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07-26-2008 , 02:22 AM

doubleplus

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Hi,

I'm buying back in after being gone for a couple years, but I'd like to use my laptop from time to time. The problem is, it runs Ubuntu Linux. I doubt that any of the major sites overtly support Linux (?), but does anyone have any experience playing on any of them in Wine? Any tutorials? Is there ever a problem with the sites detecting a layer and assuming the player is cheating (as happened in WoW a couple years ago)?

Thanks,
dp

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07-26-2008 , 04:54 AM

Bobo Fett

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This sounds like a good candidate for the Software forum.

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07-26-2008 , 08:03 AM

Eratosthenes

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Originally Posted by doubleplus

I doubt that any of the major sites overtly support Linux (?), but does anyone have any experience playing on any of them in Wine? Any tutorials? Is there ever a problem with the sites detecting a layer and assuming the player is cheating (as happened in WoW a couple years ago)?
dp

AFAIK there is no site that directly supports Linux. PokerStars and Full Tilt both work fine under wine. WPX seems to work, but I have only played a few play money hands.

The wine application database is your friend. There are how-tos there and some helpful people when you get in trouble. Stars and Tilt do not seem to have security worries about wine users. A Stars' technical guy has made a couple of helpful suggestions on the Stars' appdb page.

PokerStove also works nicely with wine.

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07-26-2008 , 09:47 AM

Hood

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There are a few with linux specific support, and lots more that are browser-based (crypto, ongame, party), so can be used on ubuntu if you have flash-non-free pack installed.

Finally as Eratosthenes says, there's Wine, I have no experience with this, but I known there are some "silver" ratings for some of the bigger rooms.

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07-26-2008 , 11:09 AM

daedal

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Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 187

The Entraction/B2B network (pretty good traffic) is a java application but the network makes no mention of linux being supported, but looking at the install folder the client.exe of the application is just an executable that issues a java command. So you can run the client in linux. It works perfect and actually seems faster than on windows when multitabling.
To run you need to go into the install directory and run the command

java -cp pokerclient.jar:resources.jar:updater.jar:ext-resources.jar -DUPDATE=true -DCHECK=true ui.PokerClientApp

Anyone know of a native linux hud that reads PT db's?

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07-26-2008 , 11:20 AM

_dave_

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PokerStars will work perfectly under wine, and PT3 will too (almost). Of course run the postgresql server native on the Linux.

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Anyone know of a native linux hud that reads PT db's?

I don't think there is a native Linux HUD as yet, but AHK-HUD *should* work perfectly under WINE. It is possible the PT3 HUD will work too, the rest of the program does.

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07-26-2008 , 11:30 AM

daedal

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Ya I've gotten PT2+3 to work with wine along with pahud and the PT3 hud all working well when running poker clients in wine.

The problem though is that when I play entraction using the java command mentioned above it is run on the native linux java install, and wine as far as I know cant interact with X, so pahud and PT3 hud under wine cant find (isn't aware) of the linux java clients windows and wont work, so I think a native hud is the only solution.

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07-26-2008 , 12:11 PM

_dave_

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not that I've tried it - but is it possible to install the windows jvm to wine and run it that way?

Also, PT3 does not yet have entraction support, so until it does only worth trying PT2+PAHUD

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07-26-2008 , 01:12 PM

daedal

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I've tried that too with a few different wine configs but the client is very buggy under wine. For the moment I'll just dual boot. Regarding PT3, I wrote a perl script to convert entraction hh's to stars format and PT3 hud is picking up the tables nicely under windows. I'll release it once I've the code cleaned up.

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