Universal Replayer

A Free Hand History Tool

Wednesday 26 July 2006.

This is the english translation of the one of my blog’s articles, dedicated to the Popopop Player. I’m french, and my english skills are, -good for my bankroll- a lot worse than my poker/programming skills. I therefore apologize for my (future) multiples language horrors. You’ll find in this page the purpose of this software, its main features and a couple screenshots. If you’re desperate to get it and can’t afford wasting your time reading this, you can go straight to the download page. Just follow the link below.

The Replayer has now its own WebSite : HERE

Presentation

The Popopop Player is a Free Hand History Management and Replaying tool. It was designed to be universal, translating every HH file into a single standard format, unlinked to any Poker Room ( the standard format use an XML grammar).

Standard

This player is still a bit young, and, as i’m typing this article, it is only compatible with Poker Star, Party Poker, FullTilt, Everest Poker (since version 1.1), every room of the Cryptologic network, the OnGame network, and the iPoker network ( Titan Poker, Noble Poker, Poker770, etc..). It works with any HH of theses rooms, meaning CG’s, Sng’s, and larger tournament as well, as long as it is about Hold’Em, Omaha, or Omaha Hi/Lo. My objective is to be able to release quite soon many other compatibilities. The software was designed in consequence, around a main engine, and with easy "plug-in" development abilities.

As a consequence of this standard format, converted HH can easily be shared with anybody equiped with the player. Another consequence is the fact that a converted hand is somehow editable : you can add comments to a hand, or to a single "action". You can as well "highlight" a specific hand, setting a "interest level", so that you or your friends can easily find out which hand of the whole session are worth reading.

A Hand History VCR

The player allows you to replay any hand, stepping forward and backward, from action to action, or from hand to hand in a session. You’ll see the hand developped exactly as it was initialy played. In order to make the replaying as comfortable as possible, I’ve developped a system of graphical skin, which reproduce very accuratly the displays of the real poker softwares. In this first version, you can therefore dynamically switch between the Poker Stars, the Party Poker, and the Betfair Poker looks. Note that this graphical environnement choice as no influence on the HH you can read. As an example, if one of your friends send you a party poker hand, you can play it with the poker stars look, if this is the one you’re used to play with.

A session is represented as ribbon made with single small rectangles. Each rectangle is a hand, so you can select very quickly any hand on this ribbon and play it. The selection simplicity can be taken one step forward by using the available filters. If you only wanna see the hands where John went to the river, it’s very easy.

Graphics

You’ll also find the session’s "ribbon" as the x axis of some graphics computed by the player. Stack evolution, for anybody at the table, or even "M" evolution ( Harrington’s ) are presented in this graphics page. Again, in order to make session browsing easier, you can double click anywhere on the graphic to play this specific hand where, for example, stack evolution seems decisive.

More....

Many informations are displayed, including hand / session info, blinds, ante, or even real time pot odds. I’ll let you discover all this stuff by yourself

Last, an export function is available. My objective is to offer various export formats, including the most popular poker forum’s formats. As a start, a BB-Code ( for PHP forum ) export is available, formatting the hand ( or hands, every kind of selection is possible ) to a readable rendering, with the comments you may have added. I’m also pretty sure that anybody willing to make a rather long tournament report, selecting hand, adding comments, etc,... cound save much time using this software.

ScreenShots

Soon

A lot more poker room compatibilities. My priority are Paradise, Pacific, UB, Titan, etc... I’m also going to add a feature i care a lot about : The ability to specify one or more hard drive directories, and to scan thoses directories for changes. By selecting the log directory of your room ( providing there is one ), you’ll simply have to launch the player, which would automaticaly load your last sessions and play it. [ EDIT : done since V1.4 ]

Warning

The Popopop Player is a free software, coryrighted and under GNU licence. That means you can do whatever you want with it, except selling it. I also keep the right to share it. If you want you website to share it, simply add a link to this page. What you can do, and that would be cool, is to tell around you about it, if you think it is worth using.

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