Custom Script: BigPotGrabber

As the number of tables I'm playing increases it gets really hard to pay attention to pots that I'm not involved with. Since the most crucial mistakes are the ones made for big bets, I try to pay attention to how people play big pots. So I wrote a script to help me with this, basically it grabs the HH from the big pots on all the tables and puts them in a list so I can review them when I'm not in a hand.

Currently only Party Poker is supported. I'm gonna try to add more sites but it's not a huge priority as I play Party almost exclusively these days. If anyone wants to add support for other sites feel free, let's try to make this forum come to life!

As always, comments and suggestions very welcome.

Code/instructions here: http://www.overcards.com/wiki/moin.cgi/BigPotGrabber

OMG PLZ MAKE THIS FOR STARS ILL PAY YOU. SERIOUSLY

Heh, I figured Stars support would be on the wish list. I'll look into it.

I'll pay you $20 an hour to do it immediately. If that's not good enough name a price and ill consider it.

Awesome idea. I'll donate for Full Tilt support. I'm not paying you by the hour though you lazy bastard.

great idea. full tilt support would be awesome.

Okay, new version with added Stars support is up on the wiki. Make sure you use PT's Move Processed Hands feature so that only the active session files are in the HH folder. I'll fix this for a later update. For now, try it out and bring bug reports and suggestions to this thread.

I want to eventually make it convert the hand history similar to how the FTR Hand Converter does it to make it easier to read when playing. Other stuff I've thought about is a button to copy a (possibly converted) hand to the clipboard for easy posting on the forum, and a button to clear all the hands from the list. I'll look at FTP support, should be easy and fast now that I know how to do it.

I'm not gonna ask for donations, but if you insist you can probably guess my Stars s/n . Instead I'd like it if you told other people about the tools of poker forum so that we can get more traffic in here. This will lead to other good ideas and good poker software, which will of course benefit us all.

Thanx

I'll put it on my sig?

Does anyone ever read your stupid posts ISF?





















j/k that would be awesome

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Does anyone ever read your stupid posts ISF?





















j/k that would be awesome

LOL

How do you make it so only active session files are in the HH folder?

Go to PT > Auto Import Stars Hand histories > Move processed files to this folder and choose a folder to have the old session files moved to.

It doesnt seem to be working... but idk yet.

Try to set threshold = 1, that way every pot will be seen as a "big pot" and you should quickly see if it picks up any hands. Make sure you set the starsHistoryPath correctly ie C:\Program Files\PokerStars\HandHistory\redgrape

If you can't get it to work, set "debug_enabled= 1" and mail me the debug.txt file on {pm for email info}

edit: figured I'd remove email addy

It's working now. I didn't type in my screenname in the path in the ahk.

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Make sure you use PT's Move Processed Hands feature so that only the active session files are in the HH folder.

How do you do this?

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Go to PT > Auto Import Stars Hand histories > Move processed files to this folder and choose a folder to have the old session files moved to.

Read the thread? lol

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Go to PT > Auto Import Stars Hand histories > Move processed files to this folder and choose a folder to have the old session files moved to.

Read the thread? lol

Oh, lol i did that already. For some reason PT didn't export the files to the other folder, now it did.

OMG THIS IS SO AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Report: Working perfectly
No glitches at all, the thing is exactly what i wanted.

Possible new features: Just possibilities
1. Maybe auto pop up the big pot HH? At first glance it may seem like this would get annoying but i'd like to see it.
2. HH's go away window as soon as u look at it?

Okay, new version is up on the wiki. This is what's new:
1. FullTilt support
2. Option to auto-open new hands when grabbed
3. Option to auto-remove hand from list when HH-window is closed
4. Button to clear hand list

Is number 2 and 3 what you wanted, ISF? If not, please elaborate.

I did not test it very thoroughly, so if anyone comes across a bug let me know in this thread. Thx.

OMG EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED YOU ARE GOD.

I sent you a gift.

8 tabling is a breeze now! increased my hourly rate.

