Beta 26 Released

[Josh]

Added:

• New Site: MicroGaming
• New Site: Entraction
• New Graph: Expected Value - All-In Performance
• Replayer: Win percentages

Changed:

• Optimized startup routine
• Hud: Lockup detection and correction
• PostgreSQL: Default service password changed to be compliant with strict Windows password policies

Fixed:

• Hud: Players with slashes (\) in their name
• Hud: Cereus tables not being recognized
• Hud: Import problem with tournament profiles
• Hud: Last X Hands filter for tournaments
• Hud: Pure virtual call error messages/crashes
• Replayer: Hud not working when replaying the same hands repeatedly
• Replayer: Hud losing chosen profile when moving back and forth between hands
• Report: Sessions - Details BB/100 fixed to use the actual hand count for the day
• Report: Sessions - Details Standard Deviation statistic
• Report: Custom report filter validation
• Import: OnGame hands exported from PT2 without chip counts
• Import: Party tournament summary email not importing placement information
• Import: Antes placing a player all-in caused import errors
• Import: iPoker all-in database flags
• Import: Unexpected end of hand history for Pacific auto import
• Import: Everest 6 max tables not being recognized as such
• Import: Pacific hands importing limit as "$0.1" instead of "$0.10"
• Export: Tournament summaries not exporting with certain filter configurations
• PostgreSQL: Startup attempt failing due to slow startup time
• Cache: Adding an alias not combining cached values until the cache was rebuilt

The biggest change in this release is the addition of two new sites: MicroGaming and Entraction. One thing to note is that while PT3 imports both cash and tournament hands from each network, MicroGaming tournament tables offer no way to uniquely identify the tables. For now, the Hud won't work on MicroGaming tournament tables.

Another highly requested feature has been added: the all-in equity graph. This graph shows your actual winnings as well as your expected winnings. It determines this by calculating your EV (expected value) against the hands you went all-in against. If you went all-in against someone and at the time of the all-in you were an 80% favorite, then the expected winnings line treats that hand as if you won 80% of the pot regardless of your actual results. This gives you an idea of how good your all-in calls/bets were. If the actual winnings line is higher than the expected winnings line, then you ran well. This is just the start of the equity functionality that will be added to PT3. Also important to note is that the equity values are not currently stored in the database. The all-in equities are calculated on the fly as the report is run.

Also added in this release is win percentages to the replayer. Next to the player's name in the replayer it shows their chances of winning the pot if all the players currently in the pot went to showdown. It uses card information only if it is shown on the table. That means if you have all known hole cards shown, then the percentages will reflect that. If you have the known cards hidden, then random hands are assumed.

A large number of bugs were fixed for this release as well. Most notably being the (hopeful) elimination of the "pure virtual call" error message that causes PT3 to crash. Very few people experience this particular problem, but hopefully now nobody will. Also, a few people experience the Hud locking up (not updating, not allowing interaction with the poker window). While we continue to search for the elusive cause of this, we've added measures that let PT3 detect this and automatically terminate and restart the Hud process. While we certainly want to fix the underlying cause of the problem, this workaround should prove useful to those patiently waiting for us to find it.

Another common complaint was the long startup times for PT3. Some work went into optimizing the startup routine for this release. Because PT3 is so dynamic (custom stats and reports), it has to build everything on the fly at startup. That means startup times will likely never be instant. However, we were able to cut startup time in half on my computer so hopefully those of you experiencing long startup times will see an improvement.

Thanks to those of you who have submitted hands to us, but we still need more. We need hands from the following sites:

• Betfair
• Bodog
• Cryptologic
• Tain Network
• Tribeca
• *Old* Ultimate Bet
• World Poker Exchange

We need hand histories in all formats and both cash and tournament hands. For sites that use database files or single xml files or whatever, we need those as well as any datamining formats and PT2 exported formats. The more hand histories we get, the easier and faster it will be for us to get support added for the site. The sites above are not listed in the order we will be adding them. We have been going by http://pokerscout.com and adding the sites by size. We may continue to do this or we may skip around now that the unsupported sites are pretty similar in size. To submit your hand histories, please follow this link.

[Alexd10]

awesome, thanks

[R3mbrandt]

EV-Graph for tournaments would be very nice!

Thx,
R3mbrandt

[WhiteRider]

Much more EV stuff is planned - this is just a taster - but EV for tournaments is way more complicated than for cash hands.

[sym25]

thanks for your work.
How to make HUD load not 'Default' profile at startup?

[alonalbert]

Also important to note is that the equity values are not currently stored in the database. The all-in equities are calculated on the fly as the report is run.

Any plans on storing this in the DB? It makes things so much faster for large samples.

Also, how about showing a red line for the EV (difference between the green & blue lines) and a floating box with the usual some numbers including the total EV difference.

[WhiteRider]

thanks for your work.
How to make HUD load not 'Default' profile at startup?

This isn't yet possible, but we hope it will be added soon - Kraada and I have been pushing for this too as we know a lot of people will want it.

[WhiteRider]

Also important to note is that the equity values are not currently stored in the database. The all-in equities are calculated on the fly as the report is run.

Any plans on storing this in the DB? It makes things so much faster for large samples.

Also, how about showing a red line for the EV (difference between the green & blue lines) and a floating box with the usual some numbers including the total EV difference.

Yes, the plan is to store it in the DB - this is just a teaser, much more info and options will be added.

[js2002]

See screenshots: HE Luck says more unluck than PT3 does.

http://rapidshare.com/files/213369684/Screenshots.rar.html

@DEVs: thx für the many fixes and Equity Percentages in Replayer!

[WhiteRider]

It's possible that they are looking at different situations, or even doing the calculations slightly differently - the EV graph in PT3 is just a basic teaser version: much more detail will be added.