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Originally Posted by pasita
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Originally Posted by PokerTracker
PokerTracker has no way to determine where the hero is seated when you have a preferred seat defined in the poker client unless you set your import preferences to match the correct seat. This is also an issue with all of PokerTracker's competitors, including HEM. If we cannot detect where there hero is seated, then it can in fact be quite chaotic - hence why we include the preferred seating preferences.
If you're not willing to find out Hero's seat from the game window, how about adding a "rotate hud" or "btw hero sits here now" option per table? I sometimes wish to switch seat in some table due to tables overlapping. Or there's a site where I can't set a preferred seat (so the option is not also in PT -at least PT3) but I can use "sit here" in the table. Or could if it didn't mess up the HUD.
For those who are not aware, when the hero sits in seat #1 then the poker client hand history shows you as sitting in seat 1. if instead you define a preferred seat in your poker client to be seat #3, then you will be visually seated at seat 3 while the hand history provided by the poker client still shows that you are still seated in seat #1. When the preferred seat preference is entered in PokerTracker as a preference, then we can relocate the hud positioning to match the hero correctly with the positioning on the screen. Without this information, we cannot properly reposition the hero.
The two options we support:
1) Sit in any seat without defining a preference. The HUD will properly match the seating choice.
2) Pre-define a preferred seat preference, and always sit in the same seat
We do not support a hybrid of the two situations listed above, this means you can not change your seat in-game by using your poker client's "sit me here" function. As described above, we cannot reposition the HUD without knowing where the hero is on the table in relation to the hero's positioning in the hand history therefore this cannot be done on a table by table basis - it must be done site-wide.
The game window suggestion you posted above is unfortunately not a viable solution. move a table... stack tables... overlap tables and the solution breaks - as we have explained earlier in this thread we do not want to introduce any features that could potentially interrupt a playing session, the risk does not equal the reward. PokerTracker only relies on hand histories to place the hero at the table, because that is the only accurate method available on all networks that we support in our many years of HUD development experience. And as I noted above, our solution has been used by all of our competitors as well.
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Originally Posted by dbabo
this sounds like a real good idea.
It sounds like a good idea until you understand the mechanics of how HUD positioning works, but it quickly becomes obvious that it would be a support nightmare with the potential to interfere with the playing experience once you learn how the system works. We NEVER want to interfere with anyones game! That is why this idea will not be implemented, the best solution is to stick with one of the two options listed above because they both work flawlessly.
BTW, this whole issue would be solved if poker rooms just added a "Hero seated in # X" line of text in the hand history... but none of the sites do this. We have asked quite a few to do this, but to date there has been no response.
I hope this helps explain how the HUD seating system works and why we use the methods that we do, let me know if you have any other questions!
- TT
Last edited by PokerTracker; 12-29-2011 at 01:41 PM.