![]() ![]() PokerSoftware: What were the problems with the PokerTracker 4.11 release? It was designed to allow our developers and third party users to cache custom stats for the first time, improving PokerTracker 4's performance so it is better than ever before. So that was what PokerTracker 4.11 was designed to do. They use custom stats in new ways to visually describe the same information rather than provide it in numbers. For example, companies like ProPokerHUDs and CoffeeHUD actually create stats that you or I normally wouldn't't consider to be stats. You can also create a custom HUD that incorporates advanced stats that help you visualize what is occurring at the table. This way you can do your post-game analysis with reports or graphs that contain stats that are the most meaningful to you. This means if we don't have a stat that is already predefined in PokerTracker 4, any end user or third-party developer can actually create that stat. Steve McLoughlin: One of the cool things about PokerTracker 4 is that we have always allowed custom stats. PokerSoftware: How does this change with custom stats? Caching makes the database respond very fast un-cached columns result in very slow custom stat updates. When the data in a column is cached, it means the data in the column is pre-calculated.Īfter each hand is imported, the cache is then updated with the new recalculated result. The default columns in PokerTracker 4 can be stored in a database cache of pre-calculated results, but custom columns could not be cached until PT4.11. We then multiply this by 100 to display the stat in percentage form. ![]() The stat is calculated by taking the VPIP Action column and then dividing it by the VPIP Opportunity column. ![]() For example, the stat for VPIP is consists of a column counting the total number times the player voluntarily put money in the pot and another column that is the total number of opportunities there were for that player to put money in the pot. Each columnn records a specific action or opportunity to take that action. This allows multiple stats to use the same building blocks, but these blocks aren't necessarily stored in the database. Steve McLoughlin: Stats are PokerTracker 4 "objects" that do not exist in the database instead, stats are also composed of PokerTracker 4 columns. ![]() PokerSoftware: How is a stat normally created in PokerTracker and what is the importance of caching? PokerTracker 4.11's principal new feature is the inclusion of database caching for custom stats for the first time we have been working on this very complicated update for the past half-year. It defines how PokerTracker can be used by our power users without slowing them down. Steve McLoughlin: PokerTracker 4.11 is a major breakthrough for PokerTracker 4. PokerSoftware: Tell us a bit about PokerTracker 4.11. PokerTracker representative Steven McLoughlin (pictured) answered a few of our questions about this major release, what the problems were, how they are being resolved, and what was learned from the experience. Tweet If you missed it, PokerTracker Version 4.11 was a major breakthrough for users and developers of custom stats, but this software release didn't't occur without a few problems. ![]()
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