Poker Analytics Blog

Sessions default parameters & Geolocation

From time to time we’re being asked how to change the defaults of each session.

When talking parametrization of the app, adding options, our answer is often “meh…”. We’d rather not add more buttons, more stuff in the user interface.

1. Automatic defaults

So how does this translate to the default values of your session when you create a cash game session or a tournament?

The way this work is that we’re grabbing a number of your latest sessions from your current location and looking at your preferred style of play. What’s important there is the current location. We’re using geolocation to find where you find where you’re located when starting a session. Note: geolocation data are stored only on your device, we do not store any geolocation on our servers. Actually, you might not be aware but we do not own any servers.

So, if you haven’t enabled geolocation when you were first asked to, you should really activate it as it will give you way better results for your default parameters!

To do that, go on your device and then Settings > Privacy & Security > Location services.

Now the “little” issue is that all your older locations aren’t geolocated. So next time you go at your favorite casino, edit that location and update its geolocation! Go in More > Settings > Locations to do that.

Side note: Having geolocated location will open you the world of the beautiful Reports > Locations report, where you’ll see each location played on a map!

2. Duplicates

You might not be aware of this but it’s possible to duplicate sessions in the app. Simply long tap on a session row, that’s it!

We feel this dual system should cover most of your needs. If you have any questions or feedback, contact us!

Poker Analytics 5 Open Beta

Hello,

we’re finally there! Today is a big step towards the release of the amazing version 5, and today we’re going into beta!

How to join? We’re opening the beta to everyone, for a limited time though. We expect to run it for a little less than a month, and during that time you’ll be able to enjoy all the capabilities of the app!

So how…?

Step 0

If you’re a version 3 user and have iCloud enabled, please disable it until having everything up and running on version 5.

Step 1

Make a back-up, even multiples backups.

How to backup? There are many options available to you:

Backup your iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
Backup your data using iCloud: Inside Poker Analytics, check that you’ve enabled iCloud in More > Settings
Send yourself an XML file by mail using the Export, also in More > Settings

Please choose a couple of options. There shouldn’t be any problem but we don’t want to take any risks, neither you or us. (Side note: you should do backups as frequently as possible even when using the official App Store version: broken phones, kid deleting the app, etc…)

Step 2

Follow the registration process using this link:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/N8HWA0Ti

Step 3

One last thing before letting you go! Please send us your feedback, we just want to know what’s your opinion of the version!

Mass Transfer

Hey guys,

we’re happy to announce the MASS TRANSFER operation. We apologize in advance to current subscribers as this won’t really concern you, BUT you might have a friend interested though, AND you might really want him to use Poker Analytics, therefore please let him know!

MASS TRANSFER is a limited offer we have for all iOS poker tracker users. To celebrate the arrival of Poker Analytics 5 later this year (hopefully), today we give you the chance to win a free year of Poker Analytics. At this point we support the import of many trackers so importing your data will most likely be possible.

Participating is very simple: send us a mail to masstransfer@pokeranalytics.net.

Please join:

Your full name
A photo of your id
Proof that you currently own a tracker: a combination of receipt, screenshot or photo of your current tracker
(optional) Why you’d like to try our app

We have a limited supply of codes to distribute, but we’re confident that we’ll have enough for every valid submissions. In case of limited supply, we’ll subjectively select submissions based on their content. You’re also eligible only if not currently a Poker Analytics subscriber.

The operation is limited until the end of 2018.

Wishing you the best at the tables!

Poker Analytics 4.8

Hello! It’s already time for another little but packed release, so here we go!

Improved hand history animated exports

We’ve made a couple of really important enhancements for the GIF & Video exports:

The format is a real square, so it’s gonna look way better when you share the videos on Instagram for example
We’ve added the size of the bets for much better readability

Here is the result:

Tom Dwan loses a huge $2.35 million pot against Paul Phua. The currency is the Korean Won.

Improved hand history reading mode

We’re now displaying cute little cards when you read a hand:

Apple Watch & Player Notes

You can now read your player notes directly on your wrist if you’re a lucky Apple Watch user:

Some of Nicholas tendencies on the Apple Watch

Other new features

Asked by some of dear users:

You can now export your operations as CSV
You can change the language of the app

We’ve also pretty much fixed the whole textual export of hand history, as it only work for mails.

This is it for 4.8! And as usual, feedback and comments on the App Store are strongly encouraged as they really help us improve the app! Have a great day!

Poker Analytics 4.7

After the bad news that happened in order to get to release this update, we’re still upset but we really want to bring you more and more great content. So today for this 4.7 we have a feature live players should love, a feature online users asked for, and a few more! So here we go:

Hand History GIF & Video

You can now export your hand histories in GIF or video to share them anywhere you want!

Do you recall who made that sick call to win the tournament? Hint: this did not happen at the Bellagio!

Simply tap the export button in the toolbar of the hand history and select GIF or Video!

How to export a hand history as a GIF or a video!

Online results

We’ve been asked many times if it was possible to have the buy-in and the stack to enter your online results. As players often multitable and auto-rebuy when playing online, it’s difficult to track how much is being buyed-in, that’s why we originally chose to simply give the option to enter a net result.

Nevertheless we’ve heard your comments, so now you’ll have the option to choose your favorite method to set a result in the bankroll screen.

But that’s not it! Not only do we offer the buy-in + stack option, but also the bankroll difference option! So what’s that?

When multitabling online, poker sites doesn’t always show you your session result, so you’re not exactly sure how much you won or lost. That’s why we’re giving you the option to simply enter your online bankroll value at the end of your session, and Poker Analytics does the rest. It computes the difference between your bankroll at the start and the end of session, and gives you your session result! Please note that it requires you to carefully record all movement on your bankroll that might alter its amount.

Note that you’ll also be able to change the method session by session if you have specific needs.

Custom fields Duplicate

Session duplicating is a powerful tool, especially for online MTT and Sit&Go players.

Until now, custom field values weren’t copied when duplicating because we never know for sure if it makes sense to copy that information, only you can know. Now you can specify for each custom field if it should be copied or not. Simply edit your custom field and you’ll find a new “Copy on duplicate” option.

Refactoring

As you may have already noticed, the addition of the previous features required us to change the bankroll and custom fields editing screens.

We’ve also refactored a couple more screen for your pleasure, and ours.

The operations list is more detailed and each operation shows their comment and type.

Refactoring the bankroll screen lead to refactor the currency selection, so we’ve put the most used currencies at the top of the screen to cover most usage.

And that’s it! You can now update your apps, and then as always we love to hear from you, please tell us how we do, whatever it’s good or bad…We need to hear your feedback!