Poker Edge explanation of database coverage

[JayCo]

FWIW, their reply to an email below

I'm not sure how consistent this is with what people have seen to date in the DB and/or what this implies about the fraction of hands they are in fact capturing.


-----Original Message-----
From: sales@poker-edge.com [mailto:sales@poker-edge.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:02 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Interested in Poker-Edge

I understand your concern. My explanation is that we are a very new
product, and to be honest we have only been collecting hand histories for
the last 3 weeks. We are collecting them at an enormous rate, however,
and that explains the large size of our DB with respect to how long we
have been collecting.

Thanks,
PokerEdge Sales

> Well, I've played well over 20,000 hands at Party, so if you don't have
> me in your DB, then I'm skeptical of the value of the product.
>
> How have the hand histories been captured that you could have possibly
> missed my play over the last 2+ years?
>
> Thanks,
> Jayco
>

[ctv1116]

Is the Poker-Edge website down right now because "bandwidth exceeded" or is it just me?

[JayCo]

No idea, since I didn't pony up the fee since they didn't have my play in there, even though (as I should have noted in my post) I definitely have played in the last 3 weeks (mix of $15-$30 LHE and NL SNGs).

[ctv1116]

No, I mean actually go to the poker-edge website (http://www.poker-edge.com). Is their site still up?

[JayCo]

Sorry, my bad. Got the same error message as you, it seems:

"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."

[HUSKER'66]

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Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."



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That gives us a shot of confidence.

[ctv1116]

Party probably flooded it with requests. I guess it didn't need to change its software after all to derail this threat...

[Sponger15SB]

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Party probably flooded it with requests. I guess it didn't need to change its software after all to derail this threat...

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hmm, if i was party poker this would be totally something i would do, if it was them, smart move on their part, now can i get my damn $9.95 back, jk i'm sure the site will be back up soon.

[ctv1116]

how exactly does the software work?

[Sponger15SB]

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how exactly does the software work?

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they have a "farm" [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] of computers collecting data...duh