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justT · #11 09-02-2005, 11:37 PM

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I think it would be cool to take different winning players and overlay there graphs to see if any trends emerge.
~Justin

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I've been thinking about this for a while, and it would indeed be very interesting.

Another option for the macro would be to program it in Excel using VBA. It wouldn't be as pretty as perl, but it wouldn't be difficult, the advantage is the macro could directly create the chart in excel. I'll spend a while looking at it any give you a shout later when I know more.

justT · #12 09-02-2005, 11:41 PM

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i would be more interested in a program that showed how often you were ehead on the flop when you get stacked.

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So you want a bad beat finder? What would you do with it?

JohnFR · #13 09-02-2005, 11:41 PM

My coding experience with Visual Basic is very limited, so it would be great if you got it going using that, C seems like a hack, perl would be very pretty, but like I said I haven't used string manipulation in perl in years. Plus I don't have a windows compiler of perl(dunno if I have ever seen one actually)

Cheers!
John

adanthar · #14 09-02-2005, 11:52 PM

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So you want a bad beat finder? What would you do with it?

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More like an 'am I playing like a donk today' finder.

IHateKeithSmart · #15 09-03-2005, 12:00 AM

Yeah, I'd think VBA would be the way to go since most people will have excel (at least more people would have that than perl). Of course, a cgi would be cool on a web page somewhere that did it for you. Maybe I'll dork with the excel stuff for a bit.

Jurollo · #16 09-03-2005, 08:22 PM

JustT has gotten a crude Excel macro in the works, looks to be a good start, it would be nice to get something like this done, I have some web space I could put it up on and I am sure others do too.
~Justin

fatdave · #17 09-03-2005, 09:05 PM

This would be very easy to do in PHP... just have it monitor your hand history file/folder, and everytime it's update, it updates your stack in a separate text file or database.

You could then use the GDLIB functions to plot it all out for you.

In fact, I know I could personally do this myself... and I think I will, because patterns fascinate me.

Give me a few days, and I'll write up a self-contained script that will monitor it, graph it and spit out some analysis.

EDIT: If I get this to work, you do realize it will also function as a pretty good real-time "M" tracker.... but I'll get a working version, uh.. working... and then you can throw me some ideas and enhancements.

Jurollo · #18 09-03-2005, 09:07 PM

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This would be very easy to do in PHP... just have it monitor your hand history file/folder, and everytime it's update, it updates your stack in a separate text file or database.

You could then use the GDLIB functions to plot it all out for you.

In fact, I know I could personally do this myself... and I think I will, because patterns fascinate me.

Give me a few days, and I'll write up a self-contained script that will monitor it, graph it and spit out some analysis.

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You would be DA man!
~Justin

justT · #19 09-03-2005, 09:39 PM

fatdave's stuff sounds cool, I wish I understood it.

I've been playing with my tool, um my charting tool that is. The charts are quite revealing.

fatdave · #20 09-04-2005, 04:39 AM

So... here is a prototype. It works pretty well, now all I need to do is:

a) clean it up
b) add features
c) make it look pretty

I coded the functionality "Stack Size Per Hand", but that is not shown in the image below, because I think "Stack Size Relative to Blind Size" is more important.

I apologize for the size (visually) of the images, I still need to find a good scale to size the images.

Right now, it only does Party Poker MTTs, because that's typically what I play.

So, now that I've spent several hours working on this... what do you think of it so far? Does anyone know if there are other programs (ie PokerTracker) that already do this specific thing?

I'm sure it's also very easy and very pretty to do it in Excel... but I like to do things the hard way, I guess.

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