Beta 30 Released

[Josh]

Added:

Setup Wizard
New Backup & Restore
Omaha (limited to PokerStars, Party Poker, Full Tilt and iPoker)
Mac OS X Release

Changed:

Usability: Numerous improvements (sanity checks, keyboard shortcuts, etc)

Fixed:

MicroGaming: Importing of tournament hands
FullTilt: Memory grabber fixes
FullTilt: Tournament import issue where satellite flag was being cleared when hero had an addon
PokerStars: AEST timezone support
PokerStars: Unknown target tournament importing
PokerStars: Rebuys and addons support
PokerStars: DST adjustments
PokerStars: Importing FPP rebuys
Party: NL tables being 9 max and not 10 max (except for $30 NL)
Bodog: Support for HU tables
Bodog: Problems with playing multiple SNGs in a row
Bodog: Limit importing as $1.00 NL instead of $1 NL
Cereus: Tournaments all being marked as SNGs
Boss: Player names not importing correctly
iPoker: Rewritten hand history files
Cake: Importing tournament finishing information
Cake: Importing money issues
Import: Uncalled hands marked as having showdown
Import: Email imports freezing
Import: All-in flags that were causing problems with the EV graph
Import: Support for tournament bounties
Hud: Negative number decimal places
Hud: Players sitting out affecting player ranges
Database: Non-English locales
Custom Stat: Exporting stat based on variables not exporting columns used by variables
TableTracker: Full Tilt and iPoker table opening

This release brings about some major changes. Please keep in mind that these are all pretty big changes, and we fully expect some problems to be uncovered. Here are some details regarding each one:

Setup Wizard

The Setup Wizard is part of our dedication to making PT3 as user friendly as possible. New users (and existing users starting with a new site) can now use the Setup Wizard to guide them through the configuration of PT3 and the poker sites, making it quite easy and painless to get up and running with PT3.

New Backup & Restore

The new backup and restore functionality lets you backup all your settings (layouts, reports, stats, notes, buddies, etc) along with your databases. You can backup everything into a single zip file. This will be very handy for those of you going from the PC version to the Mac version!

Omaha

This beta includes the introduction to the Omaha support. Please keep in mind while testing that functionality is not yet complete. Hands import correctly and reports display the information, but you'll find some things missing. Auto-Rate does not work for Omaha at this point. Only hands from PokerStars, Party, Full Tilt and iPoker import. TableTracker does not search Omaha tables. We'll be adding more sites and functionality in the coming weeks. The Omaha beta is freely available to all owners of the Holdem version and to all trial users. For those of you who do not own PT3 but have an expired trial, Omaha will be getting its own trial separate from the Holdem one soon, so please be patient.

Mac OS X Release

All you Mac fans will soon be able to forget about running a separate Windows computer or VM, because PT3 now has a native Mac OS X client. PT3 for the Mac will import all your Windows hand histories, but will only auto-import for the native PokerStars, Full Tilt and OnGame clients (no Hud on OnGame just yet).


Again, I want to reiterate: This is a beta version and these are all huge changes. There's a very good probability that there will be bugs. If you aren't willing to deal with bugs and help us locate and fix them, please wait until the stable release is out. Also, please be patient with us. We worked very hard to get this beta out to you before the end of the year. Our developers and support technicians will be spending some additional time with friends and family over the holiday, so response times may take a bit longer than normal and patches may not come until after the new year.

That being said, we here at PokerTracker want to wish each and every one of you a safe and very happy holiday season. We hope you enjoy the new changes in PT3 and we look forward to what the new year will bring for all of us. Thanks for your support and for using PokerTracker!

Please note that this thread is locked. The release threads tend to become a jumble of various problems and questions that are very difficult for our support technicians to keep track of. If you have questions or problems, please create new threads for each individual issue.

