Everything you were able to do in the old version can be done in the new. On top of that, we’ve added tons of new features, graph types and statistics to help you get the most out of your poker data.
If after a month of using the new Pokeit you decide it isn’t for you, we’ll be happy to give you your money back. There’s no risk to upgrading.
Here’s what we’ve been up to in the three weeks since we last touched base:
Revert: We’ve added a revert button. This feature acts more or less like an undo button and you can use it to clear out any changes made since the last time you saved
Keyboard shortcuts: We’ve begun adding shortcuts for navigating and controlling Pokeit. Use the enter key to update your data, the arrow keys to replay a hand, Ctrl + S to save and Ctrl + Z to undo changes
We’ve also been busy building help documentation and addressing several outstanding bugs. Be sure to check out all of these changes in the change log. If you have any questions about this or anything else, don’t hesitate to email us at support@pokeit.co.
A month has passed since we launched the new version of Pokeit! If you haven’t upgraded yet, you’re missing out on a completely new way to visualize and understand your poker game. We’ve improved upon the old version in every way with hundreds of stats, dozens of graph types and a fully customizable interface for getting the answers you need from your poker data.
To help you master the new Pokeit, we’ve launched a YouTube channel with how-to guides on the most important features and capabilities. So far we’ve made eight videos, with many more planned in the coming weeks:
Since launching the new version of Pokeit earlier this month, we’ve been hard at work responding to all of your requests and ideas for improvements. Today we released an update which adds the following new capabilities:
Pokeit’s now fully functional on phones and tablets. Elements fit the screen in either portrait or landscape orientation and dragging and dropping via gestures has been enabled
Labels showing totals have been added to cumulative line graphs
Labels have been added to bets in Replayer and a running count of the current pot size is now displayed in the top right of the screen
We’ve also fixed numerous bugs over the past two weeks. You can find a full list of features and updates on our new change log page.
Two years ago, after releasing the last major update to Pokeit, we realized we were at a crossroads. We built Pokeit with the assumption that most poker players only want a few things out of a tracker: a list of recent hands, a replayer, a few reports and statistics, and line graphs of winnings. What Pokeit lacked in flexibility and customization, it made up for in being pretty easy to use. However, we began to see that our assumptions had been slightly off:
Each poker player may only have a few requirements, but they’re all different.
The reason they’re different is because every poker player is different. Players bring with them their own unique feel, skill and past experiences to gain an edge at the table. In practice this means each player wants to ask different questions of their data, thus creating a long tail of permutations we would have to anticipate. We would need to rebuild Pokeit from scratch in order to answer these questions so that’s what we did.
What’s new in the new Pokeit?
We had several goals in developing the new version of Pokeit. The first was that it should be fully customizable. The old Pokeit could be described as a set of pre-configured views. With the new version we wanted to give you the power to answer any type of poker question. That includes being able to create and save unique views, which we call Visualizations. But it also extends into being able to write your own custom statistics, style graphs and tables with your own themes, and saving and recombining these elements on the fly.
Our second objective was to make available to you the full set of statistics and fields available in your database. With help from the very excellent open source Free Poker Database (fpdb), Pokeit tracks and stores hundreds of fields and statistics from your hand histories and tournament summaries. The flexibility of the new version lets us start you off with a few defaults, and from there you can swap in over 300 previously unavailable fields and statistics.
The new dashboard. Jump into any visualization with the click of a button!
Another goal we had was to expand the range of visual options available for analyzing poker data. Everyone’s familiar with line graphs and tables but we wanted to go way beyond that with the new Pokeit. Using the open source d3.js, we were able to develop dozens of new visualizations based on 9 unique shapes. You can now track the flow of chips at the table with a Chord diagram, see how chip stacks have changed over time with a Streamgraph, or plot the lifetime earnings of recently seen villains using an Exploded Line chart. These new layouts will provide insight into your data beyond anything that’s been available before.
The last step we took in redeveloping Pokeit was to improve load times and overall performance when handling large datasets. The new version is optimized for speed and we also give you loads of ways to segment and sample values from your database. Using the Timeframe option you can select a specific year, month, or day to pull data from. We’ve also added limit & random sampling options so even while you’re viewing a graph of millions of hands, only a few thousand will have to be downloaded and displayed at once.
Pricing changes
In the six years since we began working on Pokeit, the landscape of poker has changed completely. Black Friday happened, PokerStars left and then re-entered the US, player pools have matured, and Twitch streaming has finally started to take off. When we went back to the drawing board to build the new Pokeit we realized that another thing that needed to change was our pricing model. The fact is we need to raise more revenue from subscriptions if we’re going to continue working on Pokeit full-time. We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned for Pokeit but none of it will be possible if we’re unable to devote the time and resources needed to see it through.
The pricing changes we’re making will shift our service from tiers based on number of hands which can be stored to one based on the types of games which are supported. Every plan allows you to store unlimited hands. Data-mined hands, however, are prohibited. There are 3 plans now:
Hold’em Only ($10/month): Only Hold’em games are supported. Can be cash or tournament and can be any blind level
Flop Games ($20/month): Any game that has a flop, turn and river is supported. This includes the following 10 variants: Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 5-Card Omaha, 5-Card Omaha Hi-Lo, 6-Card Omaha, Courchevel, Courchevel Hi-Lo, Double Hold’em, Irish
All Games ($100/month): Every form of poker that can be played on the internet. Includes the following 19 games: Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 5-Card Omaha, 5-Card Omaha Hi-Lo, 6-Card Omaha, Courchevel, Courchevel Hi-Lo, Double Hold’em, Irish, 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo, 5-Card Stud, Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw, 2-7 Single Draw, 5-Card Draw, A-5 Single Draw, Badugi
For those who have enjoyed the free plan or play low stakes mixed games and cannot justify the cost of upgrading, we hope you’ll understand why we needed to make these changes. The Free Poker Database (fpdb) is a great open source alternative and there are a lot of resources out there to help get you started.
Next Steps
Current users can go ahead and follow this link to the upgrade page. If you’re new to Pokeit, head over to the signup page to create an account. Current users will have until May 31, 2016 to upgrade. After that date, we’re going to retire the old version, so be sure to pick out a new plan by then in order to keep using Pokeit.
If you want to find out more about what’s new in this new version, head on over to the features page. We’ll be posting more about how to use the new features in the coming weeks so make sure to check back here on the blog. We’ve also published a number of How-To Tutorial videos, and more of those are coming soon.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us at info@pokeit.co. We’ll be happy to hear from you.
Welcome to the new Pokeit blog. We’ve gone ahead and done a little spring cleaning here and removed all the old posts. We’re going to be a lot more active here in the coming weeks. Check back here for new How-to videos, in-depth looks at new features, and updates on any changes we make to the new version of Pokeit. We’re glad to be back. Stay tuned for more.
