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Originally Posted by ChazDazzle
We are working on a way to grab the player names before the hand starts, and I've been told we have had some preliminary success with that. No idea when it'll be ready, but we've definitely broken ground.
There are a few 'exotic' networks we don't have support for (skypoker and Yatahay spring to mind). Our PKR support is also pretty thin. Did you have any others in mind?
At this very moment I mean exclusively Instadeal network (skins: Buzz Poker (former Pokertube Speed), Terminal Poker). It has a big
support thread on 2+2 so a few forummates might get interested, though the traffic is low. Sorry for my late reply, the reason is that I've downloaded and tested the soft only today and have got only a few HHs from freerolls so far.
The network focuses on fastfold (Zoom-like) 5-max NLHE/PLO cash games (with FTP-like fixed seating). One can play both in a browser and using a downloadable client which is almost identical but faster. Their T&C say nothing about suspicious software (even bots?!), and anything that's not prohibited is allowed!
Its minor drawback is that HHs are not automatically saved locally. The client keeps the last 10 finished HHs which can be viewed in a special window and copypasted from there. Like on Stars, a HH appears only when the hand ends (I guess it's stored on their server and can hardly be accessed before) and in full format, even if Hero fastfolded. The HH format is neat and consistent Stars-like plain text. Unlike Stars, it's written who has the button. So, to begin with, an AHK script should be coded that does all that mouseclicking and Ctrl+A/C/V to save HHs locally. To this end, I'll struggle to learn AHK in the nearest future
This trick will succeed only for the PC client because on the Firefox plugin Ctrl+A turns the screen grey like in smog and hardly anything is seen
The soft can be seen in 'Challenge Bear Night' videos on pokertube.com e.g.
this one where DaBeear watches the HH window at 10:57; HH #2 there gives a good example of their HH format, only the last line 'Board [Qd 2c 9h 8c 4s]' can't be seen. (Such a line appears only if the flop was dealt. Anyway I'll donate cash HHs when I have them as there are other nuances, e.g. lines like 'Uncalled bet (<amount>) returned to <alias>'.)
A 'good' thing about this network is that higher than .02/.05 player pool sizes seldom exceed a dozen. So I'd be happy to design a HUD that just lists the last 10 or so players detected in recent HHs of the current pool (or 30 players, with stacks of 10 boxes each 'turned over' by a hotkey), without matching statboxes with seats. Such a HUD wouldn't require screen scraping but would be of limited use as in tournaments player pools are much bigger.
Any ideas/suggestions?