[Josh]

Beta 30.1 Released

Fixed:

Hud: Popups (issues with the taskbar)
Hud: Config not being able to change the separator (Mac)
Hud: Infinite symbol
Import: Party hand issues
Backup: Database names containing certain characters causing problems

[Josh]

Beta 30.2 Released

Added:

• Custom Stats: Convert stats
• Omaha: Cereus support
• Omaha: MicroGaming support
• Omaha: OnGame P5 support (no older PT2 format support or .db support - need histories!)
• Omaha: Pacific support
• Omaha: Everest support
• Omaha: Boss Media support
• Omaha: Cake support
• Omaha: Entraction support
• Pacific: Mucked hands support
• Cake: Auto-detect support for over 50 Cake skins
• Full Tilt: Rush Hud (instant updates)
• Mac: Cereus auto-import and Hud support

Changed:

• Housekeeping optimizations
• Mac Hud: Ctrl+click is same as right-clicking
• Hud: Imported profiles now automatically convert stats from Holdem to Omaha
• Backup/Restore: Allow changing DB name when restoring
• Full Tilt: Rush hands have their own limit and belong to same session
• Everest: More shorthanded tables automatically recognized

Fixed:

• Import: Satellite prizes awarded in FPP shown as $
• Import: Party import issues
• Import: Party email tournament summaries
• Import: Party NL Holdem tournaments defaulting incorrectly to 9-max
• Import: Party emailed Omaha hands importing as Holdem
• Import: More Party emailed problems
• Import: Party java client imports
• Import: PokerStars rebuy issue
• Import: PokerStars Euro hand histories
• Import: PokerStars 4-max tables
• Import: PokerStars handling of the Euro symbol on non-English versions of Windows
• Import: Full Tilt Omaha Hi/Lo hands importing as Hi
• Import: Large MTT summaries messages
• Import: Cereus tournament buyins from file name
• Import: Cereus $ GTD tourneys
• Import: Full Tilt tournament summaries not importing
• Import: iPoker tournament number parsing error
• Import: iPoker: Euro import problems on non-Euro Windows
• Import: Emails not working
• Import: Generic tournament summaries all importing as Omaha
• Import: Crashing in manual import with certain file names
• Import: Addons during bulk imports
• Import: Problem with UTF-8 detection (caused many EUR/GBP problems)
• Import: All-in pot size calculation error
• Import: Fold to BB problem
• TableTracker: Full Tilt and iPoker table opening
• TableTracker: PokerStars table opening
• TableTracker: Mac: Launch site for PokerStars, Full Tilt and OnGame
• TableTracker: Full Tilt table opening
• Mac: Hud config: Unable to change separator
• Mac: Hud not appearing (due to directory problem)
• Mac: Infinity symbol
• Backup/Restore: Not enough disk space for restore
• Backup/Restore: Backups stored non compressed due to size limitations
• GUI: Find player window empty site entry
• GUI: Settings not allowing user to choose an Omaha only player
• GUI: Purge dialog showing "[No Low Winner]" instead of "[No Player Selected]"
• GUI: Window Vista users notified of SP1 OR GREATER on PostgreSQL install
• GUI: Directory selection bug (duplicating last directory selected)
• GUI: Auto-detect not saving directories detected
• GUI: Mac: Tournaments not able to be selected in purge window
• GUI: Cake player filtering problems
• GUI: Access violation in display controls
• GUI: Error about cache not existing when purging new database
• GUI: Display UTF-8 properly in hand history display
• Stats: Crashing when users don't correctly match braces
• Stats: Hands Won incorrect value
• Full Tilt: Preference file access crashing when it doesn't exist
• Party: Seating for beginners table
• Notes: Tournament hand notes added to non-tournament hands
• Several crash sources
• Several memory leaks

This beta was delayed a bit longer than we hoped. There are a ton of bug fixes in this release, as you can see. I won't get into details on them, but PT3 should run better for everyone now, in one way or another.

The biggest delay was caused by the release of Rush Poker by Full Tilt. We weren't satisfied in giving you guys something silly like stats in exported notes, or to make you look up your opponents manually in a list of players. We wanted only the best. We wanted to give you exactly what you have on every other table you play on. We wanted to give you access to hundreds of stats in an instant, so you can make your decisions quickly and move on to the next hand. It was certainly not an easy task, and it's something you'll likely only find in PT3 for a good long while, but we succeeded in bringing you the first real time updating Hud for Rush Poker.

