Friday, October 30, 2009

New Tool : Hand Distribution Calculator

So while I was at work the other day I came up with an idea for a way of pulling out an approximate hand distribution for an opponent based on his/her VP$IP percentage. Key word being approximate, because it is possible for someone with a VPIP of 5% to play a 72o every now and then, just unlikely. So if you look at the upper right hand sidebar, you will see my new Hand Distribution Calculator, the first of it's kind from what Google showed me. I am going to be making some tweaks to my coding for it to perfect it here and there, so let me know if any of you have problems with it. So basically, this should help with some of your away from table workings if you use programs such as PokerStove, along with while you are playing and you want to just check out what hands might be in your opponents' ranges as you are playing them, it might be able to help you with a critical decision! Hope you guys enjoy!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Short Update Problems

Hey all, sorry for not getting back later on that night and posting those hands, I got home and my computer was down and I have been having problems pretty much ever since. After I got the computer back up and running due to a memory issue(just a bad stick), I updated to Windows 7 and I have been having some problems connecting to my Holdem Manager database. So now what is on my agenda is I am taking spare parts from all of the computers that I have built in the past and I am making a linux server that will probably partially be a media server, but mainly it will host my Holdem Manager PostgreSQL Database on it, so that way I will just be able to connect to it from anywhere, including from my laptop if I'm away from home or something. This will be so much better than having to import and export the databases from each computer everytime I want to use one or the other if I want to keep my stats 100% up to date. So right now I am in the process of getting all of this older hardware(some of which may have been the problem with those old computers) all put together and working correct and then I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10 on it, which comes out tomorrow. At the moment, for some reason the computer isn't recognizing both the hard drive and the DVD-R at the same time, only one. It doesn't matter how I have them set up either, whether on different IDE slots or if they are set up as master/slave configs. So that will be my project this weekend between going out and partying for Halloween. But I am pretty excited about that, especially since I will be up and running again with poker. It's not that I couldn't play without all of this being done, I just have that on my mind now and I want all of this finished and out of the way before I do anything else now, lol.
Other than that, I have noticed that the graph on the sidebar freezes Internet Explorer everytime the page loads, so that is gone for good now. For a while I had thought that I fixed that problem, but it's back. I would really rather not have the crappy picture that you have to click on to see well, but I will find something to go in that graph's place. Although when I was searching for widgets, it looks like Google got rid of a lot of them. So be on the watchout for that.
Last note....we have a real URL now!!! Absoluthamm.com is now the official address for this page(just a redirect obviously) so that will be a lot nicer than typing out buildthatbankroll.blogspot.com. I have a lot of plans for that domain in the future as well (maybe I will design a new site and host it on that linux box that I'm getting up ;) ). Well, that's all I've got for today. Hope everyone has a great Halloween weekend playing poker or partying and getting wasted... I know I should be doing the former, but I will definitely be doing the latter. Peace

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Fall Is Here

Hey everyone, been a while yet again, even though there should have been a post about 2 weeks ago, but when I was just about to publish the post, my computer shut down on me for no reason, then I was too lazy to go back and type everything back up again, so blame technology on that one, or me being lazy, what ever you choose.
So I have had another good month, bumping up my top 3 sites yet again. Bodog by about $154, mainly from playing $8.80 MTTs, as they, in my opinion at least, have the best ROI for the lower limits on Bodog, because their $2.20 and $3.30 MTTs have all of the people that would normally be in the $0.25-0.50 MTTs on FullTilt or PokerStars, because Bodog's micro limits are higher. So I have been pretty successfull with those. I haven't played any of them in the past couple weeks and I have no way of tracking the hand history on there(yet) because they are stupid, so I am unable to give any specific hands that I had played.
On FullTilt, I have been up and down with my cash game playing, and I'm still working that out. Lately I haven't been able to play much because everything has been so busy with work and events on the weekends, so I am going to try to get back into that next week I hope. But I have cashed in a couple CardsChats.com tournaments, the last one being two days ago when I got 2nd for $34, and I will go over two of the big hands from when we were Heads Up later on tonight when I get home from work.
On UltimateBet as well I got 2nd place in a CardsChat.com tournament, taking in $30 for 2nd place, but I should not have gotten 2nd place. My connection went out when there were still 8 people at the final table and I was chipleader, and I was never able to get back online. Later on I found out that when it was down to 3 players, I was just about to blind out, and one of the other guys playing went all in against the then chipleader and lost, so I ended up blinding out in the round or two later and got 2nd because he made the mistake of not just waiting for me to blind out. Funny stuff.
Well, I will be back on later tonight to post those hands, so see ya in a few hours!