incomplete". They are currently Spanish (Spain), Russian, Polish. Portuguese (Portugal), and Portuguese (Brazil). From the next update, Poker Copilot won't use any of these translations until I mark them as complete. However you can override this:

This is a temporary preference, which I'll remove once all the translations are complete enough.

Steve McLeod: Ongame Network and Poker Copilot

Steve McLeod — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Poker Copilot is now working with the following Ongame Network partners:

HeyPoker
BwinPoker
RedKingsPoker
BetfairPoker
GDPoker
Bet24Poker
PAFSpadePoker
BetssonPoker
GoalwinPoker

I haven't yet released the Poker Copilot update with this improvement. But you can try out this unofficial early-release which supports all the poker rooms listed above: http://pokercopilot.com/downloads/pokercopilot2.102_rc11.dmg

Steve McLeod: Buy Poker Copilot via Bank Transfer

Steve McLeod — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:33:00 +0000

In some European countries, bank transfers are a popular way to buy electronically. Until now you couldn't buy Poker Copilot with a bank transfer, except on an informal basis. Now it is available as a purchase option for everybody:

Our reliable, professional, successful e-commerce partner is FastSpring and they just added this new option.