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After a final too-small-a-raise because it was a turbo table and I just wanted to get something down, I cracked and downloaded Auto Hot Key and PokerPad. Maybe it was late at night, but it took me quite a while to work out how everything worked with AutoHotKey (in the sense that it was working, but I didn't realize that it was working). "Ease of use" can sometimes be taken too far I feel. When you are used to the old-fashioned line editors and the like, all this modern stuff is far too user-friendly.
First problem was that the program I used failed to open up the NOIQ site as promised. It opened up Party, Stars and Full Tilt, but not the IP Network. The path was fine. A 20-minute look through the source code revealed that a "default" path of C:\Program Files\ was running in front of the path that the user can see. This would be fine, were it not for the fact that the IPoker Network just installs into C:\Poker. I hesitated to rip out this bit of "helpful" script (mainly because that would necessitate rewriting the paths for all the poker sites that do install into C:\Program Files). Instead, I just moved the IPoker sites over to the C:\Program Files folder.
I then toddled around on a single table to see if I could get things to work. It was late, so perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that the whole experiment was slightly uncomfortable. The system uses a large number of HotKey combinations and, while I got the simple ones working (e.g., "Fold" and "Call" and "show last hand report") I didn't get the hang of any of the raising buttons. Then again, I only had a couple of hands worth raising, and in a panic I resorted to the mouse. Unfortunately, even with NumLock on, with AutoHotKey and PokerPad running, the Number Pad seemed to ignore me. So I was frantically moving the little pointer to the raise amount I wanted.
Then I noticed that PokerTracker wasn't updating properly. Oh fuck. Of course. It's looking for files in the old folder location. A quick re-jig there, and were were up and running. I haven't tested it on Betfred yet (because it only gives you "one" IPoker location, and I'm using that for NoIQ), but I suspect that this is just a matter of opening and closing the site, and nothing to do with the actual playing.
If I can get the hang of it, it should be useful, because it has hotkeys for half-pot, 3/4 pot, 0.9 pot, pot, 2x pot and all-in . Getting seriously used to it would take some time and practice, but I would think that playing more tables would be considerably easier once that was done.
( hands )
First problem was that the program I used failed to open up the NOIQ site as promised. It opened up Party, Stars and Full Tilt, but not the IP Network. The path was fine. A 20-minute look through the source code revealed that a "default" path of C:\Program Files\ was running in front of the path that the user can see. This would be fine, were it not for the fact that the IPoker Network just installs into C:\Poker. I hesitated to rip out this bit of "helpful" script (mainly because that would necessitate rewriting the paths for all the poker sites that do install into C:\Program Files). Instead, I just moved the IPoker sites over to the C:\Program Files folder.
I then toddled around on a single table to see if I could get things to work. It was late, so perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that the whole experiment was slightly uncomfortable. The system uses a large number of HotKey combinations and, while I got the simple ones working (e.g., "Fold" and "Call" and "show last hand report") I didn't get the hang of any of the raising buttons. Then again, I only had a couple of hands worth raising, and in a panic I resorted to the mouse. Unfortunately, even with NumLock on, with AutoHotKey and PokerPad running, the Number Pad seemed to ignore me. So I was frantically moving the little pointer to the raise amount I wanted.
Then I noticed that PokerTracker wasn't updating properly. Oh fuck. Of course. It's looking for files in the old folder location. A quick re-jig there, and were were up and running. I haven't tested it on Betfred yet (because it only gives you "one" IPoker location, and I'm using that for NoIQ), but I suspect that this is just a matter of opening and closing the site, and nothing to do with the actual playing.
If I can get the hang of it, it should be useful, because it has hotkeys for half-pot, 3/4 pot, 0.9 pot, pot, 2x pot and all-in . Getting seriously used to it would take some time and practice, but I would think that playing more tables would be considerably easier once that was done.
( hands )
