(Note: This post has been heavily modified since the original release in August 2008)

This post is mostly outdated, please open the posts for the current version to get a better idea about the project.

Link to the latest stable release notes: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpre...date-0-29-905/
Link to the latest testing release notes: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpre...date-0-29-905/

Hi everyone,

I am proud to announce my new poker tracking software fpdb (freepokerdb, very imaginative I know ). You may wonder why I bothered when now with HM and PT3 there are at least two excellent packages to choose from.

Four main reasons:
1. Fpdb is free/libre open source software.
2. HM and PT3 only support holdem. Fpdb supports Holdem, Omaha, Stud and Razz, and Draw games
3. HM and PT3 run on Windows only, not even in wine. Fpdb runs on any plattform that has the required software, which will cover roundabout 99.9% of PCs. I am currently testing it on Windows XP and Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora
4. Fpdb won't irritate you with copy prevention measures.

To install it go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpdb/files/ and download the zip or tar.bz2, unpack it.

Installation instructions are available from: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...e=Installation

FAQ - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...sked_Questions

This is functional alpha software, and we are looking for people to contribute, but the project has quite a few users that are happy with the software now, and generally getting happier with the project as time goes by.

If anyone wishes to help with development that would be very very welcome. We have a mailing list and an IRC channel set up for discussion.

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...Developer_Info
• http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...ct_Suggestions
• https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=226872 - Mailing list
• #fpdb on Freenode for IRC
• http://trac-git.assembla.com/free_poker_tools/report/3 - Bug tracker

If you're not a programmer and you're not interested in learning it you can still help simply by trying it out and sending bug reports and feature requests. To avoid unrealistic expectations I'd like to state that it'll be a long time until fpdb reaches feature parity to established paid-for closed source trackers like HEM or PT.

Feature List (short now, growing fast ):

Backend, Distribution, Libraries
=====================
• Choice of MySQL/InnoDB or PostgreSQL, and in the development version SQLite
• It is possible to run the database on one PC, the importer on another, and then access the database with the HUD from a third PC.
• The project uses Python, PyGTK, the Pyhton numerical libraries NumPy, and Matplotlib for graphing.


Site/Game Support
=================

• Full support for Stars and FTP in all but draw games. (Stars has initial support for draw games)
• Good support for the Everleaf network
• Win2day/BossMedia, UltimateBet, Betfair, Absolute and PartyPoker all at least partially functional in the development tree (including the latest snapshot release.
• Supports Holdem, Omaha Hi and Omaha Hi/Lo. Stud (Hi, Hi/Lo), Razz. Draw games in Alpha
• Supports No Limit, Pot Limit, Fixed Limit NL, Cap NL and Cap PL
• Supports ring/cash games, SnG/MTT

Please note that the focus is currently on cash games, as thats what most of the developers play. Any contributors that would like to concentrate on SnG/Tourneys will be welcomed with open arms.

HUD
======

The HUD is configurable, but mostly through the config file at the moment. It has most of the usual array of stats avaiable.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawik...itle=Howto_HUD


Stats Viewer/Session Viewer
==========

The most recent snapshots contain a Player Stats viewer that has become quite functional in the last few months. It provides quite detailed stats by many filters and breakdowns. Currently focused on Holdem games, but that is being worked on.

There is also an experimental Session viewer in the development snapshot.


Final Notes
===========

IMPORTANT: The database format WILL undergo more changes and at this point I am not planning to write a converter so please keep your history files so you can re-import when necessary. Independent of this you should always keep the original raw files in a safe place with any tracking software. Should you however end up loosing your files somehow let me know and I'll try to help.

Please send any feedback, feature requests/suggestions, bug reports and animal names to this thread, the mailing list, or the bug tracker.

Enjoy!

Steffen (and the Fpdb team)

Hi, very good idea...
Hope some good programmer will join your project

That sounds really great! So the endless waiting for all mac poker player seems to come to an end!

Incidentially that was one of the original motivators for me, being tired of a friend moaning about not having a tracker on Mac
He uses Windows for Poker now but I'll write instructions for one of the next alphas anyways.

In the meantime it should work on Mac, you just need to install all the software listed in requirements.txt. If you give it a go I'd appreciate if you can let me know how it went, happy to help if you run into any trouble.

I get "error: invalid project" from sourceforge

I am getting the same.

This looks promising though. Of course I need that HUD, but I would love to test this stuff out at every iteration simply because I love freeware.

Spent hours preparing the documentation and then made a typo on the link.. here's the correct one, sorry

https://sourceforge.net/project/show...roup_id=226872

yeah that works better - I fixed the link in the OP. Will check this out sometime soon, wish I knew python

Looks very interesting. Will try and check it out soon.

Juk

a cross platform open source tracker+hud would be so great, good luck and hope I can help at some stage.

can someone post some screenshots?

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4. Fpdb won't irritate you with copy prevention measures. (it has other irritations instead )



Ok I'll ask about the 600 lb. gorilla in the room. What are these other irritations are you talking about?

Imported a couple of hundred hands. vpip/pfr seemed perfect and 3bet/4bet seemed fine aswell in the small sample.
SD/F i presume is went to showdown? That was a little off with a couple of players, as were W$wsf and W$@SD. One player had an SD/F of 15%(13) and a W$@SD of 24%(2) which doesnt make sense I think.

Looks very good for an alpha stage, looking forware to updates.
I ran it on an old laptop running fluxbuntu btw.

Can't promise open source, free or cross-platform, but I will certainly port my HUD to this if it looks promising.

_dave_: Cheers for fixing the link
You should have a look at python, it's brilliant.

The Icon: I'll post screenshots in a minute.

I think I expressed that badly
I'm not aware of any nuisance at the moment, but of course many very handy things are just missing because it's still very young. The main usability features missing are an auto-importer and a HUD.

The reason I came up with my own abbreviations for these values are that I wasn't sure what exactly the comparable entries in HM mean (never bothered to look it up).
The exact means are: SD/F percent of time the player saw showdown when they saw the flop. (yep I believe this is the same as WtSD)
W$wsF is how often the player got cash when seeing the flop (irrespective of at which round they got the cash)
W$@SD is how often they won cash when tehy made it all the way to showdown.
For the W$ values it's important to note that fpdb takes split pot into account - if some made 1$ out of a 3$ pot it will only count as 1/3.

Does this clear up the differences? If not I'll manually check the import a few more hands, I've only done 3 so far. I'll also be writing a hand anonymiser script so people can send me histories without worrying about trusting me. Also, was the number too high or too low?