Dollar to BB conversion? - collected threads edition - Page 3

wHaTTaDo · 08-08-2008, 10:46 AM

id be interested in this too for m(more usable than stack vs bb ratio)

Spy Vs. · 10-13-2008, 12:33 PM

Basically I want to be able to multi at different limits and have all of the action be represented visually in big bets so that I don't spew at the lower games.

Does a mod/script/whatever that does this exist for any site?

Thanks.

oracle3001 · 10-13-2008, 01:05 PM

There was once an application for party, but it has long since stopped working.

You won't now find a script or mod for any other site that actually changes the $->BB, or anybody else writing one. The reason is simple, you can't just mod a client in the way you do for the cards or table look. In order to change the display so that it is shown in terms of BB rather than $, requires an application to capture and alter data processed in the inner working of the poker client. This is a difficult and dangerous path to go down, and not one that any software developer would want to do with little to no return for doing so.

Your only hope is that somebody does something like along the lines of one of the full tilt add-on apps that has the ability to show your stack as M in a seperate overlay for MTT's. However, I think HM and PT3 have both said they won't be calculating M on the fly and showing it in the HUD. They feel it is very close to breaking T&C's of the sites.

**Newff** · 01-26-2009, 05:06 PM

I play sng's on Full Tilt..and i'm not good at mental math especially when multitabling. Is there any way to possibly have numbers next to each player saying how many big blinds are in their stack?

a nonymous · 01-26-2009, 06:05 PM

I think FTS does this. You might have to mouseover the player not sure if you can have it showing at all times.

**Newff** · 01-26-2009, 06:34 PM

Would be nice..I was gonna buy FTS anyway so I can play with a gamepad...unless theres a cheaper and better way to play with a gamepad?

Dire · 09-27-2009, 07:38 AM

I sometimes play multiple stakes and it's a bit annoying having to measure everything out in $ instead of bb. Is it possible to develop a software mod to display bets/etc uniformly in bb instead of $?

I'd be willing to pay a decent amount for it as well, though as a software developer myself I can't even imagine how this is possible to develop in a reasonable way.

jukofyork · 09-27-2009, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Dire

I sometimes play multiple stakes and it's a bit annoying having to measure everything out in $ instead of bb. Is it possible to develop a software mod to display bets/etc uniformly in bb instead of $?

This question comes up quite often: there used to be something I wrote called "Dollar2BB" (Party/Empire only), but it only worked on a single limit at a time. I think one of the shortcut applications can also do this to some degree via a HUD window.

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I'd be willing to pay a decent amount for it as well, though as a software developer myself I can't even imagine how this is possible to develop in a reasonable way.

The "Dollar2BB" application simply hooked TextOutA() (or a similar function). This works fine so long as all the limits are the same, but if you add multiple limits at the same time it requires a lot of tricky book-keeping to keep track of write write is going to which window because of the back-buffering (ie: you would also have to hook BitBlt() or a similar function).

Juk

fozzy71 · 09-27-2009, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jukofyork

This question comes up quite often:...

Too bad there wasn't an updated FAQ that addressed this question.

jukofyork · 09-27-2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by fozzy71

Too bad there wasn't an updated FAQ that addressed this question.

I just asked _dave_ about it now (it's not finished yet, but going live with it now is prolly the best option).

Juk

fozzy71 · 09-27-2009, 03:19 PM

agreed

skeetm0n · 09-28-2009, 06:12 PM

Is there such a thing as making money bets on a poker site look like BB's instead? For example if i was playing 400NL and someone bet 40 dollars; instead of showing $40 dollars on the table it would show 10BB's.

Does this exist? Is it even possible? It would be useful if you play across multiple limits and dont want to waste the extra time doing the math in your head. It may also take the fear out of playing at the higher stakes and reinforce poker strategy rather than thinking about the money. And it would help you keep your play consistent across limits.

Naismith · 09-28-2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by skeetm0n

Is there such a thing as making money bets on a poker site look like BB's instead? For example if i was playing 400NL and someone bet 40 dollars; instead of showing $40 dollars on the table it would show 10BB's.

Does this exist? Is it even possible? It would be useful if you play across multiple limits and dont want to waste the extra time doing the math in your head. It may also take the fear out of playing at the higher stakes and reinforce poker strategy rather than thinking about the money. And it would help you keep your play consistent across limits.

I once asked FTP to add this option as a feature and they said they had no plans to. I would also love it if this was possible.

jukofyork · 09-28-2009, 07:45 PM

See here for recent post on this.

Juk

skeetm0n · 09-28-2009, 07:50 PM

i would also be quite interested in such software. i think the difficult part would be turning the betting functions into functions of BB instead of dollars. otherwise, you'd see a XXXbb pot and you'd end up having to do even more calculations to figure out how many dollars you want to bet into it.