haaa sorry for your db

Well, could you please send me one HH file to support@cartridgesoftware.com to see what's going wrong here? Because I've just tried and it didn't re-import anything.

Sure. I do have some Badugi SNG HHs mixed in, but those get read as 0 hands, properly. I will just zip up the entire group of files.

Ok I fixed the bugs and released a new beta 6 without the annoying problems mentioned.

Download

Also changing decks now works like a charm. Here's the replayer in action with PartyPoker's 4 color deck:

Is it possible for me to mod any of the other replayer graphics?

*I would also love to see a 'Hands' Tab eventually, to be able to sort/review all hands, by starting and/or final hand rank.

I just download and tried to "run" the installation for the first time. It started popping up an idiot box with "cannot open file xxxxx.dll and did it on many files. I tried "retry" and that did nothing. I tried "ignore" and it would start up again and it seemed the next file it tried to open did the same thing.

I am running Vista. Should I have set the exe file to "run as administrator"?

Running Vista on Gateway, Pentium Dual Processor, 1 gig mem plus dedicated 2 gig usb mem. Thanks, looking forward to the addition of the HUD.

ADR

No, sorry, everything is hardcoded. In fact the positions of the seats and many other things are internal dictionnaries, but they could also be loaded from a configuration file allowing people to mod the window. It would be quite a boring job to do though, as many parameters have to be taken into account (game replayed, size of the user panel, positions, etc. etc.)

I think this kind of tab would be horrible when you reach a couple of thousand hands, but ok, I'll try to fill a db with 100k hands and see how it goes. I hope your PC is equipped with a lot of ram

I'm not running Vista so I don't really know. What's the DLL name exactly? Can you run PT3/HEM on your box? Yep, try to run it as administrator. I need to free up some memory in the meantime and try to run the program on a virtual machine to see how it reacts with Vista. Thank you for your encouragements.

Okay, when I "ran as administrator" that opened and installed it fine. Now... the dummy part of me. I do not use PT, so it is now asking me to set up "posgreSQL", to which I say..." huh" and while I've seen that used in other posts, have no idea how to do that. I'll do a search here on other 2+2 forums and see if they can inform this illiterate how or what "postgreSQL" is...

I set up postgreSQL. That works fine. PH is all installed. I imported and created a database on PH. It imported 9924 hands from PS successfully, but...

Nothing is showing up?? It recognizes the database is there. On the right hand portion of the screen it is showing individual players. When I click on them, nothing. On the left hand portion, it shows no sessions under any of the tabs and while I watched it import (like watching grass grow), it did import some of all the four games PH tracks. But, none of the tabs are showing any session.

I'm missing something obvious I know. Like "plug it in the wall socket" the obvious is sometimes out of mind. What next to get the sessions to show up.

ADR

Everything says "0 hands imported from..."
All the files are listed, but they all say the same thing. And the summary is blank. Where did I screw up this time?

Have you used HM's Hands tab? It is pre-filtered for the last 100 hands. It can also be filtered more/less precisely, once you get on the tab, using the built in filters. HM also has the 'Reports - Holecards' report, so you can get more detail about starting hands in general. I was just thinking about session/hand review for Badugi, to find what starting hands I am losing the most with (such as 2 card draws and weak pat hands).

I'm sorry if the program is not as user friendly as you would expect, however I'm glad it's working fine on vista when you run it as admin.

When you're connected to a database, it shows up on the title of the window:

(here db named BLADB)

Then when you click on a player,


It shows up on the window title as well:


Do you have this behavior?

Could you please send me any of the file that doesn't want to import (support@cartridgesoftware.com)

There's a starting hand tab in Hold'Em because it's easy to track starting hands: there are only a few of them. For Five Card Draw and Badugi, it's much more complicated. What's the best way in your opinion to somehow group starting hands in Badugi?
The pre-filtered hand tab seems like a good idea

I hadnt put much thought into it, to think about the intricacies of Badugi tracking compared to hold em. Hopefully some more Badugi players will start using your tracker, and give some input also.

That part seems to work fine.

