If you installed wine via my rpms from the HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine, I’ve updated Fedora Core 5 to the latest rpms, patched and all, to wine-0.9.36-2.
I’ve ditched gocr in favor of tesseract. I found a script that makes all of the image manipulation, OCR’ing and clean up a snap. All I had to do was modify the parameters for ImageMagick’s convert program to generate the best image possible.
For example, this:
turns into this:
Which OCR’s to:
$6 + $0.50 Sit & Go (Turbo)
Game: Hold’em(Turbo)No Limit Status: Completed
Buy-In: $6 + $0.50 Started: May 16 09:33
Entrants: 9 Ended: May 16 10:15
To show why I ditched gocr, here is the output from the same command line switches to imagemagick but instead of writing to tesseract’s required tiff format, I used gocr favored pbm format.
_6 + _O.5O Sit & Go (Turbo)
Game: HoId’em (Turbo) No Limit 5tatus: CompIeted
Bu_-In: _6 + _D.5D 5tarted: May 16 D9:33
Entrants: 9 Ended: May 16 lD:15
While the spacing is correct, the quality is vastly different.
Now while the spacing isn’t PERFECT, the text, numbers and symbols ARE in this example, whereas FTOPS #3 shows FTOPS as F1~OPS as the F and T run together. Next step, update the tournaments with valid screen shots with the OCR’ed data. As a bonus, the start and end times will be 100% correct.
tags: full tilt, gfts, poker, tournament summaries
One thing about the freerolls on Full Tilt is that I’m starting to become immune to the bad beats. Just for that alone, I loves me some freerolls. I was in a SnG short stacked and pushed with 44. I had one caller who was very loose and aggressive, and I hoped he would call. We turned over our cards and we had ourselves a race, 4♠4♥ vs A♦T♦. The flop was music to my ears, 2♠6♦4♣. The turn brought X♦ and the river gave the LAG a flush, bouncing me in 7th.
So that got me started on the odds of making various hands before or on the river. Yes these topics are covered many places, but I am doing this for two reasons. 1) It’s not covered on MattahFahtu and 2) I understand things better after I write them down. So this is for me, damnit!
The first installment is the Flush. Fitting, no? 
Q. You hold any two cards of the same suit. What are the odds that you flop a flush?
A. Out of the 52 cards in the deck, there are 13 cards in each suit and we know about 2 of them, so there are 11 left. There are 50 unknown cards left that have 117,600 (50 * 49 * 48 ) different combinations to generate the flop. To make our flush there are 990 ( 11 * 10 * 9 ) possibilities, giving us a 0.84% ( 990 / 117,600 ) chance that we will flop a flush.
Q. You hold any two cards of the same suit, and one of your suit hits on the flop. What are the odds that you will complete the flush by the river?
A. There are 13 cards in each suit we know about 3 of them, so there are 10 left. One must hit on the turn and one on the river. So there are 90 different combinations of the same suit falling (10 * 9), now the inverse of that is there there are a total of 5 known cards (you hold two of then, and the board shows three of them), so there are a total of 47 unknown cards left. The possible number of combinations of the turn and river are 2,162 (47 * 46) and of those 2,162 only 90 of them will help you. So the odds are 90 / 2,192, or 4.16%, that the perfect two cards will fall. Now if we are in an all-in situation and your opponent(s) do not hold any cards of your suit, the odds increase (duh).
Q. You hold any two cards of the same suit, and two of your suit hits on the flop. What are the odds that you will complete the flush by the river?
A. There are 13 cards in each suit we know about 4 of them, so there are 9 left. One must hit on either the turn or the river. We have a 9 outs twice. Phil Gordon has a nice rule about this one, the rule of 4 and 2. Basically on the flop you multiply your total outs by 4 for the percentage of hitting your out by the river. On the turn, you multiply your outs by 2 for the percentage of hitting your out on the river. So we have 9 * 4, or roughly 36% that one of your suit will fall on the turn or the river and 9 * 2, or roughly 18% that the card will fall on the river. You will see why Phil’s rule of 4 and 2 is really good to use.
Since we only need one card to fall on either the turn or the river, we have 9 cards to help at each round out of a total of 47, so the odds that the card will fall on the turn is 9 / 47, or 19.15%. As for the river, there is one less card to hurt us, to the the fraction increases to 9 / 46, or 19.57%. The 19.57% is close to Phil’s 18%, one reason why Phil’s Quickie Math works.
Those are the odds that one of our suit will fall at either the turn or at the river, so if we wanted to find the odds that the card will fall after the flop and by the river after the flop falls as we have 9 outs twice. From the paragraph above, we have 9 / 47 for the turn and 9 / 46 for the river. That is the total number possibilities that the cards can fall that will help us. (9 / 47) + ( 9 / 46) or 38.71%, which also includes hitting our cards on both streets. Again, really close with Phil’s quickie math for 36%.
We can also do the inverse with the following equation, which is generic enough to figure out odds for any hand:
Flop to River % = 1 - ( ((47 - Outs) / 47) * ((46 - Outs) / 46) )
( ((47 - Outs) / 47) * ((46 - Outs) / 46) ) = the odds that we do not hit our card on the turn or river
Take 1 away from that and it’s the odds that we will hit our card on either street, not both.