There are a few caveats you should be aware of. At this time there are no session stats or hero stats available. You will not be able to mark interesting hands for review via the Hud. Player notes will need to be added quickly (before the players change). Obviously, mucked hands don't display either. Other than that, your Hud is fully functional. This hasn't been tested against Full Tilt mods, so if you aren't using one of the four default table layouts provided by Full Tilt, you may experience issues. Mac users will unfortunately not be able to cash in on this feature just yet. It's Windows only for now, but we're working hard to bring it to our Mac users as well.

We've also almost completely finished the Omaha site support. Every site has Omaha support except for Bodog (which is coming soon). Unfortunately, we did not receive a large number of Omaha hand histories to test with, so there will most likely be occassional hands that won't import. If you encounter one that errors out or doesn't import properly, please send it to our support team so we can get it fixed. We've also made custom stats and Hud layouts easier to work with. You can convert custom stats from one section to other sections easily. Hud profiles also automatically convert stats from Holdem to Omaha and vice versa.

We continue to improve our Mac product by adding support for the Cereus Network in our auto-import and Hud. We've also improved the stat interaction on the Hud by allowing CTRL+click and drag to move the stats on the table.

We want to thank our users for patiently waiting for this update. We know it took longer than anyone hoped, but we believe you will find the wait well worth it.

[Josh]

Beta 30.3 Released

Fixed:

• Import: Party errors
• Rush Hud: Multitable issue
• Rush Hud: Replayer

[Josh]

Beta 30.4 Released

Added:

• Cache status bar info

Changed:

• PostgreSQL no longer bundled. Downloaded on demand when needed
• Housekeeping: Added reindex, reworked window

Fixed:

• Hud: Rush performance problems
• Hud: FTP SnGs not being recognized
• Import: Problem with deal blinds
• Import: Cake: BB posting after SB folds
• Import: Cake: Incorrect pot size when player/chips aren't declared
• Import: Party: Tourney player results and table type assignments
• Import: PokerStars: FPP rebuys giving $ amounts
• Import: PokerStars: Rebuys
• Import: PokerStars: Logic error that caused rebuy lines to be removed from stored HH
• Import: PokerStars: ACST time zone
• Import: British pound symbol issue
• Import: iPoker hands not being converted to 6 max with AQTL
• GUI: Bodog not checked for auto-import when not installed
• GUI: Notes being added to wrong section
• GUI: Report crashing
• PostgreSQL: Mac performance problems with queries
• Filter: River - Any A not working
• Backup/Restore: Fixed problem where tables would be restored empty

[Josh]

Beta 30.5 Released

Added:

• Bodog Omaha support

Changed:

• Hud: Rush tables now can have a separate layout assigned from normal tables

Fixed:

• Import: Rebuy calculations for PokerStars manual import
• Import: Euro/Pound import problems
• Hud: Replayer duplicating stats

[Josh]

Beta 30.6 Release

Added:

• Reports: Tournament summaries
• Adjust Limits window in Database Management
• Filters: Today, This Month, This Year

Changed:

• Cache: When cache is at 100%, auto-import will update it after each hand and hud will use cache-only queries
• Cache: Updating the cache from Housekeeping now does it incrementally if no new columns have been added

Fixed:

• Backup/Restore: Problems with very large databases
• Backup/Restore: PostgreSQL binaries detection
• Import: Problem causing import to never stop
• Import: Stars import using UTF-16 now
• Import: All-in bugs
• Import: Bodog Omaha issues
• Import: Cake SB calls all-in BB bug
• Import: Cereus sniper tournaments
• Import: Full Tilt run it twice hands
• GUI: Crashing
• Hud: Rush on Windows XP 64bit
• Hud: Refresh rates causing problems with Rush
• Hud: Party tourney tables not recognized after being moved
• Alias: Checking against Omaha hands
• Notes: Omaha tournament notes
• Email: New OpenSSL libraries to improve performance

Those of you having Hud performance problems should see a significant difference in this release. We have made some changes to the cache. As long as your cache is 100% before you start auto-import, it will be automatically updated after each hand. In addition to that, the Hud has been altered to use cache-exclusive queries in this case. What does that mean? The Hud queries, which are the source of most Hud performance issues, will be extremely fast.

