when are you going to add positional stats ?

They're working in my in-house version now. It's a huge set of changes with a completely rewritten system for configuring how the stats are displayed. In addition to being able to specify which stats are displayed, you will be able to:

• have more than one stat block per player, to maximize use of space
• for each stat, specify exactly which stats will pop up when you hover over the stat
• break virtually any stat down by position and/or round of play (if it makes sense to do so)
• filter stats by position and/or round of play (no need to create a different version of a stat for each round, just check the rounds you want when configuring the display of the stat)
• choose font style, size, etc.
• option to choose transparent backgrounds and/or opacity

All of it basically works, I just need to polish some rough edges and test, test, test. I'm aiming for two to three weeks. I'm pretty excited about all the new features!

While i have your ear i have another question. Is there anyway to move the hud boxes around? I ask because the people siting on the left and rigght edges of the table are missing half their stats. Due to the boxes being cut off.

Oh yea i know hovering over a players stat box is suppose to make the number of hands i have on them pop up but it never works for me.

It's not possible in the current version. In the next version, you'll be able to configure almost anything imaginable about those boxes. :-)

The hovering code has been completely rewritten for the next version, so hopefully it will also solve that problem.

Same here i use vista 64bit, does it work on that OS?

No 64-bit support yet, I'm afraid. Parts of it may work, but I can't make any guarantees.

I've just uploaded the next beta, Poker Sleuth 1.9.0.0. Download link

1.9 introduces many new features:

• Most stats are broken down by position and/or round of play.
• Hovering over a stat pops up additional related statistics.
• Lots of bugs are fixed.
• The stat boxes in the HUD can now be dragged on all sites.
• The stat boxes can be right-clicked to bring up a context-menu.
• You can load and save HUD layouts. You can set up different layouts with different stats for different kinds of games.
• The HUD is now ridiculously customizable: everything is configurable! Change what stats are displayed, how they're broken down, what streets are included, etc. Or cosmetic things, such as colors, fonts, borders, etc.

Due to adding new statistics (and breaking down existing statistics by street and position), Poker Sleuth 1.9 will re-parse your hand history files. This is planned to be the last time re-parsing will be required before the final 2.0 release.

Because so much has changed since the last beta, there's a greater chance you may run into problems with this release. If necessary, you can always downgrade to the previous beta (1.3.0.1608). Download link

Great. Can we also assign colors to ranges of values for a partic stat? eg...

<30% = red
31-49% = yellow
50+% = green

Not yet. I'll try to add that sometime this week.

Does it work with 64bit now.....also, what does this program have that Hem doesn't?

ok just got the newest vrsion and i'm running into a couple problems. First no stats are showing up for anyone. Second how do i add hud stats in the new version? Before it was as simple as clicking on available stats and draging them into used stats

ok got the stats to show up after restarting the program a ssecond time

ok i hate to be such a bother but what does this stat mean? vpip33+28. I assume it means villains vpip is 33 percent but what the heck is the +28 all about ?

It means that that you only have a small number of hands worth of data on that opponent, so their true VPIP is 33 plus-or-minus 28 (or between 5 and 61). As you gather more data on an opponent, the range will shrink and converge on their true VPIP.

Basically, you don't have to look at the number-of-hands to interpret how accurate the statistics are, because Poker Sleuth incorporates the number-of-hands into the statistics, and it keeps track of how many hands mattered for that particular statistic.

If you hover over their VPIP range, a popup will appear displaying how many hands they have Voluntarily Put money In the Pot, out of how many opportunities to do so, as well as the raw mean.

If you'd like to change how it's displays, in the Options go to Stat Groups tab and click on the Defaults button in the lower-right corner. Playing with the settings under "Representation" will change how the stats are displayed. You can change it to do display the range as 5–61 instead of 33±28 or you can even have it just display the raw mean like other software.

In the Options, click on Stat Groups, select the Stat Group called "default", then click Edit button. A new window will pop up. Click on the block of stats in the middle, then click on "Edit statistics" (on the lower-right of the window, in blue underlined text).

If you want to change what appears in a pop-up, do the same thing but select the appropriate pop-up instead of "default".

No 64-bit yet. I need to get 2.0 out the door first. Poker Sleuth 2.1 will have 64-bit support.

I don't use HEM so I can't give you a head-to-head comparison (and I wouldn't want to risk unintentionally misrepresent HEM's features in any case), but here are some of Poker Sleuth's features:

• Integrated equity calculator, like faster than Poker Stove, supporting weighted ranges like Hold'em Ranger, and showing the equity on all streets at once
• During hand-review, one-click to load the hand into the equity calculator
• Tracks the number of hands for each stat and automatically computes a credible interval for each stat
• Background parsing so you don't have to wait for a gigantic import before using the software.
• Program your own stats (and not by writing SQL to make combinations of existing stats)
• Built-in hand converter for posting to forums
• Small footprint; doesn't need PostgreSQL
• Set up different layouts for different situations and switch between them (e.g., if you want different stats displayed for tournaments and cash games).

sounds interesting will give it a try, when you have 64bit available.

ok i think i have it figured out but all the stats say 0/0 instances. Even when i look under my own hud stats it says that. This seems strange cause i'm fairly certain i have played a few hands. Maybe i'm misunderstanding what the hud means by 0 instances?

Your understanding is correct. It sounds like Poker Sleuth cannot find or cannot parse your hand histories. Which poker site where you playing and what kind of game (cash or tournament; limit, PL, or NL)?

If you go to the Errors tab in the Options window, Poker Sleuth will list any hands that it couldn't parse. If you see a long list there, that is most likely the problem. You can use the Errors tab to submit a sample of hand histories so I can examine them and improve Poker Sleuth's parser.

If that's not the problem... if you click on the Directories tab in the Options, do you see the appropriate directory for the poker site? If so, in the Files tab, do you see the appropriate hand history files?

Thanks for the feedback!

i was playing at ub. the strange thing is the hands are being recorded in pokership. Example i have over 2k hands on a player named attest if i look him up in pokership. Yet my hud says i have 0 hands on him. I just sent you some error files

Actually i'm not sure if ps has been recording the hands since the update. They could just be hands that were already there since before the update. Ok i'm playing a session right now and the file is showing up but it still says i have 0 hands on everyone. It even says i have 0 hands on myself.

Thanks for the hand history samples. I've fixed some UB parsing problems and uploaded Poker Sleuth 1.9.0.19, which should work a lot better for you. Let me know how it goes.

Happy Holidays!

I still have 1.9.0.1. Could you please post a link to 1.0.19. Foe some reason my copy is not finding the latest update.

ok finally got the latest update but it didn't help anything. All the hud windows still say 0 instances.

Thanks for letting me know. After a little more experimenting, I was able to reproduce and fix the problem in Poker Sleuth 1.9.0.35. Sorry for not getting it quite right the first time.

The latest beta is always available via this link.

Thanks again for the feedback!