So the math is now:
1 - ( ((47 - 9) / 47) * ((46 - 9) / 46) )
1 - ( (38 / 47) * ( 37 / 46) )
1 - ( .809 * .804 )
1 - .65
.35
35%
35% percent is even closer to Phil’s Rule at 36%. Now add in the 4.12 % that our suit hits both streets and you have 39.12%, which is close to 38.71% that we had above. If we round the numbers to the nearest integer, we get 39% in both cases.
tags: poker, poker math, rule of 4 and 2
Via /.
“The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent “metalheads” are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.”
Hmm. Last 5 Songs my iPod played were:
In Flames - System
Slipknot - Surfacing
Lamb of God - More Time To Kill
Fight - Vicious
Broken Hope - Earth Burner
It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school that saw my music taste change from top 40 KIIS FM (Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul (Heh Rini), Amy Grant etc…) to metal KNAC (Slayer, Fear Factory, Megadeth, Metallica). I’m not exactly sure what triggered the change, but something said “Hey.. you. Check this shit out. You’ll never look back.” Even to this day, my wife says that by looking at me, you wouldn’t know that I enjoy the hard side of the rock. You know, the Double-Bass-Cookie-Monster-Death-Metal type. Six Feet Under, The Crown, At The Gates, Cryptopsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Face Down, what the majority of the planet would listen to and say “That’s not music!”
Last Summer Classic Iggy gave me shit for listening to an iPod at a Blogger event by saying, “Headphones at a blogger tournament? You are a douchbag.” I replied back, “Do I get any bonus points for listening to Death Metal?”
For those of you that never upgraded to XP or Upgraded your hardware and OS to Vista and do not want to pay another MS tax (of about $4k) to get the hotfix, I suggest that you checkout this article and the TZEDIT.exe. My 2000 server is running just fine, thank you very much. I see no need to upgrade to XP or build a complete new system so I can learn everything all over again with Vista.
Then again, there’s always Linux.
If you installed wine via my rpms from the HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine, I’ve updated Fedora Core 5 and 6 to the latest rpms, patched and all, to wine-0.9.32-1.
Fedora Core 5 rpms and Fedora Core 6 rpms
This document will help the poker playing Linux user install wine, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and optionally, BoDog, UltimateBet and Internet Explorer (which is required to run BoDog and UltimateBet). Some of the topics discussed here are for the more advanced Linux user who is not scared to recompile applications and patch source code, but this is not required if you are running Fedora Core 4 or 5. I am currently running Fedora Core 5, so that’s what this HOWTO will reflect. Any section of the HOWTO that looks like the following is run from a X terminal, or the command line.
# command
This is a Note.
To help weed out other bugs and configurations, we do not want any type of wine configurations installed on the system. I would assume for the most part that you do not have wine installed yet. If you do and you have a lot of data and Windows applications working, this HOWTO shouldn’t interfere with the data you have now, but you never know what could happen. Please backup any data before starting the steps outlined in this HOWTO. On my Fedora Core boxes, the data to backup is in ~/.wine
# tar -cvf wine-bakup.tar ~/.wine
Here is the list of files that you will need to download. When to download and where to download then to are described below.
tags: bodog, full tilt, linux, poker, pokerstars, ultimatebet, wine
So Saturday night my server room, along with the rest of a few blocks around my house, had a power outage that lasted a few hours. It was nice to have the house lit up with candles and lanterns. But when the power came back and I tried to turn on the box that this site and a few others were on, no dice. The box would not come up. After a few minutes of tinkering, I found out that the HD had failed. If the HD was connected to the power supply, the box would not turn on, but as soon as I disconnected the HD, the box came to life.
Now I tell my family to make regular backups, just in case something happens. You would think I would take my own advice. I didn’t.
I called a few data recovery places to see what the cost would be to restore the drive, and the range was from $500 to $2,700. 3k to get my drive back? Key-ryst! Luckily one of my co-workers helped trouble shoot what was wrong and the board on the HD had a short in it. We replaced it with a compatible board and the drive came back to life! The the drive was cloned and that’s where it stands now, back in the box and running, as you are reading this.
Now I take my own advice, and I am in the middle of backing up every machine in the room. Twice!
tags: power outage
Full Tilt Summaries, or GFTS, has been updated. The new version is v0.2.5 and has no expiration date. Please let me know if you have any issues via here, here or here.
Changes:
* Fix: A little house keeping.
* Removed the expiration date
Download the new version at http://www.mattahfahtu.com/gfts/
There are two mailling lists, an announcement list (read only) and a users list.
To subscribe to the announcement list go to http://list.mattahfahtu.com/mailman/listinfo/gfts-announce
To subscribe to the users list go to http://list.mattahfahtu.com/mailman/listinfo/gfts-users
To post to the list, you would send an email to gfts-users@list.mattahfahtu.com (subscribers only).
tags: full tilt, gfts, poker software, tournament summaries
Since 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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