Poker In Linux and BoDog client update…
Categories: linux, wine, Software, Poker, G33kSince I started to see what poker clients I could get to run under wine (version wine-0.9.24-1.fc4), here is the list of sites and status for the different sites:
PokerStars
- runs perfectly. Tournaments and cash games run fine. The only thing I had to do was add the line f5redrawtable=1 into the user.ini file under [Options] to make it so I can resize the windows properly. Yes, the sb and bb folded to my Hammer raise.
Full Tilt Poker
- installs fine, fails to connect to the server so far no issues found after patching wine.
GetCurrentHwProfileA (0×7d4fdeec) semi-stub
There is a fix to this.. released in Feb of 06 that still hasn’t merged with the source. Other people have merged it into local copies and have gotten Full Tilt to work. I will try with CodeWeavers Crossover version of wine (non freeware) to see if it works there and then fix and recompile the source if the CodeWeavers version of wine doesn’t fix it.
Update: CodeWeavers Crossover is in the same boat as wine. Makes perfect sense.. wine and crossover share the same core code.
Update : After I patched the wine code for GetCurrentHwProfileA, recompiled wine, updated wine and created a machine GUID I was able to connect to Full Tilt and everything ran just fine! If anyone is interested I have FC4 rpms that you can use.
BoDog
- installs fine, runs fine. Haven’t had any issues so far. Cash tables seem to work fine (at least on the play money side). I haven’t played a tournament yet, but I plan on it in the next new days.
UltimateBet
- installs fine, fails to load. looks like its a winsock, actcttx errors. I get an invalid file handle error. UB Fails to run on my Win 2k machine, reboots my machine much like BoDog does, but at least the BoDog client loads all of the way and I have to login to make it reboot. UB flashes the lobby then reboots my machine.
Update : After I patched wine and redownloaded the latest version of UltimateBet v6.9.0.0 Release 2006.11.9.b (the auto update failed) I was able to run, login and sit at a play money table.
I now have 4 out of the 4 poker clients that I have tested in Linux with my patched version of wine working.
Yes.. this is a because I can type of thing. 
Please also see my HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine
tags: bodog, linux poker, wine
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November 20th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
You should also be able to run the world poker exchange (WPX) client. Works fine for me under wine in FC-4. This site is interesting because it rebates 100% of the rake you pay on a weekly basis. That also tends to draw an undesirable element to the tables.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I have had Full Tilt Poker working with Wine before, but after I upgraded Wine it broke
I was wondering what exactly you did? WineHQ seams to be down at the moment. Anyways I would appreciate a link to the FC4 rpms that you use.
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I patched wine with this patch and recompiled.
Here is the link to the RPMs:
mattahfahtu.com/rpms/fc4-i386/stable/.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Hi,
Has anyone managed to get UltimateBet installed and running with wine-0.9.56 and Ubuntu Gutsy?
I am pulling my hair out. It worked fine until a few weeks ago, then suddenly stopped when wine automatically upgraded. I have tried installing an old version of wine, but still nothing works. It seems to install, then the installer dies at the end. The program itself seems to be completely installed, but refuses to start.
Any help appreciated–UltimateBet runs a freeroll every hour!
Thanks,
Tim