Introducing Pokeit HUD beta!

It's the Pokeit HUD, Finally!!

We’re thrilled to announce the beta release of Pokeit HUD! With Pokeit HUD, real-time statistics detailing your opponents’ betting patterns and playing style are displayed directly over their seats at the poker table. Pokeit subscribers can visit this page to download the Pokeit HUD standalone program.

We’re releasing Pokeit HUD in beta with the following features:

Cash & tournament support for 19 games across 9 sites & networks: Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, and Draw variants of poker are supported making Pokeit HUD the first commercial product compatible with mixed games. The eight sites & networks include PokerStars, 888Poker, Winamax, PartyPoker, iPoker, Winning Poker, Merge Network, and Boss Media
An editable HUD profile: Select from 64 pre-built stats or create your own using the Pokeit Formula builder. A color palette is available for styling, and filters can be applied allowing you to see only the data that’s relevant to you
Favorite seat picker: Right-click on a HUD box to assign it as your preferred seat for a given site and table size
OSX & Windows compatible: Installers are available for OSX version 10.6+ and Windows 7+
Regular tables only: The beta version is not compatible with fast fold tables

Right now, the beta version of Pokeit HUD requires also running the existing Pokeit app you’ve been using for uploading hands.

Throughout the beta program we’ll be focusing on fixing bugs and adding functionality. Here’s what’s on our roadmap for version 1.0:

Integrating the legacy Pokeit app: Pokeit HUD beta requires the existing Pokeit app to be installed in order to sync your poker data with your online database. We will be incorporating the syncing functionality into the Pokeit HUD app in version 1.0 so only one program will be required
Multiple HUD profiles: Want to display different stats for the different games you play? In version 1.0 we’ll be adding the ability to create multiple HUD profiles, which can be assigned to individual game types
Mucked cards: Mucked card display saves you the effort of going back through the hand histories to see what your opponent folded. After the hand is over, the mucked cards will be displayed on top of the table
Helpful widgets: Star hands for later without having to visit the Pokeit website. Keep track of player notes and write new ones on the fly
Loading individual visualizations on your desktop: Your favorite visualizations will be accessible directly from the Pokeit HUD tray menu

All versions of Pokeit HUD (beta and beyond) will be available to Pokeit users at no additional cost. We expect to release version 1.0 in the first quarter of 2018. Several other features stand out as must-haves to be added later in 2018:

Player detail: Curious about your history against an individual player? Simply right click on their HUD box and open up a detail window with loads of additional statistics and analysis options
Population statistics: See where a player lies along the population distribution. Determine the significance of newly-observed data given what you’ve seen before
Fast fold support: PokerStars Zoom poker is a priority and we’ll turn our attention to other sites once that’s complete

With all that said, go ahead and download Pokeit HUD beta. We’re looking forward to your feedback.

Thanks,
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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Now optimized for iOS, Android, & Windows devices

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.

The Pokeit Team
Chaz & Bryon

Introducing the new Pokeit

A collection of Visualizations

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.

blog2 — 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.

The Pokeit Team
Chaz & Bryon