When I am reraising postflop I usually am paying a lot of attention to that table and size the bet manually.

For a hotkey, generally I would recommend using Bet pot Percentage hotkeys on the Pot Betting tab. If your opponent bets a standard size (say between 65-85% of the pot) a 70% pot hotkey will generally raise very close to 3 times the bettors bet.

Other people might have more ideas for this situation.

Hope this helps,

Tarath

Sorry to report that I had to revert to the previous version after upgrading today. Pokerstars kept freezing whenever a new table popped up and any time I cascaded the windows and eventually it blue screened me twice! Ah well, the older version works like a dream still so not that big of a deal.

Wow this is bad news, I'd never imagined TableNinja could do anything like cause a blue screen. I'd been crossing my fingers that everything was just going to work smoothly for everyone cause things had been so quiet.

Would you mind emailing your log file and config file to support@alxsoftware, as well as telling me your exact OS?

I'm really sorry you had such major problems, we will definitely take a look at this. I'm glad 1.0.93.0 is working well for you at least.

Tarath

Hi,

I just downloaded your software and I like it very much.

But one important feature is missing which would make it perfect: Auto click "I am back" when timed out.

I'm glad you like the software.

This feature is going to be one of our top priorities for the next update.

Definitely let me know if theres any other features you'd like to see added.

Thanks,

Tarath

Do you roughly know the release date of the next update?

Well we just released the last one last night so probably not for a while

Its really way to early in the process for me to estimate right now.

Sorry,

Tarath

I didn't read through all 500+ posts on this software, so forgive me if this was addressed already but...

I am the paranoid type. I like the AutoHotKeys Scripts because anything that's being done is in clear text that can be read by the average person.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment... What stops this software from installing something malicious like a keylogger or other type of code that could retrieve passwords and such from our computer?

The necessity to run as an administrator under Vista has me slightly concerned as well. I read every word on your website and nothing seems to address any of these concerns ahead of time.

Thanks in advance for not taking these questions the wrong way. You have what looks like a good prduct here. Just doing my homework, that's all.

I fully respect all privacy concerns and believe that it's hard to be too paranoid, which means that any program you run requires some amount of trust. It certainly isn't wrong to be skeptical , but it may cause you to miss out on a great program.

This question has been asked before and I know it is a major concern to some people.

TableNinja has to run as administrator on Windows Vista to send mouse clicks and keyboard commands to Windows. Unless things have changed in the last few months, when you run most poker AHK scripts you are either running AHK as an administrator and thus running all scripts as an administrator, or compiling the script into an executable and running it as an administrator. (I no longer use AHK and am not an AHK expert but this is how things were when I used it before TableNinja if things are different now and someone wants to correct me feel free).

As far as whether we could be transmitting private data back to your server we very carefully outline all the internet connectivity TableNinja does here. http://tableninja.com/faq.php#How%20...he%20internet?

TableNinja only connects at startup or when you manually check the update/purchase window. We transmit far less data than a single hand history file (which you can easily verify with a program like zon-alarm).

Honestly I cannot 100% prove to you that TableNinja is safe, ultimately it is a matter of trust. You will have to make your own judgement as to whether you want to use TableNinja or not.

I can say that I have been an active member of the poker community for years, I am a respected coach on 2+2 and a professional player and I have a very good reputation. We also have hundreds of people using TableNinja and enjoying the program and I'm sure plenty of them would be happy to vouch for what a great program TableNinja is.

Ultimately we completely respect whatever decision you make, but I think you'll be missing out on a really great program if you don't give TableNinja a chance.

Tarath.

Can you add the ability to use hotkey combos of more than 2 keys (i.e. CTRL+ALT+P)? I like to use 3-key combos to avoid conflicts with the built-in hotkeys Stars uses.

I think this should work already. I just assigned <cntrl><alt>P to Fold and had no problems assigning or using the hotkey. You just need to make sure that two of the keys are modifier keys like control alt or shift (for example cntrl-p-x will not work but cntrl-alt-p will).

Let me know if this isn't working for you as that would be a bug.

Thanks,

Tarath

Thanks for the response.
From the link you posted:

I stumbled across this apparent "suggestion":
Although this might be a little extreme, I didn't see a reply. Are there any ways to release the code to an independent 3rd party that could certify it's contents?

I dunno.

Hey BigL.

Then everyone would instead be placing trust in the third party: several people might not trust them also.

I think that it was mentioned TN will eventually (after beta) not access the internet *at all* so I would then see releasing the source code as unimportant.