HalvSame = God

Thanks for the praise and gifts guys. The coding was really not hard at all, but it's always fun when a simple little idea works out. I can't wait to get back to my desktop setup to try out 8-tabling with this thing, sadly I'll be stuck on my 12" laptop for a few weeks more.

I'll be looking at support for the iPoker network next. Keep the suggestions coming, and for the love of God stop CAPSLOCKAMENTS-ing my precious thread .

Keep coming up with ideas! maybe u can teach people to do scripts or point them in the right direction?

Originally Posted by HalvSame

I'll be looking at support for the iPoker network next.

Nice choice!
I'd love to test this out on iPoker.

oh man this is too good to be true.

wow this is sweet

wow really this is awesome

This thing is the shit. Thanx dude. I managed to get the Stars BetPot script working too, so I can bet size with the mouse wheel. So cool.

Can u make one for Bodog?

Originally Posted by DonkDonk

Can u make one for Bodog?

I'm not playing on Bodog anymore (if someone can tell me how to get reliable rb for an existing account, pm's are welcome). When I played on bodog there was no proper hand histories, but I believe you can get good HHs in real time using Dogwatch now, right? If you mail me some sample histories ({pm for address}) I will put it on the todo list. It will be a low priority though, since I dont play there anymore myself.

New version will be up soon, with option to display HH's similar(-ish) to the FTR Hand Converter output. iPoker writes HH's in xml, so I'm gonna see if I can find a good ahk xml parser to integrate into the script before attempting to write my own. I'm also gonna try and spend a little more time on the poker tables rather than writing code . This means that iPoker support will be postponed for a while.

Thanks again for the kind feedback. As for teaching someone to write scripts, take a look at the tutorials on autohotkey.com. If someone wants to help add to the script code, the wiki page is open for editing by anyone.

Nice one halvsame, Is a crypto version possible? I haven't even figured out a way to datamine crypto yet so if someone knows how to do that let me know, cheers!

Crypto writes HH's to files on disk, right? Should be possible, but will not be a priority because I dont play there much either. Send some sample HH's and I'll put it on the to-do.

This idea is awesome!
Prima support would be nice

Yeah, Prima is on the to-do. Prima uses a database instead of HH-files though, I have no idea how to access those from ahk.

Edit: Using the Prima chat box will work, I'll add Prima support in v1.4. v1.3 with hand converter style and Party HH-files instead of chat box should be up tomorrow.

New version up on the wiki. Added option of converting the hh, plus some other stuff.



I'm pretty much satisfied with the functionality of the script at this point, now I'm just going to try and add support for more sites and fix some minor stuff. If anyone have any suggestions for new features, let's hear 'em!

This is a really mundane and seemingly retarded suggestion but.... can you either.
1. Put the table name on the HH
2. Have the HH pop up in front of the table it was from? (obviously much harder)

When tables are popping up left and right, figuring out the table takes like 5 minutes.
Thanks.

Uhhh, the script isnt bringing any HH's, is it just me?

The window keeps poping up to the forefront of my screen but there are no HH's on it.

Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan

This is a really mundane and seemingly retarded suggestion but.... can you either.
1. Put the table name on the HH
2. Have the HH pop up in front of the table it was from? (obviously much harder)

Yea, will do something like this in the next version. Both your suggestions are really easy to do, but I kindof want a middle ground between them. I'm thinking maybe clicking a button that activates the corresponding table or moves the HH in front of it. I'm gonna play around with a few options and put it in the next version.

Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan

Uhhh, the script isnt bringing any HH's, is it just me?
...
The window keeps poping up to the forefront of my screen but there are no HH's on it.

This is weird. I know about one bug where the pot size isn't read properly when there is a "," in the pot size, but this should only happen in 1k+ pots, which aren't seen that often at 200NL. Also, if the HH window keeps popping up then the pot size is probably read correctly. Are both windows popping up, or just one?

Set debug_enabled = 1, and look at the debug.txt file. Is it writing HH's in there? If it is, then the hh's are properly read and there is an issue with displaying them.

Does it work as before when using convert = 0?