This new cache change brings along another nice feature. Incremental cache updates. If PT3 doesn't detect new columns (from custom stats, or imported in with a Hud profile or report), the cache won't be recreated from scratch. This means cache updating during housekeeping should be significantly faster. Please note that purging hands or adjusting limits of sessions results in a purged cache, so you'll need to rebuild after those two activities.

That leads us to the next new feature. The Adjust Limit window. From the Database Management window, you can now change the limit of a session. Keep in mind, this will clear your cache, so it's recommended to do after you're done playing, so your cache can repopulate in time for your next session.

We've added summaries to both Holdem Tournaments and Omaha Tournaments. We've also added some highly requested filters in terms of dates. You can now set the "Today" or "This Month" or "This Year" filter and PT3 will automatically filter to those dates. This is just the beginning of a whole lot of new filters we're going to be adding to PT3.

In addition to those new features, we've fixed a number of bugs for this release. If you've encountered random crashes in PT3, we hope to have solved that problem. If you use Full Tilt's run it twice option, those hands should import without problem as well, although some stats and filters that rely on hand type might not work properly (due to only having partial information in the database).

Please let us know if you encounter any problems with this version.

[Josh]

Beta 30.7 Released

Added:

• Internet proxy support

Changed:

• Registration: Separate Holdem and Omaha trials
• Full Tilt memory grabber removed, since it's no longer functional
• PostgreSQL: Updated internal library (will hopefully fix some performance issues)

Fixed:

• Import: Full Tilt run it twice hands
• Import: Full Tilt heads up tables not being recognized as 2 max
• Import: Performance bottleneck with Full Tilt Rush tables
• Import: Pokerstars Euro Steps (A-G) tournaments in PokerStars.cfg
• Import: PokerStars: Euro detection on non-Windows / non-European systems
• Import: Cereus Omaha hands not importing mucked/showed cards
• Import: Boss Omaha hands not importing mucked/showed cards
• Import: iPoker tournament buyin and date errors
• Import: Party: Incorrect rake calculation on $3 SnGs
• Import: Cake: Incorrectly default tournaments to MTT
• Import: Cake tournament hand numbering system to void duplicates
• Import: Cake Omaha hands erroring because low pot not being calculated
• Import: Cereus bounties
• Import: Mac: Old Full Tilt hands that are incorrectly formatted
• Import: Email import performance problems
• GUI: Adjust Limits changes, fixed problem with some tables not being properly changed
• GUI: Problem with PT3 hanging
• GUI: Mac: Inactive cursor issue on tabs
• GUI: Mac: Text of the filters buttons when filters are activated
• Filters: Today, This Month, This Year for Holdem Tournaments and Omaha
• Cache: Some custom stats returning null values which causes invalid SQL to be generated
• Cache: Lockups/Crashes due to new cache update code
• Cache: Cache status taking long time on large dbs
• Hud: Mac popups
• Hud: Mac player notes not appearing above the table
• Hud: Full Tilt Rush: Performance issues
• Hud: Mac: Cereus tourney tables not being recognized
• Replayer: Chat box not showing all four Omaha showdown cards
• Database updates crashing
• Backup/Restore: Huge database problems
• Fixed Today, This Month, This Year filters to use "My Days Starts At..."
• Mac: Crash when accessing notes

We promised when Omaha support was introduced that it would have its own trial period. This version introduces new trial period code. Basically, you can choose when you start your trial period. If you want to trial Holdem and Omaha simultaneously, you can. If you want to trial Omaha a year after you bought Holdem, you can do that too. We also decided to reset everyone's trial period with this release. You now get another 60 days of Holdem AND 60 days of Omaha, for free. That being said, since Omaha is still in beta, everyone (even trial users) will notice that they are registered to use Omaha!

We've fixed a lot of bugs with this release as well. Full Tilt Rush performance problems should be a thing of the past. The problems some of you were having with the new cache updating should be gone as well. Please be sure to let us know if you encounter any problems with these.

It's also worth noting that for a few days after release, some virus scanners will falsely identify PT3's executable (and maybe a few .pt3 files) as viruses. This is a false positive and should be reported to the anti-virus companies. There are no viruses in PT3 if you've downloaded it from our website.

