Useful software idea = PokerPeek

[BlueBear]

Hi,

Information is important in poker and all poker sites do not automatically display mucked hole cards that are played to the showdown. For most of us, we can e-mail hand histories to have a quick peek at the these cards during play. It would be great if someone could design a software to automatically request that single hand history **during play itself**, and to display a automatic playback of that hand history (say on a corner of the screen) so that we can know those mucked holecards almost instantly (without the hassle of requesting a hand history and going through the text).

The difference between this idea and pokertracker is that the task of displaying the mucked hole cards is automated during gameplay itself. Anybody would benefit from such a wealth of information.

Sounds like an absolute winning idea to me and i just giving away for free to the poker community as I'm not really skilled in working on these type of software projects. I would find this program extremely useful (especially in quick short-handed play) and will pay good money for this.

BlueBear

[HavanaBanana]

At planetpoker you can see the hands instantly with images not letters.

[Alobar]

screw that, I dont want it to be easy for the fish to know what I had when I mucked. And besides its always fun when someone mucks like A3o and then says that you got lucky cuz they had aces, and then you tell them what they really had and they accuse you of cheating [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[BlueBear]

Well, we don't have to tell the fishies. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Anyway, any major software developments (like pokertracker) does nothing but increase the gap in skill range between fishies and good players in my opinion.

[morgant]

play at ultimate bet, they have this feature

[MrDannimal]

Correct. You can request the history, it shows up abou t5-10 seconds later (unless it's an old table with large # of played hands, or the site is lagging, but about 90% of the time it pops right up), and it will tell you the hands of anyone who made it to showdown, mucked or otherwise.

I miss this feature very much on other sites.

[Nottom]

I was kind of disappointed that the new Party instant hand history didn't show the hole cards.

[Aragorn]

I think a site should have a check box called "Show cards". In a B&M site, any player in the hand at the showdown has a right to ask to see any hand that is not folded. I don't see why an online player shouldn't have the same right at the end of the hand.

[Jim Easton]

I like the idea, but I'm not a programmer. I remembered a post from a few months ago about a replayer for Party. There is a free replayer* at Party Hand Replayer. I regularly order hand histories to see opponents hands (in addition to ordering in bulk for PokerTracker). This replayer is much easier than reading the hands into PokerTracker and replaying them there. I also found this idea easier than reading through the hand histories and I found I was able to make more notes. Thanks for the idea, BlueBear.

*I have no connection/association with this site or any of the people associated with it.

[Chris Parsley]

oh NO HE DOES NOT!
There was a MAJOR writeup in Card Player about this, seeing a non-winning hole cards gives away free information the player is OUTERWISE NOT ENTITLED TO!

Seeing hole cards IS NOT A RIGHT!