We do not plan on making the program open source for a variety of reasons. If you know of a 3rd party that would be willing to validate our source code I could consider it, if it were free, fast and from a reputible company who specializes in this service. I'm worried it would be very expensive/time consuming as we'd have to run every single update by the 3rd party which would slow down our release process. We've released 4 updates in 2 months so even waiting a week for people to review our code would slow our development drastically. This would mean less features and bug fixes for our existing user base. If the service were expensive we would also have to raise the price of the software. This would provide peace of mind for a few people at the expense of our loyal users.

Ultimately we recognize your concerns, and realize that using TableNinja is a choice. Well feel that our job is to focus on making TableNinja the very best it can be for those who chose to use it.

Thanks

Tarath

Hey man update looks great.

Only thing is, im running a borderline computer, XP1800 AMD 1gig ram etc etc, its old

This update is destroying my computer, it ran amazing before, no problems. Is there a reason that this one is taking up more CPU power?

It only seems to bog down when I have tables cascaded, even on CASCADE settings when i tile its fine.....

WILL

Hi,

after downloading and trying latest version TN has become a bit laggy.
tried with 4-12 tables at once, same lag on only 4 or doing 12.

Got 2.5 GB RAM so I dont think its because of my PC.

Also had two hands strangely folded in this mornings session, no "actionboxes" appeared at all, as if i prechecked fold or something, which i'm 99% sure i didnt.

The new updates were otherwise to my liking, and really like TN overall so far.

Qwik

My computer started lagging right after updating to this new version as well. It didn't even cross my mind that TableNinja could be the one causing it until I looked into this thread and saw other people with the same thing happening. Now that I think about it though I'm pretty sure TableNinja is the problem, as I was having no such problems before updating it. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 GHz and 4 GBs of RAM, btw.

I would try disabling frames when your stacked/cascaded. Right now we are doing our frames in a similar way to how your HUD wors and it is possible that we are sometimes fighting with your HUD when you're stacked/cascaded in away that might slow things down on older machines. We're working on this issue.

To confirm that this is what is happening you could try briefly running just TN and Stars and see if the lag improves when compared when your

Let me know if this helps,

Tarath

You guys both have seem to have machines that are quite fast so this is very odd. Can you open your performance monitor and check what % of the CPU TableNinja is taking? If it seems that TableNinja is actually using most of your CPU can you try briefly turning off your HUD just to see if that significantly changes TableNinja's CPU usage? If that doesn't work can you also try disabling the frames?

Can you also let me know what HUD you're running?
Also does stacking work better than cascading lag wise?

We know that over 90% of people are having no trouble with lag so there must be some common factor among those that are that could explain the problem and help us know exactly how to fix it.

I am not sure what TableNinja could be doing that could eat that much processing power. On my comp (which is quite new) it never uses more than 3 or 4% of the CPU so its definitely some kind of bug related to you're setup.

Let me know what the performance monitor shows, and we will keep looking into this on our end. I'm really sorry you guys are having issues.

Thanks guys,

Tarath

EDIT: Also can you guys double check that you have the correct Table Layout selected on the Setup Tab? It is possible that if you are cascading/stacking and have things set to NoOverlap, or have it set to the aero theme but are not using the Aero theme that something like this could happen.

Have the right table layout (hyper simple)
Dont even use a HUD
Have always had frames disabled (kinda annoying if you are stacking)
Will check tonight about CPU usage...

Not sure what else we can do, maybe those who are having the same problem can speak up so we can find the common link....

wiLL

not sure if this has been requested before, but i'd like an easy way to change seats at a table w/o leaving, turning off the auto-take seat, finding the table in the lobby, opening, etc.

how hard would it be to add 'switch seat' functionality to tn?

This is a really nice idea.

This has never been requested before and I've never thought about it or looked into it. My initial impression is that this might be quite hard as it would involve interacting with the list of tables in the lobby (which we have no way of being sure is still looking at the right type of tables).

I will think about this a bit more and brainstorm for easy ways to do this cause its definitely a great feature idea, but I am worried it would be quite hard.

Thanks for the great idea though, anytime someone gives us a brand new feature request I am always super excited,

Tarath

Maybe i'm being dumb, but how do I make it press wait for BB button?

I tried if for the first time tonight, fantastic software, and will definetely be using it in future. The only problem I encountered so far (and it's only a minor one) is that when I get moved tables during a tourney a new popup appears saying that if I leave now I will be check/folded.. yadayadayada. Any way to stop this?

Right now we do not detect the Wait for BB and press it for you, but you can use a hotkey to hit the button by using the "click by locations" hotkeys which are on the bottom right of the "Action Hotkeys" tab.

Added a feature that automatically looks for the Wait for BB button and then clicks it for you is something we definitely plan to add.

Hope this helps,

Tarath