With some new programming methods introduced in last version some people have this problem but it doesnt appear as something common and usual.

With that said, i will revert old methods with the new version soon that will handle the lag issue that new version causes for some users.

You can add me on skype and i will send you the patch for it because the official update will probably take some more days.

thanks for the fast reply, will fix it now

anyways the program looks awesome

i'm confused - when i open the program it says i'm running the unregistered version which will only work with $1.5 buyin sngs.

my only 2 options are 'register' or 'quit' - neither of which take me to the program where i can try it out on $1.5 buyin sngs?!

am i missing something?

Ty!

Sounds like Unregistered version was installed month ago or longer then that.
You can still register Free trial license which will allow you to use program on your stakes but will expire after some time if unpaid.

ok thanks, yeah i did install it a while ago.

After todays update i got the error message "Lost connection to MySQL server at reading initial communication packet, sytem error :0"

Edit: Nevermind restart cpu did the job.

This one was server side issue today and should be solved.

Just got new version, it seems to be stopping after 6 minutes into a session even though I set the time to 50 minutes. I'm pretty sure the new version of the software also crashed my Stars client once, I turned off aggressive registration in hopes that it wouldn't happen again but don't really care to risk it happening again.

I dont yet have anyone reporting Stars client crash after new release today but neither during Beta nor it happened to me on several machines being used to test. I can check more on this over teamview. Add me to skype:sharkystrator

About session_time - there is a bug that slipped, you can use session time - 0 for now until next patch.

in the program i thought i read that the trial is 3 days, but at paypal it says the trial is 7 days. can you confirm which is correct?

okay i'll turn on Agg. Registration and see if it replicates and if so we can do team view.

hi, i was wondering if people who have used sharky since the last update have noticed that simul sitting regs/not being able to sit a lobby is happening a lot more frequently than before?

if so, i think the new update is sort of negating the value/purpose of sharky, and would consider going back to the old method or making a change in some manner in the next update. the last couple days, especially at peak times, i've bumped into regs (who also didn't want to sit me) with the same frequency as when registering manually. i realize this has to do with the new 'aggro reg' feature, which i think is causing so many unwanted simul regs (with sharky users or other regs that insta-reg when it shows "2/2"??), but if i turn that off, i seem to seldom get a lobby, so both options/outcomes seem worse than before.

Every change thats done is done from the bigger perspective, not just one advantage or disadvantage.

Since the new version gets lobbies faster the risk to sit another person who does it same manually normally will be bigger.

With that said, there will be further adjustments to this but its definitely a needed change.

Hey man, great software, keep doing the good work.

Not sure if this is the best place to suggest a feature, but anyway...

Could you implement something like "Daily report"? Basically it would be the same as session reports, but it wouldn't reset every time you stop the program, it would just keep counting. Either for the day (use time from PC) or just have a manual reset button.

The reason for this is that I don't want to open HEM before the end of the day, possibly even longer, but want to keep track of how many games I've played over the day...

I know I can just pause the software, instead of stopping it, but I like it to auto-stop my mini-sessions after a set amount of time.

Regards from Serbia

I would love to see this happen. It would make it much easier to see how long and how many tournaments you have played without looking at results from hem/pokertracker.

Thanks Bjela

If you guys have any suggestion the best thing is to either pm me or put it up here.

Any suggestion will be considered at least, if demand makes sense to push it up the development queue it will eventually be there.

Pokerstars just had an update and now Sharky just scans through the lobbies but never sitting any tables. Anybody has the same problem?

I'm really surprised to see how poker players apparently only look at how quickly some investment pays off - it even seems to me like it just doesn't matter whether the price is actually justified or whether or not the seller would be considered trustworthy.

This software looks like a scam at first sight - and after reading this thread, well it's still shady at best. To be honest, I don't even think he has any bad intentions, he's just completely incompetent in terms of business.

The problem is however that we're not talking about peanuts here but some really decent money - and I don't think the benefit of doubt should be granted lightly when facing mid- to high 6-digits.

