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ShaunR United States. Feb 12 2008 22:31. Posts 604

Hey all, Been a while since I've updated.

December and January went well so i splurged on a new computer and 27" dell monitor and am thoroughly enjoying my new setup.

After setting up the new computer I didnt want to reinstall PT2 with all the new poker tracker type programs coming out, so I just installed the PT3 beta and imported all of my hands. The program is nice, but right now the only hud is that AHK script/hud thingie that one of the pt3 guys put out.

It took forever for me to get it to show up at all, and then when i did it seemed random on whether it would display any stats at all.

I'd been thinking about making my own HUD for a while now because I have a lot of ideas on automating the note taking and profiling of players (for example noticing patterns and bet sizing tells automatically and having this information available on the HUD).

I have a working prototype on a simple HUD right now. Here are some screenshots:

The stats shown are:

Label1: First 5 characters of name | # hands
Label2: VPIP / PFR / 3bet%
Label3: FlopAF/TurnAF/RiverAF

Oh, I know that having the players name on the top label is kind of pointless, but I did that so I could see the update rates when new players joined etc.

Right clicking on a label will bring up a little window with more stats, kind of like acehud.

If anyone wants to help me test it, or doesnt like the AHK hud or whatever, you can download it here:

http://conquest.teamgbu.com/shaun/PT3Hud.zip

You will need the .net framework 3.5 located here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

It should be very easy to use - Just unzip to a folder and run.

Other Notes:

Currently it only supports pokerstars.

If you are feeling adventurous you can modify the hud layout by editing the hudconfig.xml file after running the program once.

How to do that:

Look at the <Type> of hud configuration first, you will see <Type>PokerStars6Max</Type>, <Type>PokerStar9Max</Type>, <Type>PokerStars2Max</Type> sections.

Each of these have multiple <TableHudConfigurationLabel>. You can add or remove labels if you want, as well as modify the x,y coordinates, width, and <Formula>. The way the formula works is that it just replaces the special tags with values from the database. For example the second label has a formula of:

<Formula>$vpip | $pfr | $3bet</Formula> and will output like: 20 | 18 | 4

You can put any characters in here you want, it just does a straight replace on the data tags.

Note: Eventually I plan on making a layout manager to do this graphically.

Here are the data tags available:

$name - Players full name
$sname - First five letters of the players name (I added this cause some players had long name and i wanted to limit the real estate showing the name would take up)
$faf - flop AF
$taf - turn AF
$raf - river AF
$pfr - pre flop raise %
$vpip - vpip
$hands - number of hands on villain
$win - total amount of money won by vpppp
illain
$3bet - percent of time they 3bet
$f3bet - percent of time they fold to 3bet (i dont think this is accurate?)

Most of these should be accurate, but PT3 has a database that is a little more complicated than PT2, so some may be off a little or a lot. I do plan on adding more stats obviously, these were just the bare minimum that I wanted for testing. Adding new stats / data tags will be easy. I will probably need help from some smart people figuring out how to query for certain stats.

Overall you should find that the program operates very efficiently, it doesn't tax my cpu or memory at all - though if you have hundreds of thousands of hands it will probably chug (postgres will technically) retrieving your own stats, so if you have 100k+ hands, you probably want to use the "do not query my own stats" feature on the front.

Another note on update rates: It will update stats from the database for a player every 1 minute plus 1 minute for every 1000 hands you have on that player. So if you have 60k hands on a player(wow?) it will only update their stats once per hour. My reasoning for this is that they simply shouldn't change dramatically enough to warrant updating any faster.

I'll probably work on improving / maintaining this program as long as PT3 doesnt have a HUD release date announced, and then after that it will depend on how motivated I am to design and implement the automatic note taking functionality / indicators idea I mentioned

-Itz

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Last edit: 12/02/2008 22:34

mikyor United States. Feb 12 2008 23:09. Posts 590

does this only work with PT3?

Siro Australia. Feb 13 2008 00:23. Posts 1540

work on the note taking as a standalone, that would be popular shitttt

nullmind United States. Feb 13 2008 00:37. Posts 90

awesome I gonna give it a try tomorrow

Patience...

NerO United States. Feb 13 2008 00:44. Posts 2402

sweet ima be setting it up 2morro!!

ShaunR United States. Feb 13 2008 01:30. Posts 604

Only PT3 yea, there are better hud options for pt2 anyways, if you're cheap even gametime+ is fine (and free)

nullmind United States. Feb 13 2008 12:18. Posts 90

I'm using it right now and it's working really well except I wish you add one thing. Preferred seat capability. I am all confused now without it. Other than that, this is really nice and much better than akhhud.

Patience...

ShaunR United States. Feb 13 2008 14:55. Posts 604

Oh yea, that will be easy.

ShaunR United States. Feb 13 2008 18:01. Posts 604

Ok, I added a tab to set seat preferrence.

ShaunR United States. Feb 13 2008 19:29. Posts 604

I also updated the source code if anyone is paranoid (and unless you are familiar with who I am and my reputation, you're pretty neive if you aren't).

PT3HudSource.zip

So feel free to compile / modify it as you wish.

Last edit: 25/02/2008 02:03

Karma

Australia. Feb 13 2008 23:12. Posts 3538

very nice setup, what is the monitor next to the 27"? I'm looking to buy 2 monitors and I was thinking about having one big monitor and a small one on it's side like you've done. how useful do you think is is to have a monitor setup like that as opposed to dual 20"s or something like that

fish mentality

ShaunR United States. Feb 14 2008 08:20. Posts 604

It isn't all that much more useful for poker. Two 20" would be fine. Though I do like to pile my windows up on the main monitor, and keep the second for PT3 / webpages / main pokerstars lobby.

The setup I use is much better for both gaming and programming though, which is why I went for it.

Really if you want to spend some money on a new LCD I highly recommend going to at least a 24". It is hard to truely appreciate the extra room until you try it for a bit.

So a nice affordable setup is a 24" with a 17" rotatable (you will have to buy the 17" online probably, stores tend to not have rotatable LCDs smaller than 24".

Or

a 27-30" and 19" rotatable.

Main display is always 1900x1200 and secondary 1280x1024

k2o4 United States. Mar 27 2008 22:15. Posts 4803

I'm using HoldemManager now and I like their HUD a lot. I wish I could just go make my own HUD though, that's pretty sick ^^

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