kamrann
06-23-2005, 03:11 PM
Some free SNG Software. (http://www.sngpro.com)
Okay, heres the deal. I've been working on some general purpose SNG software for quite a while now. It started off as a small side project but as always happens with my programming projects it got a bit bloated, so I've recently been thinking of actually making it good, and looking to sell it at some point. Anyway, there's been a fair bit of discussion on the above things recently on the board, and my program already has some functionality relating to them all, so I figured I'd release a free cut down version of it for anyone interested. The other reason for me doing this now is that I'm not going to be able to spend much time on it over the next few weeks, and I don't want it stagnating on my computer when some people could get some use out of it.
Now, it's not all that cut down really. I've disabled the stuff that doesn't work yet anyway, and limited it to a maximum of 500 SNG's in any one database. This is a fairly large number I think, and anyway you can create as many databases as you like.
Before downloading, you should know it is very specific in it's requirements at the moment. Specifically, it only works with Party Poker (or skins) NLHE One Table SNG's, and not the STEPS. It can only import the hand histories that are dumped on your hard disk by the poker client, not the summaries you receive by email. Also, I imagine, though haven't checked, that it requires Windows XP, 2000 or NT4. There's a bit more info in the readme file included with the download.
Briefly, what it currently does is:
- Displays information on SNGs, Sessions, Hands, and Allins, sortable by different criteria.
- Generates summary information for each of the above 4 samples. For example, the SNGs summary includes ROI, ITM, Avg. Table Count, Avg. Chips Heads Up (and lots more).
- There's a display for individual hand histories. I've also implemented a condensed mode like bisonbisons converter. I've made it as similar to his as possible, since people have complained it doesn't work too well but obviously posters on here as used to the format. Of course if I ever sell this software I won't copy his format, it was just for convenience for this release. There's an option to copy the hand history onto the clipboard, preformatted for the 2+2 board.
- Allins/Luckometer. When you import SNGs, it searches for all your allin situations and calculates $EV using ICM and works out the difference between that and your actual results in the hand, so you get a $EV - $AV value for each, giving an idea of how much luck cost or gained you after all the chips went in. My enumerator is currently very unoptimised so this takes ages for all the hands, but runs in the background so you can still use the rest of the program while its calculating.
- Theres a simple tool added for calculating rough probabilities of ITM/OOTM streaks given ITM% and number of SNGs.
Alright, post way too long already. Would be glad of any feedback or suggestions for the program, though as I said I'll be too busy to work much on it over the coming weeks.
Oh and one final thing. The domain for the download is only just registered. It's working fine here, but it's possible it may not have yet propagated to the USA, in which case give it 24 hours and it should be up.
Okay, heres the deal. I've been working on some general purpose SNG software for quite a while now. It started off as a small side project but as always happens with my programming projects it got a bit bloated, so I've recently been thinking of actually making it good, and looking to sell it at some point. Anyway, there's been a fair bit of discussion on the above things recently on the board, and my program already has some functionality relating to them all, so I figured I'd release a free cut down version of it for anyone interested. The other reason for me doing this now is that I'm not going to be able to spend much time on it over the next few weeks, and I don't want it stagnating on my computer when some people could get some use out of it.
Now, it's not all that cut down really. I've disabled the stuff that doesn't work yet anyway, and limited it to a maximum of 500 SNG's in any one database. This is a fairly large number I think, and anyway you can create as many databases as you like.
Before downloading, you should know it is very specific in it's requirements at the moment. Specifically, it only works with Party Poker (or skins) NLHE One Table SNG's, and not the STEPS. It can only import the hand histories that are dumped on your hard disk by the poker client, not the summaries you receive by email. Also, I imagine, though haven't checked, that it requires Windows XP, 2000 or NT4. There's a bit more info in the readme file included with the download.
Briefly, what it currently does is:
- Displays information on SNGs, Sessions, Hands, and Allins, sortable by different criteria.
- Generates summary information for each of the above 4 samples. For example, the SNGs summary includes ROI, ITM, Avg. Table Count, Avg. Chips Heads Up (and lots more).
- There's a display for individual hand histories. I've also implemented a condensed mode like bisonbisons converter. I've made it as similar to his as possible, since people have complained it doesn't work too well but obviously posters on here as used to the format. Of course if I ever sell this software I won't copy his format, it was just for convenience for this release. There's an option to copy the hand history onto the clipboard, preformatted for the 2+2 board.
- Allins/Luckometer. When you import SNGs, it searches for all your allin situations and calculates $EV using ICM and works out the difference between that and your actual results in the hand, so you get a $EV - $AV value for each, giving an idea of how much luck cost or gained you after all the chips went in. My enumerator is currently very unoptimised so this takes ages for all the hands, but runs in the background so you can still use the rest of the program while its calculating.
- Theres a simple tool added for calculating rough probabilities of ITM/OOTM streaks given ITM% and number of SNGs.
Alright, post way too long already. Would be glad of any feedback or suggestions for the program, though as I said I'll be too busy to work much on it over the coming weeks.
Oh and one final thing. The domain for the download is only just registered. It's working fine here, but it's possible it may not have yet propagated to the USA, in which case give it 24 hours and it should be up.