You are right , I'm gonna test it out and check it...

Just had an idea and wondered why it had never occurred to me to suggest it before.

Could you add an option on the Table1 tab to draw a colored border around tables that have 4 players left? This would be great for mass tabling SNG players to quickly notice that a game is on the bubble. I think this is even better than your OSD feature.
Maybe also make it so that we can change the thickness of the border.
Should be easy to add this?

EDIT: There should probably be checkbox to only draw the border on active tables with 4 players left. Or make that the default.

I have just found what I believe is the cause of the problem:
It is the automatic resizing on the Table2 tab. I had it set to constantly make sure I have the table size I want.
Like I said, it seemed that Poker Shortcuts was "scanning through" all of my tables every couple of seconds and I assume that this feature does exactly that.
I have been using this for Full Tilt since forever and never bothered to change it since I've had the layout with the table sizes I wanted saved in the Full Tilt client.

So either there is a problem with the code for Stars or it's just how it is with Stars and people should set "Table Size" to "None" once they have their desired layout saved.

Side note: Resizing tables using the Table2 tab on Stars takes a while (like 2 seconds after opening a default size table) whereas it is instantly done on Full Tilt. I assume this is not Poker Shortcuts' fault? (It's not so bad by any means just thought I'd mention it.)

I am using Windows XP btw.


EDIT: I think it may only be happening when you first start PokerStars, open all the tables, and then start Poker Shortcuts. I just did this and it's going nuts

what would be causing this -

when i tried to set up the sit n go opener, all PSC would tell me was 'make sure the lobby is visible'

i have 3 monitors so the stars lobby was not overlapped by anything

i let PSC know i was using the poker stars black lobby and the lobby was it's minimum size as required

what else do i need to do?

I have had intermittent issues with my HEM HUD showing thru stacked tables occasionally also, early in my testing of PSC. I do not use the Tables 2 on PSC, and have been using Stars Planner during testing. I dont think I remember any HUD bleed thru from my short session yesterday (the first session in a week, since I got over my cold). I will pay closer attention today, and I will try a portion of my session w/o stars planner to see if that may be part of the issue.

It had nothing to do with the HUD.
I recreated it without running HEM and the tables were just pretty much flashing one after the other in milliseconds when I did what I described above.
Just wanted to clarify: HUD flashing was just a side effect since the tables themselves were flashing.

EDIT: Stars Planner is not part of the issue, I have tried it with and without.

OK, thx - I misunderstood and thought our issues may have been somewhat similar. Luckily it sounds like my issues was less frequent and less distracting than yours.

Are you using largest lobby font size? Using Windows ClearType font?

Respawn,

I had the same problem until I chose None as my PSC table size. It seems the poker client and PSC were both competing to size the table.

I "think" there are ways to work around this but I haven't tested. I will see what I can find this weekend. BTW, I use PlaceMint for table positioning.

I'm running Vista and running PokerShortcuts as admin. I'm also using Vista's Basic theme (not Aero).

I have calibrated the felt color in the calib tab. I also set the FT them to Classic with Avatars in the set up tab.

I am using one of Fozzy (I think it's his) FT table mods I purchased from "TiltBusters". Here's a screen shot of the table mod in case that has anything to do with why the bet pot isn't work correctly on FT:




On PokerStars I'm using the HyperSimple theme and have that set in the set up tab of PokerShortcuts. I also calibrated the felt color for Stars. Here's a screen shot of my PS table in case that has anything to do with it:




Since my felt color is a little different, here's a screen shot of my calib tab in case something isn't correct here:



Seems strange that the bet pot doesn't work on either FT or PS for me. I must have something set up wrong on my end (obviously), but don't know what that could be.

Any help would be great as I LOVE the idea of using one program for both FT and Stars.

Sorry for the LONG post. I just wanted to give as much info as you might need to help with this.

The full tilt felt is not calibrated properly. You need to calibrate it on a table with no community cards displayed. The red and green in the flop/turn/river indicate that a table with a four color deck was active when you hit calibrate. FYI - That is one of Bar Nuthin's mods.

Thanks Fozzy. I re-calibrated with no board cards showing, but I still have the same problem. The amount entered into the bet window are not what I have set in PokerShortcuts for either FT or PS. With FTSC everything works perfect as does TableNinja on PS. I'd love to use one program for both FT and PS so I'd really like to get this worked out.

I just tested at 200PLO after recalibrating. I'm in the small blind and UTG opens for $4, mid position calls. It comes to me and $11 is entered into the bet window instead of $17 (the amount to bet the pot). Other amounts are off as well. Sometimes the amount entered into the bet window is actually smaller then the minimum bet amount.


