Introducing visualization and database sharing

This post is about sharing, and these people are sharing Nachos.

We’ve introduced two new ways for you to share your poker hands, stats, and graphs. The first, called Snapshots, lets you share a single visualization. The second, Secure Share, is for granting access to your entire database.

Snapshots

Many of you have asked for a way to share whole reports and graphs instead of just single hands. After you finish a tournament you may want to send the hands you played to a friend or coach to help you review. With the new Snapshots feature, all you would have to do is open Hand Browser, add a filter for the tournament, and then click on the new sharing button in the top right corner of the toolbar. Other visualizations can be shared just as easily.

You may not always want to share everything about your poker data when you make a snapshot, so we’ve included three privacy options for your convenience. Hide Player Names obscures the player aliases at the table and replaces them with their seat number. Hide Holecards only reveals holecards if they’re shown or mucked at the end of the hand. Hide Hand Details disables the detail side panel so hand histories and the replayer cannot be seen. By default, the snapshot name will be the name of the visualization but it can be changed as you see fit. This is useful if you’ve added a filter to the visualization and want a distinct title to reflect that.

Visualizations shared via Snapshots do not update when new data is added to your database. You can remove or alter the privacy options of your shared snapshots at any time by visiting the “Snapshots” section of the Account page.

Secure Share

With other poker programs you would have to use a screen sharing application or share your own password if you wanted to show someone else your database. This can be cumbersome, time consuming and is most of all insecure. We’ve solved this problem with a new feature that lets you securely share your entire Pokeit database.

We built Secure Share with coaches and backers in mind, but you can share your database with anyone as long as they are a Pokeit user. You can grant access to another user from the “Secure Share” section of the Account page and that access can be revoked by you at any time. All they have to do is accept your invitation for access and then they can switch between their own database and yours by clicking on the Account icon in the main header of the app.

Up next

We’ve been fairly quiet over the past few months. Two new yet-to-be-released features are in the final stages of development. We’re really excited about what’s in store and we look forward to telling you all about these features in the coming weeks.

Thanks,
The Pokeit Team

See your game at a glance with the new Pokeit dashboard

All these filters right at your fingertips

Now, every time you login, you’ll be greeted with a dashboard snapshot of your results.

Featuring all the capabilities and power of the new Pokeit, the dashboard is graphically interactive with toggles for hands and tournaments, timeframe and currency. Filters added from the metadata menus will update your dashboard automatically.

Visualizations can be loaded into the app just like before and are displayed in a widget to the right of the graph. We’ve also included a new tips & tricks box with suggestions for getting the most out of Pokeit.

The new dashboard answers your most common poker questions while enabling deep dives into visualizations to answer the harder ones. We’ll be adding more capabilities to the dashboard in the coming weeks so look out for more updates like this one.

Pokeit now supports the Winning Poker Network

All these filters right at your fingertips

Long awaited, support for the Winning Poker Network (WPN) is finally here! Currently ranked 2nd in US cash game traffic and 9th worldwide, the Winning Poker Network includes the popular skins America’s Cardroom, Black Chip Poker, True Poker and the Spanish language site YaPoker.

Pokeit is now completely compatible with WPN cash and tournament hands and all five games spread by the network (Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7-Card Stud, and 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo). You can also track tournament results by saving the complete WPN Tournament Transactions page to file and then adding the file ‘PlayerTransactionHistory.html’ to a Pokeit synced folder. We will be updating your Pokeit database with any previously uploaded WPN hands in the coming days.

We have also added support for Ignition Casino – the successor to Bovada. In order to start tracking hands, you’ll need to add the Ignition Hand History folder to Pokeit once you’ve downloaded the new Ignition Casino software.

In other news, you may have heard that the Chico Poker Network no longer saves hand histories to file with its new software. This makes it impossible to track the network, forcing us to discontinue our support for the Chico Poker Network.

If you have any questions about this update or just want to talk, feel free to email us at any time at info@pokeit.co.

Good luck at the tables!
The Pokeit Team

Simplifying the Pokeit Interface

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Imagine a university quad. The grass is a beautiful emerald green but, in a few places, it’s been beaten down to the dirt in straight smooth lines. These dirt paths, not the brick walkways, are the fastest way to get from point A to point B.

Similarly, at Pokeit, we have been using your feedback to cut direct paths to the most important parts of the app. Here are some of the changes we’ve made for this new version 3.4.1 release:

  • The settings panel now opens directly to the presentation section while viewing a loaded visualization. Here you can add, remove and rearrange your fields and change the grouping of your visualization. The filters section is now one click away as are all the advanced options available to you before;
  • We have also simplified the filters section, making it easier to find new filters to add to your visualizations. Just start typing and matching options will appear on the screen. There’s now a dedicated section called the Filter Workspace, which is shared across all open visualizations so you don’t have to add the same filter twice;
  • You can now “favorite” visualizations either from the dashboard or from the save dialog. Favorited visualizations appear at the top of the dashboard giving you easy access to the views you use most; and
  • We’ve improved Hand Browser load times dramatically so you don’t have to wait as long to see your most recent hands

Check out our changelog to find out more about these changes. For our next update, we’ll be adding the Winning Poker Network to Pokeit’s comprehensive list of supported sites.

Thanks,
The Pokeit Team

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Filter like you’ve never filtered before

All these filters right at your fingertips

We closed a chapter last Friday when we officially shut down old Pokeit. For those of you that have upgraded to new Pokeit, we’re excited to have all of you along for the ride.

If you missed the deadline, you can still upgrade to the new Pokeit now. It won’t have your hand histories from before, but sometimes it’s best to start things off with a clean slate. 

We’ve recently made several updates to the site to improve your experience:

  • A new filters popup: The filters popup has been revamped to make it easier to toggle and adjust conditions. The popup includes direct links to all the active conditions, shortcuts for adding new conditions and filters, and a reset button for clearing everything out at once
  • Selective import: You can now select games for Pokeit to ignore from the account page. This is useful if you’re only interested in tracking particular games in Pokeit and want to significantly speed up your database
  • Simplified saving: Anytime you save a visualization, those changes will propagate to your other visualizations when applicable. For example, if you set a filter in Hand Browser, save, and then open the Hands Graph, those changes will be in there too
  • A new client program: Last week we fixed a bug which prevented hands from importing while you play. If you haven’t already done so, please restart the Pokeit application installed on your computer and it will update automatically

You can check out all of our recent changes on our changelog.

Thanks,
The Pokeit Team