No, mine doesn't look like that. However, the database shows in the title bar, as well as the player's name, but no data in the summary or other tabs. I'll try and upload a pic to show what I see. I always have trouble uploading pics into a message, so here's the link to the screen shot I took. Hope that helps

http://************/66xq4t

The dummy [ME] just figured out what I was doing wrong, at least for my stats. I had not clicked on the "me" on the right tab above player's names. I didn't realize how the various tabs worked. My learning curve is more like a straight line with a downward slope.

Now that I had it all working, and the only thing wrong is my stats .... sigh, but I'm working on that.

I would like to see the HUD in the future AND I wish there was a tab for Omaha08 (hi/lo)

Otherwise, it seems very nice, very simple for my level of play and for what I need. Thanks, will keep you updated on anything that acts quirky.

ADR

Cool program. I installed PH (on vista as admin), installed postgresql, imported some hands. Nothing showed up until I went to "view -> badugi" in the menu, and then stuff showed up, and it was nifty.

Now I have a very stupid question: why doesn't PS save *all* my hand histories? It has 3 of about 15 badugi sessions I've played in the last two weeks, even though I tell it to save everything...sorry, not trying to hijack your thread, I just want the software to find everything.

Just a thought regarding badugi starting hands (though I have only played 341 hands in my life): how about sorting them by what you keep going in the first draw? Although Ac2dKsKh and Ac2dKcKd currently would show up different predraw (A2K vs. A2), they would basically function the same if I draw to A2 in both cases. Maybe something like all 1-card hands, all 2-card hands, all 3-card hands, and predraw pat badugis (assuming you pat them) by top two cards; this makes about 400 or so groups (or my math is wrong)

PS saves all my hands fine. I am on XP. Do you have PokerStars set to always run as admin?? or have UAC turned off instead? You can send an email to support@stars and ask them to email you all your badugi hands ever played.

Since you got this to work for Badugi, have you put any thought into Triple Draw?

You know the hardest part about creating a program is actually distributing it. There are so many different computers, plus the people using your programs are not supposed to be techies. PokerTracker actually did a great job distributing PostgreSQL with their setup and preconfiguring a lot of stuff. I tip my hat to them

I don't think Omaha will be included in the near future, though. It would require a lot of work. The current plans are:
1. Improving Hold'Em support
2. Hud

It's a good idea but it would mean that hands you fold before the 1st draw wouldn't be displayed. Do you think grouping by hand strength (ie: Badugi/3card/2card) then by the highest card would be a good idea, ie:
Badugi: 432A
Badugi: 5xxx
Badugi: 6xxx
...
3-Card 32A
etc. Hum that would still generate a lot of different groups

About your HH problem: PokerStars sometimes clean up the HH folder. Set "keep hand history" to something like 9999 days.

It's not planned for the moment but including all the different draw games is something I want to do, ie Triple Draw has a much higher chance to be supported compared to say, Stud.

I tried running PS as admin, and it seems to be saving as we speak...hopefully this is permanent. Thanks fozzy! GL with PL badugi when they add it.

And thanks Tony again for making this. It's quite a bit better than the spreadsheet I currently use.

I couldnt keep up my spreadsheet after only a day or two of Badugi. Extremely glad he added Badugi support to this so quickly.

FYP

First question, is there a way to manually delete a hand history?

Assuming "no", I had a couple of corrupt HH's and just manually deleted them from my HH subdirectory. I wanted to create a new database. I created the new database and imported just fine. Now I want to delete the old db. I highlighted the old db, then clicked on "delete" and it did nothing. How do I get rid of the old db?

BTW, I did make the new db "active" before trying to delete the old one.

ADR

You can delete it thru Start > Programs > PGAdmin. Connect to the SQL server and then Right Click > Delete the old DB.

Wow it looks amazing. Much more readable than the existing decks

The delete button does nothing because... well... I haven't coded anything do delete the db
Sorry, I know that the db management is pretty poor atm (need export functions as well....)

However, you have a tool named pgAdmin III which was installed with PostgreSQL (check your startup menu) which can list your databases and delete them.

Great, I did find that. One thing I can't quite figure out still. When I click on "me" on the right tab area, I do not get my stats. However, if I click on my name in the player's list, it shows all my stats as a player. Is it supposed to work that way?