Any other ideas what I can try to get the bet sizes correct?


Thanks.

Hopefully Nano can help you get it sorted.

When I was beta testing and multi-siting, using default themes it worked fairly well. Occasionally (once or twice per session) the full tilt tables wouldn't preset the bet properly (it would go to $0 instead), or some of the slider image would seem to disappear. In these instances manually clicking the ftp pot button could get me back on track so I could scroll adjust. For PokerStars my PSC seems to be very accurate while using one of my custom themes with betpot compatible images (the hyper-simple images for my typical stars based theme). I have it set to 4bb preflop and to round to small blind and it consistently opens to 3.5bb+1bb per limper. My tables are slightly smaller than default (696x508).

PSC is very fast and responsive for me on pokerstars. I am 8 tabling FR in a 2x2 tile 2 layers deep. I am still trying to get the muscle memory to be second nature for the gamepad, but PSC has been quite faultless. I have 3 different keys set on the actions tab, so I can use mouse, gamepad, or keyboard for action buttons so I can go to the mouse or keyboard if I fumble at the gamepad.

I use the classic theme, but if I choose to use my own custom background (table felt color doesn't change) would that affect the way the program works at all?

I am pretty sure it will affect some features of the program, I dropped an all black background on hyper simple during early beta testing and had to revert, don't remember which features were affected off hand.

I am having no joy opening 'turbo' SNG's.

I have followed all set up instructions and am able to open all the non turbo SNG's I have tried. I have used both styles of lobby and theme and can always open normal SNG's but never the turbos. As PSC is reading the screen maybe it has something to do with the fact that the word [turbo] is in bold?

I have just checked the image files in 'SngImages' and the word [turbo] is not in bold. I guess Stars have changed something in an update?

In the folder C:\Program Files\PokerShortcuts\Themes\PSLobbyBlack,

I have replaced the original

with which has the word 'turbo' in bold and am now able to open Turbo SNG's without any problems.

I think it only affects Full Tilt RaceTrack tables, and shouldn't matter for stars tables (but I am not 100% sure obv, so hopefully Nano will clarify) or FTP classic view. The FTP racetrack tables use a semi-transparent empty seat image. If the background is pure black it wont be able to distinguish the empty seats from the seated players, because the seated players (active or inactive) use pure black for the player name box (with a different border highlight color to distinguish). If the background is not pure black (it can be very close to black, with a minor hex color change) then PSC can read thru the empty seats and tell the color difference. The easiest way to be certain, for either site/theme, if you want a pure black background, is to just use a color that is almost pure black, but not exactly hex# 000000.

@nano:
I find a little bug in "Street Bet Trny".
If I uncheck the "Automatically put the street bet amount in the betting box" PSC
won´t save it and next startup the option is checked.

So i played a 150 sng session(16 stacked) and on the start my settings was:

[x]Auto-Close SnG anf MTT that Hero has finished(4sec)
[x]Close "you finished the tournament" dialog box(1sec)
FTP hang up 3 times in 15minutes.

Now i changed my settings to and no probs with the FTP client:
[ ]Auto-Close SnG anf MTT that Hero has finished
[x]Close "you finished the tournament" dialog box

I've tried everything to get it to autoreg me for the $60 pl omaha h/l 9 man turbo. It scans the lobby then won't find the screenshots shot that I take i guess. If anybody could help me out that would be great. Thanks.

Hi I have made you an image for the PSLobbyBlack setting



Although I don't play PLO I have tested it to see if it works and it opens the SNG fine.

Save this image as something like '$60 PLO HL Turbo' in

C:\Program Files\PokerShortcuts\Themes\PSLobbyBlack\SngImages . This is assuming you are using a standard folder setup if not you will have to change it to the PSC folder you are using

Next time you open PSC you should be able to go to Tab 'SnG A' and see the new option on the 'PS Sng 1' drop down menu.

Hope this helps

Got it, thx pitch. 1 more problem I'm having is when auto registering for sngs on full tilt I have the max sngs set to like 5000 because the games I play don't run often enough so I have to sit at like 5 different buy in levels. Unlike in full tilt shortcuts it will buy me into multiple sngs at the same levels such as 3 $55 turbos and so on until I have to stop it. I know I could set the minimum players to more than zero but I'm usually the one starting the games so that would be no help. I'd like to be registered at each desired buyin and then when the sng runs be re-registered at that level again. Hope this all makes sense. Love the product. Thanks for your help!!

The "Auto-Activate the next table with pending Action" funktion is a bit bugy.
Sometimes the tables pop up forward backward.
Sry my English ist horrible.