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Originally Posted by $Betpot$
If that's the case he might as well release the code so the community can maintain it till it's not possible any more.
He will not release or sell the code for free because:
-there are currenlty many commercial and not commercial cash game seating scripts requiring from the user to own tablescan turbo to be able to work,
only as a table opener tool.
Currenlty all seating scripts available except Hiroku, require from the user to buy TST to use it only as a table opener!
They configure tablescan turbo to don't do any table selection, to don't connect to HM2 and dont detect any fish etc,
but to just open all the tables it can find in the lobby, where the user has put filters for stakes and he has HIDE FULL TABLES option on
So TST opens all the tables on the lobby where a seat is available.
Then the seating script decides if there is a fish or not on the table marked with green color , and takes a Jesus seat on it if available
People who use seating scripts
continue buying tablescanturbo only for this purpose, and they don't care at all if it works for the purpose it was created (as a table selection tool) or not!
So the author does't have to update it to be able to sell it to seating script users, because the don't care about it's real table selection functionallity, they just need a tool to open the tables
-it is still working on pokerstars. We don't know the exact date when Pokerstars will disable table selection and he still can sell it to new pokerstars players who want to use it for next months while it is still availiable.
And I guess he will not update the code any more (if he does it will be a big positive surprise ) because:
Because the only remaining poker networks allowing table selection , after Pokerstars new rules take place next year, will be Ipoker and 888, all other big poker networks and rooms have disabled table selection.
Ipoker in 2016 has few tables on each stake and very few people want to use a tool like TST there.
The code of the new ipoker windows 8 client is completely new. He should rewrite all the code to support ipoker and that's not easy.
ANd the customer basis who could want to buy tablescan turbo for ipoker is very small and it doesn't worth the effort.
888 is cancelling their rakeback program at the end of the month, focusing to recreational players only, and replace the rakeback with missions. So we will not have many heavy volume cash grinders there any more. They try to be as much unfriedly to professional players as they can, and focus to recreational players.
Also it is very possible that after Pokerstars disable table selection next year, both Ipoker and 888 (the only remaining big poker networks allowing it) will follow and then no poker room will exist where somehting like TST could run
And there is something more:
Hiroku script , with a miimum subscription of 100$ per month, is currently the ultimate table selection tool for 100 NL and higher stakes and TST has not any chance to compete it. Hiroku uses a completely different technology than TST , so it can work on networks have prohibited TST, like MPN . Hiroku doesn't need TST to run!
So TST already has lost all the possible customers from 100NL and higher for ever, from Hiroku script. That's another reason that nobody would ever be interested working on TST commercially again. All other similar projects like Table Shark and Tablescanner are abandoned for similar reasons
Of course I would like to have TST updated also, but on this post and on my previous post above, I just explain to the users wondering what is going to happen with TST, what har really happened, and that there is no hope or there is very little hope to see any update again, or to get the code for free, or to see it sold to another company or anything else. It looks like that he will continue to make money selling TST to anybody want to use it just as a table opener for the next years, and he will not support any more the full functionallity TST was designed for.
Last edited by fountouris; 03-11-2016 at 02:52 PM.