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July 23, 2005
PT and PokerAce
Since I hadn't been playing online for a couple months I didn't notice until recently that Poker Tracker finally supports PostgreSQL databases in addition to the standard (terrible) Microsoft Access version. Unless you play a lot of hands or data mine you may not care, but if you do either then definitely upgrade. It's free, fast, and easy to do and will greatly speed up Poker Tracker. Instructions can be found in the Poker Tracker client (provided you have the latest patch) or here.
I'm glad PT finally made the switch. Data mining had grown my database to a point where it just wouldn’t work anymore. I couldn’t import new hands and it was breaking all the time. I went through all the hassle of exporting all of the hands I had collected and then importing them into separate databases, one for each limit. That worked for a while but then individual databases grew too big and I pretty much just gave up. Now I can roll them all into one giant DB and just mine straight into that one. I definitely should be able to learn something from having millions of hands stored in a database, and I have a few theories that I think I can prove given enough hands.
The only bad thing about the new update is that if you use it you are limited to using the new PokerAce HUD, as it is the only program of its ilk that supports the PostgreSQL databases. I think someone told me the latest version of GT+ does as well, but I haven’t confirmed that because Poker Ace is way better than Gametime+ or Playerview anyway and I've switched to using it. Still I would think the other two don't support PostgreSQL now they will in the near future.
PokerAce is fairly similar to Playerview, but it isn't as buggy and doesn't crash all of the time. I had a lot of troubles with PV's layout manager (every time I opened it PV would mess up my saved layout) and have none with PokerAce. It automatically detects tables and refreshes quite often, both of which are huge problems with GameTime+.
The best feature though is that it automatically shows you hands people showed down that didn’t get rolled over. Before when some monkey called you on the river and you won you had to fish through the hand history file to see what junk they were holding, which could be a pain when multi-tabling. PokerAce just pops it right up on the screen as a couple of little images of cards. They even have four color deck images available, which is a very nice touch. I discovered that by accident. I was going to take their image files and photoshop them over to match Party's 4 color deck when I discovered the 4 color images were already sitting in PokerAce's images directory.
So anyway if you are a PT power user get the new PostgreSQL patch and get PokerAce. They should pay me for this.
Posted by themaroon at July 23, 2005 8:09 AM
Comments
Your was the first blog I read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.It gave me a lot more confidence in my game.( even though I'm probably still a chump)Now I've got my own blog I was wondering if you'd be kind enough to swap links.
Littleacornpoker.blogspot.com
Either way all the best at the tables.
Regards,
Little Acornman
Posted by: Little Acornman at July 23, 2005 2:50 PM
Wow, imagine my surprise to be reading my daily blogs and come across a link to my application.
Just wanted to leave a message saying thanks for the plug!
PokerAce
Posted by: PokerAce at July 24, 2005 2:29 AM