D'oh. I must have broken the Auto Popup New Hand feature so that if you dont use it the hand wont show up. Also the convert feature doesnt seem to be working for stars either. I could've sworned I tested that one properly.

Solution: use autoOpenHH = 1 and convert = 0 until I get a fix up tomorrow.

AP support by any chance?

GET ERRR DONE

Christ-O-Rama I've forgotten all about this. Will try to get it done tonight, if I can't then it'll have to wait until this weekend.

Thank You Halv! Yes, awaiting AP now too!

Still no update....

Relax your mind, young padawan. New version is up on the wiki as of ten minutes ago. Double click the HH text to move the HH on top of the table it came from. If you want the table name in the window title instead it is an easy change, I just thought it would be more funky and less cluttered this way.

Prima support didn't make it into this version, that and fixing a bug on party that makes it not recognize all pots is on the top of the list for next version. I'm planning to do iPoker after Prima, but support for other sites will be far away (if ever) because I don't really play anywhere else.

Adapting the script for other sites isn't very hard to do though. As long as the site provides a fairly simple way to read HH's (ie text file or easily accessible chat window) someone should be able to look at the existing code and add similar code for the new site. If someone wants to have a go and gets stuck in my poorly written code, let me know and I'll try to help.

8-)

Thank you so much Halv, you were like my personal script writer for this one.
-Danny

hey this is awesome, but i can't get it to work perfectly.

i'm using stars, and the HH, when converted, is always trimmed, regardless if there is a 1 or 0 in the settings.

i'm not sure what the problem is, because if i set it to "0" for convert, everything turns out fine...


thanks

Yeah sadly i have the same problem i was just too lazy to say it.
I'm just using the unconverted one.

Is Ultimate Bet supported?

Ok,

in that case, can we get the converted version NOT to be trimmed? Not sure why you want it trimmed, because i thought the reason you converted was to allow easier reading of the hand progress...by trimming, you kind of negate that don't you think?

thanks, also, on in your forum post, i think there are other users who would love to see, non-trimmed converted.

thanks!

Okay, I haven't had time to look at it yet, but I think this should work:

In the ConvertStarsFTP(hh) function, replace this line
hh := TrimStarsFTP(hh)

with this:
if convert
hh := TrimStarsFTP(hh)

This should make converted hands to be either trimmed or untrimmed based on the "trim" option.

I'm not gonna update it on the wiki yet because I haven't had time to test it, but if I understand the problem correctly then it should work. I'm not sure I understand the problem though; I wouldn't want to use an untrimmed converted version myself.

I'll try to get a new version with this plus a fix for the latest Party Poker upgrade up some time this week.

litetruck: UB isn't supported as of yet. As I said in an earlier post:

I'm planning to do iPoker after Prima, but support for other sites will be far away (if ever) because I don't really play anywhere else.

I'm not gonna be doing either iPoker or Prima for a couple of weeks, and barring some unusal event I will leave adding support for other sites up to someone else. The beauty of open source!

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Okay, I haven't had time to look at it yet, but I think this should work:

In the ConvertStarsFTP(hh) function, replace this line
hh := TrimStarsFTP(hh)

with this:
if convert
hh := TrimStarsFTP(hh)

This should make converted hands to be either trimmed or untrimmed based on the "trim" option.

I'm not gonna update it on the wiki yet because I haven't had time to test it, but if I understand the problem correctly then it should work. I'm not sure I understand the problem though; I wouldn't want to use an untrimmed converted version myself.

I'll try to get a new version with this plus a fix for the latest Party Poker upgrade up some time this week.

litetruck: UB isn't supported as of yet. As I said in an earlier post:

I'm planning to do iPoker after Prima, but support for other sites will be far away (if ever) because I don't really play anywhere else.

I'm not gonna be doing either iPoker or Prima for a couple of weeks, and barring some unusal event I will leave adding support for other sites up to someone else. The beauty of open source!

hm...maybe trimmed means something different from you and me. I assumed trimmed meant an easy HH with no betting history, just PF action, river cards, and winner.