Recently, the EU Commission passed several lays to protect customers from shady businesses - this software is violating several of them. I'm not too familiar with US trade laws - but this is so extreme that there's a decent chance.

Basically

• You must clearly display the price of the product. Tricking the customer about this in combination with a subscription service could even be considered as fraud in Europe. Not displaying any price at all may even be a problem in the US or other countries. The price must be on the purchase / download page, not in some video of forum thread.
• When selling a subscription service, you must clearly say so. A product which requires payment after some time to continue functioning is considered a subscription service.
• You must clearly state which warranties you give / don't give with your software. 6 months warranty is the minimum is most European countries.
• You must provide contact details on your website. In the EU, this means a full address and phone number, though in poker world nobody would complain if you at least provided an email address.

Not displaying the price on your website means influencing your customers purchase decision - whether it's intentional or not. People may download your software without expecting it to be that expensive, then like it and eventually buy it when they wouldn't have done so if they knew the price. Doing this intentionally is fraud.

From the description of your software, it is also not obvious that you are selling a subscription service. I watched that husng.com video and a simple '/ 6 months' in a "select license" dialog is not enough. Yeah, you may just be completely incompetent - but scammers use the same trick to fool their victims. People simply don't expect that a software has to be re-purchased every 6 months.

Another interesting thing about the poker community is how prices work here.

There simply is no technical need to charge different prices for different buy-in levels, it is simply a way of squeezing the most money possible. A small stakes rebate like PokerTraker does it would be ok - but not charging multiple times the price.

Your business model simply shows that you're trying hard to do the very minimum work and while gaining the highest possible profit.

Minimum Work - as I said before, 6 months is generally the minimum legally required time where you need to provide support - and you kick your customers out right the next day.

Maximum Profit - for two reasons, a) you kick your customers out for no technical reason simply to make them re-purchase (you would have the maintain the product anyways for your new customers) and b) you charge a lot more money than required from "rich" customers, assuming they'll just simply pay.

This is just the most anti-customer-focused software development strategy that I've seen in a very long time.

One also has to thing about bug fixes and downtime here. In simple terms, if Stars changes things once a month and you need a week to fix it, then your product will be broken 25% the time. That's a lot.

Using these numbers, about 100 high-stakes customer would already net you some $10k per month - for a 10-hour/week job.

And which guarantee do we have that you won't double your prices after almost every reg has this tool ?

Since we're talking about some really serious money here, I'm also worried whether we really get the full 6 months of support - for instance, what happens if you sell 1000 licenses then in 2 months Stars changes something that you can't fix - can we trust you to refund everyone ? To even still have that money ? Some $100k+ is a very strong reason to just silently drop from the face of the earth ....

Yes, the price is not too much if you solely look at how fast it will pay off - but if you get away with this, then I'm afraid this will create a significant inflation of marked prices for poker software.

You're basically charging up to $1k/year for very little - if this model has any success, then what's stopping PokerTracker from charging some $10k for their product ?

Jack

Thanks for the update - works again!

Hello, after I hit start im getting following error:


Line 44656 (File"C:\Program Files\Sharkystrator\skarkystrator.exe"

Error:Subscripy used with non-Array Varible


Im playing on pokerstars fr. I read manual and everything is set as it should be.

re: jackoneill post

Prices have already doubled as on first page of this thread they are quoted for 1 year. Now the same price for 6 months.

Hi acc13, the best thing to do is contact me on skype:sharkystrator to check this.

Pokerstars.fr might have a different change but it doesnt sound as something that can not be easily detected/fixed.

Marko

Jack oneil is a moron and I agree with basically nothing he said. Half the things he quotes as illegal are definitely not. I would advise people to ignore the post completely.

Edit: no good counter argument from
Me cos on iPhone but will do later.

chadders, hes not worth of attention he craves for, best to report his trolling/nonsense to mods so they clean it instead giving him what he wants which is to contaminate thread.

That he is moron, i will fully agree though

I suggest you make the program not auto-update. That way, we can avoid updating pokerstars/sharky until there is a working version.

Playing at .eu, today sharky constantly regged me in 3 games instead of 2. Something probably wrong during the rematch popup.