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Yes please! Stars no focus steal very much so please.

in b4 suzzer's 30k post.

Cliffs plz? Is this a solution or a potential solution? FWIW, when stacking, new tables steal focus as many as 3 times for me. It is the single most tilt-inducing part of my day.

OK I read OP. Tell your friend I and many others would buy this the day it came out

It's a solution. I stack and new tables never steal focus for me at all.

Where do we go about buying this No Steal Focus program?

Will it work with TableNinja?

It hasn't been released to the public yet.

Yes, it'd work with anything. http://gnum.us/100table/vid.stream.html

If you look around the two minute mark, the No Steal Focus app is loaded. Keep an eye on the TableCounter. You'll notice the table number keeps going up as my registered tournaments keep loading, but I never lose focus.

yes, please release asap

There would be enormous interest in this.

focus stealing alone for SNGs is enough to generate massive interest I would think.

I'd be real surprised if claims of "AHK is slow" are of significant merit. Although I'll admit I have most often coded things with a preference towards easy and readable, without regard for speed unless it was a particularly cpu intensive task. Many things I imagine are trivial I imagine become too slow when scaled to 100+(!) tables. Personally I'm paranoid enough to happily pay for a computer twice as fast to have code I can read in many cases lol.

Yup, agreed.

Cant believe there havent been more posts of interest for this.

Probably not a lot of SNG players follow the software forum. Trust me, it would sell like hotcakes.

Well they linked it from the thread where everyone is bitching about the focus-stealing issue.

For what it's worth I've been playing poker for a living exclusively for about a year now, and played to supplement income in between and during jobs since around 2005. When it comes to playing SNGs on Stars this setup is unmatched in my experiences.

I used to experience very real tilt issues that resulted from simple things like tables opening over a table requiring immediate action, and the annoyance of shifting back to that table, by whatever method. Now the tables are seen for less than a second before being buried into the stack of active tables, no interruptions in actions already made from the controller while another table is in the midst of opening.

Being able to register games, control the flow of gameplay at each table, control which active table is dealt with in which order, because let's face it sometimes a timebank usage is needed or just makes sense.

Much like the OP I've used a ton of existing tools and continue to use a variety of tools for tracking and so on, but as far as comfortable playing standards on PokerStars are concerned, this has taken me to another level. Last year I obtained Supernova for the first time after starting to play full time around March of last year. I was blessed with meeting HAY_GUYS and Gnum some time before this and blessed further in being able to try HG's software once I decided to aggressively pursue playing for a living.

I've already locked in Supernova for 2010 and plan on putting in heavy volume during the month of May, and it would cause me a lot more hardship to do it without these tools. I know that doesn't help those of you asking where to get the suite now, but if enough people are interested in the product I'm sure he'll go through the motions required to take this public.

did you release it yet?

I'm extremely interested in these tools and will pay whatever unless Stars changes the focus behaviors in the next update...

how u up controller of xbox ? ihave wirless controller but not understand how do it...can u help ?

no derailments.....

whats the update on the release???

Hi everyone, thanks for posting in this thread. It looks like Gnum generated enough interest in my software and has really been pushing me to sell it publicly, so I'll give it a go.

I thought it would be a good idea to post some more information about all of this and announce the plans for a release. The great news is that code is stable and has seen plenty of use. I wrote Hjälper back in February, 2009, and have made very few changes to it since then. SharkScope says I've played nearly 38k sngs since then; Gnum's had it for almost a year and cranked out over 10k games with it; JechtSphere's had it for a little less than that and has tested it with over 26k games. There are a couple other guys out there who have used it for thousands of additional games, too, but I won't call them out by name (but they are welcome to post).

I could ship it as is, but I'd like to polish it up a bit before releasing it publicly. I'm going to aim for having a private beta ready to go next Saturday (15th) and if all goes well, go public with it a week later (22nd).

In case it wasn't clear from the OP, this software only works with Xbox 360 controllers. There are several reasons for this: first, it's a lot easier to program software using a gamepad when you can use Microsoft's XNA framework (which happens to only support Xbox 360 controllers...imagine that!); secondly, the Xbox 360 controller is nice (imo), cheap ($30 from Amazon.com), and ubiquitous; thirdly, supporting software is far easier when you have tight control over the hardware (think how Apple does things).

Paranoia is understandable when lots of money is involved. I'm open to the idea of letting a trusted third party review the code or the possibility of selling source code licenses (the terms would not allow selling derivative copies, of course).

I think a lot of you have firewalls that prevent outgoing connections from unknown programs and monitoring a session with Wireshark would show any outgoing connections. Hjälper won't make any network connections and without any network connections, there's not much it could do that's malicious.

I use a Belkin Nostromo gamepad. Does this mean I won't be able to use the no focus steal? What does the controller have to do with that part of it anyway? Can I just plug in a Xbox controller to run the no focus steal and continue to use my gamepad for my raising/folding, etc? I don't want to switch from my Nostromo.

i think the part that most of us or at least me are/is interested on is the no focus steal part.... do i need a xbox controller set up for it to work??

Sounds like there is 5 softwares, I expect it's only the "halper" that needs the xbox controller, and the others run jut fine without it.

I have my own hotkey solution mapped to my logitech controller, also not really interested in changing anything there, I just want the focus stealing solution. Is this all being bundled together as a suite?

I already own tableninja so sorry but I'm not so interested in having to buy additional hardware and a license for another stars tools suite just to get the focus thing cleared up.

Sigh @ not working with a mouse.

If this would work for a mouse, I think you'd get a huge demand for it.