Essentially, a converted "trimmed" version looked like this.

4 calls
AJKQA
xxx wins

That's pretty much every hand i saw when converted and trimmed. Today, i tried using text with and without trim, and i'm kind of thinking trim only has to do with how the HH is printed out (size/dimensions) and has nothing to do with the HH itself...

if that's the case, then your conversion is having some problems with stars!

thanks

Originally Posted by effang

hm...maybe trimmed means something different from you and me. I assumed trimmed meant an easy HH with no betting history, just PF action, river cards, and winner

Essentially, a converted "trimmed" version looked like this.

4 calls
AJKQA
xxx wins.

For me, trimming a HH means taking out stuff like chat, "sitting out"-messages, time-out stuff etc.

Do you mean that you want to be able to remove postflop action from the hand history? I can probably make this available in a later version, though I don't see why you would want that option.

Originally Posted by effang

That's pretty much every hand i saw when converted and trimmed. Today, i tried using text with and without trim, and i'm kind of thinking trim only has to do with how the HH is printed out (size/dimensions) and has nothing to do with the HH itself...

if that's the case, then your conversion is having some problems with stars!

^^ This is pretty much what a converted hh should look like in the current version. If your hands don't look like this, please send a screenshot and a few hand histories to halvsame/at/gmail/dot/com and I'll have a look at it.

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Do you mean that you want to be able to remove postflop action from the hand history? I can probably make this available in a later version, though I don't see why you would want that option.


^^ This is pretty much what a converted hh should look like in the current version. If your hands don't look like this, please send a screenshot and a few hand histories to halvsame/at/gmail/dot/com and I'll have a look at it.

no, i want exactly what you have pictured there. but i just can't get that. i don't care about trimmed/untrimmed, i just need to see the betting action.

Looks like some strange bug has found it's way into it. I've gotten some fresh HH's to test with, hopefully I'll have a fix out some time this weekend.

Originally Posted by HalvSame

Looks like some strange bug has found it's way into it. I've gotten some fresh HH's to test with, hopefully I'll have a fix out some time this weekend.

awesome, thanks. this is the log, if you're interested.

10:44:51: Settings:
threshold: 10
backgroundColor: white
textColor: black
starsHistoryPath: C:\Documents and Settings\efang\Desktop\stars\hand
ftpHistoryPath: C:\Program Files\Full Tilt Poker\HandHistory\YourNickHere
autoOpenHH: 1
autoRemoveHand: 0
trim: 0
convert: 1
foldColor: gray
betColor: red
raiseColor: red
10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9692176087
10:44:52: PokerStars Game #9692176087: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2007/05/01 - 00:17:33 (ET)
Table 'Flora IV' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: freepokerand ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: AngryWhite ($27.40 in chips)
Seat 3: MoneyBaggz8 ($25.25 in chips)
Seat 4: rainbow_J ($2.90 in chips)
Seat 5: Tooth ($25.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Steel_Rain69 ($29.90 in chips)
Seat 7: SlawKing420 ($16.65 in chips)
Seat 8: marsram ($32.70 in chips)
Seat 9: nfonz ($24.75 in chips)
nfonz: posts small blind $0.10
freepokerand: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to freepokerand [2s 6h]
AngryWhite: folds
MoneyBaggz8: folds
rainbow_J: folds
Tooth: folds
Steel_Rain69: folds
SlawKing420: folds
marsram: calls $0.25
nfonz: calls $0.15
freepokerand: checks
*** FLOP *** [6s 3s 7h]
nfonz: checks
freepokerand: bets $0.75
marsram: raises $0.75 to $1.50
nfonz: folds
freepokerand: calls $0.75
*** TURN *** [6s 3s 7h] [9c]
freepokerand: checks
marsram: bets $1
freepokerand: folds
marsram collected $3.60 from pot
marsram: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.75 | Rake $0.15
Board [6s 3s 7h 9c]
Seat 1: freepokerand (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: AngryWhite folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: MoneyBaggz8 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: rainbow_J folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Tooth folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Steel_Rain69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: SlawKing420 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: marsram (button) collected ($3.60)
Seat 9: nfonz (small blind) folded on the Flop

10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9694369428
10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9694376705
10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9694381551
10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9694385866
10:44:52: Read hand PokerStars Game #9694386976

an easy solution might be the fact that the 1.4 version actually has the 1.3 version as it's download. and i have tried copy/paste the text in the colored box, but it still comes out with the same problem.

