Saturday, May 30, 2009

Every bit of information is good information!

I have received more & more input about the program from different forums and I think this is great. This makes me believe that I could in-fact continue to add feature to the program according to request from opinion contributers! 

I have not yet decided how I should release a first alpha version of this software, but I think I'll have to do something like this! Release something but with some-kind of limitation, to no cost! One solution could be this, the software only works for lets say 15 minutes, after that  you have to restart it! Please comment on what you think could be a good solution.

Cheers!

Friday, May 29, 2009

How to use the Tendency software!

I'll soon post a new video that shows how to use this software and my thoughts around the concept. In all it's simplicity the colors and action numbers actually show a lot of information that might not be obvious, but in a very compact way. 

Cheers

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Tendency interface picture. Each player has their own color box. Each box consists of 4 rows that represent preflop/flop/turn/river. Topmost row is preflop. The numbers on each row is the sum of all actions on each street, so far in the game. An action is one of the following ones: folding/checking/calling/betting/raising. Lets say a player1 calls preflop, then some-other player raises behind him, if he decides to call this raise, then he has two actions so far on this street in this specific hand. The dashed lines represent, from left to rigth, 20/40/60/80 percent of the actions performed on each street. By looking at these lines one can quickly get a overview of how many hands a player raises vs folds, and so on. Then we have the last bit of information in the box, the colors. 
  • Blue = Folding
  • Gray = Checking
  • Pink = Calling
  • Green = Betting
  • Red = Raising
Simple & Intuitive, don't you think?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

New screencast link

Here is the new screencast with sound! Enjoy...

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stUk1WQ0FIR11cQ1tcXVNdUV5T

Screencast link!

Here is my first screencast! It isn't that useful because I could not enable audio so I could comment what's happening. But
my next goal is off course to be able to do that. What you can see here is how it looks like in action.

The colors has the following functions:
Blue: Number of times the player has folded on each street.
Gray: Number of times the player has checked on each street.
Pink: Number of times the player has called on each street.
green: Number of times the player has bet on each street.
red: Number of times the player has raised on each street.

cyan: Has not played att all on those streets yet.
I removed this first link, becuse of no sound.

Main Program Features

  • Support for holdem and omaha games.
  • Support for Windows and Mac computers.
  • Simple database support, two different computer can access the same database.
  • Simple and intuitive interface.

Video Post Coming Soon!

I'll be posting a screencast soon just to get people started. I'm working on it right now, but as I have not done this before it takes some time to produce something decent. One concern I  had was to not show names of the players when doing the screencast, but I solved solved this now. 

I'm not sure how people would react if I showed their names!? 

Saturday, May 23, 2009

New Kind of Poker Software!

Welcome to my poker software blog! My intension with this blog is to present a software that I have written and are actively using when playing poker. I thought it would be interesting to here what other people think of it and this might inspire me to develop it even further.

The main idea with this program is to track peoples playing tendency. What do I mean by that? Well this is my view on that and how my program is different compared to others! The way most programs today show your opponents playing behavior is by showing a lot of numbers. They show how loose a player is, how often they raise and so on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach, but I think one can actually represent this information in a better way.

One other thing with these number oriented programs is, that it is usually hard to apply these numbers to each individual street. What tendency does your opponent have preflop/flop/turn or river. I have addressed these issues in my program and thats what I'm going to write about next time. 

Cheers...