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At the request of Mr. Flibble, I'm writing this post to tell you about Poker Sleuth, which began life as a set of home-brewed poker tools while I was a graduate student working on my Ph.D. in Computer Science. After I finished my degree, I decided to productize my tools and make them available to others (for a price - I still need to eat). Poker Sleuth includes a 30-day free trial with complete functionality, plus a 30-day unconditional return policy. Poker Sleuth's Equity Calculator is 100% free of charge and will continue to work even after the trial has expired. I'll start by telling you about that. It's awesome. Even if you don't care about any of Poker Sleuth's other tools and have no intention of ever making a purchase, you will still want the free Equity Calculator. I might be a teensy bit biased. However, if you try the Poker Sleuth Equity Calculator, and you're not thinking "Okay, this is seriously awesome", then send me back to the drawing board with your feedback because I am committed to awesomeness. On the surface, the Poker Sleuth Equity Calculator is similar to Poker Stove, which I'm sure many of you are familiar with. You type in some hand ranges for a few players and it tells you their showdown equity. Similarities end there. In Poker Sleuth's Equity Calculator, results appear as you type. You don't have to choose a calculation method or click a button or wait for results. They just appear, and they appear for all streets. It's fast enough to use during play (if you're not multi-tabling). It also supports weighted hand ranges, an idea introduced by Hold'em Ranger. Here's a partial screenshot:
Multi-tablers, ever wanted to note a hand for later? The Poker Sleuth Taskbar Tool makes it a snap. Your hole cards from your recent hands will appear in the taskbar. Simply click to note the hand for later. You don't need to search for the right table, just point and click. You can hover over the cards to see a brief summary of the hand, or click to bring up the hand history and take notes right away. By default, the Taskbar Tool will hide hands where your folded right away, so you only see the interesting hands.
Poker Sleuth also includes a Heads-Up Display (HUD), that overlays statistics about your opponents directly onto the poker table. Poker Sleuth uses Bayesian statistics, displaying a range for each statistic by incorporating how many data points it has for the stat as well as information about the typical spread for that stat across players. Poker Sleuth's HUD automatically colors all of the statistics, based on the following simple rules:
Poker Sleuth bases the colors on the typical player in your hand history database.
Poker Sleuth's Hand Reviewer can load a hand directly into the Equity Calculator, making an educated guess about the ranges of all the players. The Hand Reviewer also includes an integrated hand history converter that can pop up a web browser on your favorite web forum and pre-populate the edit box with a hand. It even supports OutFlopped; here's a sample of how it formats a hand:
Poker Sleuth has many other features, but this post is already quite long, so you'll just have to check out the Poker Sleuth website if you want more information. Poker Sleuth supports Texas Hold'em (ring games, SNGs, and tournaments; limit, no limit, and pot limit). Poker Sleuth works with 888, Absolute, Full Tilt, OnGame, Party, PKR, Stars, and Ultimate Bet, and runs on Windows 7, Vista, and XP (32-bit and 64-bit versions). Of particular note, Poker Sleuth's HUD works flawlessly with Full Tilt's Rush Poker, by instantly detecting the new players as soon as you're reseated. If you have a question, post it as an answer and I'll respond in a comment. |
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trying your program, but how do you start it? Is there a manual? John There's isn't a manual, but there is quite a bit of information on the Poker Sleuth website. To start it, after installation double click on the Poker Sleuth icon on your desktop. Then, look for the Poker Sleuth icon in the Windows System tray. You may have to expand the system tray to find it (you can right click on the tray and choose "Customize Notifications" to tell Windows to always show it).
(Jul 23 '10 at 05:55)
Daniel Stutzbach
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Why is PokerSleuth able to instantly detect new players as soon as they are reseated? On most sites, Poker Sleuth monitors the text that the poker client draws to the screen, allowing Poker Sleuth to instantly detect new players. This handy feature makes it possible to see the stats on players as soon as you sit down at a table, and makes it possible to possible to fully support Full Tilt's Rush Poker where the players change every round.
(Aug 04 '10 at 13:35)
Daniel Stutzbach
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How do you plan to keep up with the constant software changes in poker clients? Two parts of Poker Sleuth need to keep up with changes: the parser and detecting which windows are tables. Both parts use a variety of heuristics rather than strict rules, to minimize the need for changes to Poker Sleuth in response to changes in poker clients. When changes are needed, they are usually simple changes that can go out in a new release soon after I'm notified of the problem. Poker Sleuth checks for new versions on start-up.
(Aug 04 '10 at 13:33)
Daniel Stutzbach
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Daniel, are you answering questions in this thread? Yes, sorry for the slow response time.
(Aug 04 '10 at 13:29)
Daniel Stutzbach
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