Okay, new version is up on the wiki here. Please download it and let me know if it's still not working.

Version 1.51, May 14th 2007:
Added Prima support
Added Always On Top and Transparent options
Added "beep on new hand" option
Fixed bug that made preflop action disappear in the converted PokerStars HH's (thanks, Jack!)
Fixed some minor issues on Party

I cannot it to work with full tilt. Ive moved all the hand histories using pokertracker move hand history feature and set the threshold to 1 and still nothing.

Hmm, that's weird. Did you set the ftpHistoryPath correctly, ie ftpHistoryPath = C:\Program Files\Full Tilt Poker\HandHistory\dmsrolla06 ?

Ill just say yes i did that, and it wasnt working and now all of the sudden it is...

MAGIC

Just started using this. Halvsame.

Its not showing the cards of the big pots for the board or the players.

Im also having problems with your FT auto reloader. When i double click the auto reloader i popup comes up that says

Error: failed attempt to launch program or document: Action <FullTiltReloader.ahk>

Specifically the system cannot find the file specified

021: Run, FullTiltReloader.ahk

I'm gonna get a fix out for the BPG bug in a day or two. The same thing that fixed Stars broke FTP.

As for the autoreloader, that thing is pretty much screwed after the resizable tables happened. I should edit the wiki to make it clear. You can make it run by renaming the FullTiltReloader-1.0.ahk file in the script folder to FullTiltReloader.ahk (I made a stupid typo and never got around to fixing it, lol) but that won't make it work. I think updating all the images, search positions and button names is needed to make it work again, and I just don't have the time/motivation to do it. As always, anyone with the skill and will can give it a go.

I think you can still run the FullTiltReloader.ahk (notice no "auto") for one-click manual reloading.

Yes i have been using that. Im really anxious to start using the BPG though, seems like a pretty invaluable tool.

Btw, for now you should be able to set convert=0 and just look at the HH text for the big pots.

Ok ty

Version 1.6 is up on the wiki: http://www.overcards.com/wiki/moin.cgi/BigPotGrabber

*Added iPoker support, makes the script dependent on XMLRead.ahk (included in script)
*Split SpotStarsFTP and ConvertStarsFTP into seperate functions for each room. TrimStarsFTP seems to work fine for both sites.
*Fixed preflop action in converted FTP HH's.
*Fixed bug that removed the latest added HH when an already open HH window was closed.
*Fixed bug introduced by the latest FTP update causing all pots to be deemed "big".

There's still a bug in the Prima convertion that causes the HH to be pretty messed up sometimes, gonna try and get this fixed for the next version. Not really sure if this was present in the last version, anyone notice strange behaviour on Prima before?

Halv. I started using ahk's since I now have a machine fast enough to run them with PT, PaHud and everything else I usually use. So I may have to bump a few threads that I have questions about. First off I read the whole thread, and seen nothing, but is there anyway to have the Party HH's to not be grabbed when uncalled bets are part of the "Big Pot"?

Meaning this

Trainer Jyms raises $5
villain RR $18
Trainer Jyms All In for $145
Villian folds.

Big pot grabber sees this as a $150+ pot. I know Party calls this trainerJyms wins $163 and that may be all she wrote, but if it's fixable it would be nice.

I'm a bit backed up on the scripting front, but I'll try to take a look at it when I get my lazy ass around to working on BPG again. I don't think it's that easily fixable, gonna take a look at the Party HH's and think about it though.

As an aside, I actually think I prefer having uncalled bets in there as I find it useful to know who uses big bets alot to put pressure on people.

You may be right. It's info when they do play like that. No rush to have it as an option. Just a thought.