Note: There is a bug in Beta 30.7 which means that if you update directly to Beta 30.7 from a version before Beta 30 (e.g. Build 5.2 or Beta 29.1) then when you first run it PT3 will update the cache on all of your databases while the splash screen is being displayed. This can take some time if you have large databases, so please do it when you can leave it to complete (maybe overnight).
Alternatively you can install Beta 30.5 first and run this once before you update to Beta 30.7. This will avoid the forced cache update, but you will still need to run housekeeping to update the cache at some point.

[Josh]

Beta 30.8 Released

Added:

• New Site: Betfair
• New Site: Cryptologic network
• New Site: WPEX
• New Site: Pre-Cereus Ultimate Bet & Absolute
• New cash graphing options
• Auto Rate: Omaha
• New filters
• Options to allow user to select which tabs are shown

Changed:

• Reports: Name can be changed
• Hud: Group import/export
• GUI: New stat selection controls
• TableTracker: New "Tables" column so users can see how many tables a player is playing

Fixed:

• Filters: Tournament filters window crashing when opening second window
• Filters: Pot size filters now work with graphs
• Filters: Custom reports filtering error with using group-by and non-group-by columns in filters
• Hud: More Rush performance issues
• Hud: PokerStars: Memory grabber for euro tables
• Hud: Mac: Cereus preferred seating
• Import: Everest re-importing previous hands (duplicates)
• Import: Bodog: Hands from DogWatch grabber
• Import: PokerStars: Pound tournament hands being rejected as play money
• Import: Party: Java client hand histories
• Import: Bodog: Player names with spaces wouldn't locate hole cards properly
• Import: WPEX: Tournament support
• Import: Mac: Move (truncate) after import problem
• Import: Omaha hand type recognition
• TableTracker: Mac: Launching for Cereus and FTP
• TableTracker: Full Tilt table opening
• TableTracker: PokerStars table opening
• Backup/Restore: Better method for restart
• Backup/Restore: PokerTracker.cfg with different PostgreSQL settings
• Cache: Queries not properly using cache
• Cache: Upgrading from pre-Omaha build causing cache to be populated at startup (during splash screen)
• Cache: Auto-importing into an empty database not auto-updating cache
• Mac: Memory leak during auto-import
• Mac: Bugs in tooltips
• Mac: Hud: Getting window titles in current locale
• GUI: Limits in Filters windows not sorted correctly
• GUI: Details tab showing previous data when filtering should show no data at all
• GUI: Exit PT3 if user clicks link to download in New Version message
• GUI: Couple crashes
• Notes: Searching for player_name instead of player_name_search
• Reports: Divide by zero prevention (caused some queries to error out)
• Stats: Fixed incorrect summary types for a few Hand stats
• Problem getting PostgreSQL Bin directory
• Database: Role names now in quotations
• Installer: After this version, will remember location of PT3 install for next time

We're having a few major events this month. First, PT2 Holdem support is coming to an end at the end of this month. Anyone still using PT2 should look to upgrade now, as no new development or bug fixes will be happening after the 31st. Secondly, the beta tests of the Mac and the Omaha functionality is going to be ending. We want to thank everyone who helped us test the new functionality.

This release introduces support for a few more sites. We've also expanded the auto-rate functionality to work with Omaha. Players will no longer share a single icon for both Holdem and Omaha, they each now have their own.

We've also introduced new graph tabs for cash games. You can now choose different configuration options, like whether you want to see results in currency or in BB, whether you want to see results by hand, date, month or sessions. A new innovative option we've added to PT3's graphs is the ability to see stat values on the graph. Want to see how your VP$IP changes affect your winrate? You can do that. You can also choose which stats are on your info box, if you even want an info box at all. This will be expanded for tournaments in the future.

We've got some new filters in this version as well. There are way too many to list here, but check them out. I'm certain they will help in the pursuit of leaks.

In addition to the new features, we've fixed a large number of bugs. If you were experiencing any problems with the last beta, please try this one. Be sure to notify us of any problems you encounter.

[Josh]

Beta 30.9 Released

Added:

• New Site: Tribeca
• GUI: Cache Rebuild option to Housekeeping

Changed:

• Graph: Primary line is no longer bold
• Graph: Winnings, Showdown/Non SD and EV lines are always the same colors
• Import: Party import now uses available player count instead of requiring "Treat As" options
• GUI: MicroGaming: Updated icon
• GUI: Old Absolute updated icon
• GUI: Housekeeping information

Fixed:

• GUI: Bodog hand history validation message
• GUI: Bodog crashes
• GUI: Lockup with reports when right-clicking
• GUI: Check/Bet groups not in new stat selection control
• GUI: Graph: Crashes
• GUI: Crash when closing PT3 while auto-import is running
• GUI: Quicker feedback on Start/Stop Hud button
• GUI: Fixed report crash under certain filter conditions
• GUI: "Older Version" message box typo
• GUI: Not working for 1024x600 screen resolution
• GUI: Housekeeping: Update Cache recommendations
• GUI: Lockup during population of controls.
• Setup Wizard: Skipping import causing problems with manual import
• TableTracker: Filtering not working properly against stack sizes
• TableTracker: Freezing when launching and/or opening tables
• Import: FullTilt: Omaha Hi/Lo Rush table
• Import: FullTilt: Play money .COM tables
• Import: FullTilt: Post showdown "player shows hand" lines causing problems
• Import: FullTilt: Player names starting with "Seat "
• Import: Bodog: Memory leaks
• Import: Cereus Holdem cash hands being misidentified as old Absolute hands
• Import: Cereus jackpot hands not importing
• Import: Cereus 7-2 hands
• Import: Various WPEX problems
• Import: Various Cryptologic problems
• Import: Various pre-Cereus AP/UB problems
• Import: Pacific preflop blind raises causing problems
• Import: PokerStars: FPP tournaments being flagged as play money
• Import: PokerStars: AEST (Australia East TZ) problems
• Import: PokerStars: Tournament summary times issue
• Import: OnGame: SQLite (pre-P5) Omaha support
• Import: OnGame: Supervisor Session ID in HH
• Import: OnGame: Fix for French tables on Winamax
• Import: Party: Crash when big blind seat isn't valid
• Import: Everest: All-ins before the river
• Import: Boss: Players with parenthesis in their name
• Import: Boss: Non-dollar currency imports in non-European languages
• Import: Boss: Players with ampersands in their name
• Import: WPEX: FPP tourneys importing as cash
• Import: Entraction: Euro currency symbol in non-European locales
• Import: Entraction: Limits written with commas
• Import: Entraction: Hands sent from customer service
• Import: Entraction: Hand histories with comma delimited currency
• Import: MicroGaming: Problems with Euro characters
• Import: Betfair: Problem with exporting hands
• Import: Betfair: Exported Omaha tournaments
• Import: Betfair: Early showdown cards not being saved
• Import: iPoker: Pounds import errors
• Import: iPoker: Rebuys issue
• Import: Tournament results not being accurate when summary imported before hands
• Import: Mac: UTF-8 import issue
• Import: JST Japanese timezone support
• Import: Problem with calling all-ins
• Import: Email: Possible performance fix
• Graph: All-In EV being displayed in $ when BB is selected
• Graph: All-In EV not displaying for aliased hands
• Graph: Daily winnings graph not filtering properly
• Hud: iPoker auto-center
• Hud: PokerStars Double or Nothing tables
• Hud: Failure when database is deleted
• Hud: Betfair 6 max tables incorrectly identified as 9 max
• Hud: PokerStars: 4-max stat positions
• Filters: Made Hand - Two Pair - Flop - Top and Middle (needs to be Top and Bottom)
• Cache: Problem with certain players not being cached
• Email: Bug with SMTP requirements
• Stats: Custom/imported stats always asking to save changes
• Stats: Column definition for Raise F Bet stats
• Stats: Added stats for Omaha (that were added in recent alpha)
• Stats: W$SD % When Bet or Raise PreFlop format/title
• Stats: cnt_sb_steal_raise column in Holdem Tourney Player Stats section
• Stats: Details tab actions stats incorrect
• Stats: Total Flop Action for tournaments
• Replayer: Wrong pot odds in certain circumstances
• Queries: datefix functions not calculating DST correctly
• AutoRate: Ignoring min hands required when date filters also used
• Backup/Restore: XML issues when exporting/importing notes

A ton of bug fixes. We're gearing up for a new stable release, so please report your bugs!