New poker tool - Rakeback calculator (super fast)
 

hi everyone, im a comp sci student and right now Im freshening up my C# for upcomming exams in january.

Since im going to invest alot of time coding exercise tasks I thought I might aswell code something useful instead.

I remember from my old FL-days that I missed a nice tool to calculate my rakeback.


You can get an estimation of the rake you paied with tools like pokertracker, but this is just an avrage and can be pretty far off the real numbers unless you have huge databases AND have played with almost exactly the same number of players at the table all the time aswell as at the same stakes. Pokertracker is also extremly slow when loading large ammount of logfiles since it reads and calculates alot of other stuff.

So I made a small tool for this. It loads the pure party poker logfiles just as pokertracker but is over 40 times faster and calculates the rake generated exactly as partypoker does.

rbcalc is just a first "beta" release, I have been working on a graph engine to the program that will be implemented after X-mas. The idea is that users should be able to draw a graph over their winnings with the rakeback graph beside it so one can see how much of the total winnings is from rakeback.


Please use this thread for feedback and ideas to improve the program and/or ideas for other useful tools (nothing to heavy) and I will take a look at it when I get the time.


rbcalc download page

hope someone can find this useful, enjoy!

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is this gonna put a bot on my system that lets u see my cards?

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Yes, but not until after it copies all your personal info and stored passwords.

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If you feel that way you dont have to use my tool, but dont talk [censored] about things you have no grounds for whatsoever.

rbcalc is of course opensource and freeware, complete source code is available on the homepage.

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So, umm...is it counting the tournament hands as actual rakeback hands rather than just the buyin? If not, somehow I've managed for 300k of rakeback in 11 days.

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Spammy and cross posted in 3 forums, nice.

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I posted this in the rakeback topic when I maybe should have put it under software. So that is why I made a link refer to the original thread in the software forum and it was not meant as spam.

sorry about that

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rbcalc currently only works for the partypoker type log files, you just drag and drop one or manny files, it even handles entire folders, ontop of the program and it calculates the rake.

jmillerdls, no Im sorry to say that rbcalc does not work for tournament logs yet, I am working on that as we speak.


Rbcalc calculate the rake like this:
The total rake in a hand will be the difference between how much the winner gets and the total number of bets placed in the pot. The players rake will be the total rake in the hand divided by the number of players in that hand.

I think this should be correct?

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If you feel that way you dont have to use my tool, but dont talk [censored] about things you have no grounds for whatsoever.

rbcalc is of course opensource and freeware, complete source code is available on the homepage.

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you got 7 posts dude, what do you expect?

if its legit then ignore the trolls, the positive feedback will take this away for you


p.s. i'm gonna have my programmer look over this source code and i'll report back...

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At least someone is giving this guy the benfet of the doubt. Encourage ppl who are trying to help the poker community. Look how great PA hud turned out. This could be similar. Don't hate unless u got a reason.

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hehe, thx Stacy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] it's not a big deal though, the program is verry simple, nothing fancy. I just thought it could be useful.

But I was hoping to build something more advanced in the near future, so if anyone has an idea of something they need, feel free to spam me some and I will se what I can do.

If you prefer anything else then C/C++ Im pretty good at VB, Phyton, haskell and lisp aswell. Interresting idea to see how much faster one could make it in a functional programming language ey? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

rbcalc - screenshots
 

I thought I would throw up some screenshots, enjoy.

Reading a folder..
http://rbcalc.i8.com/screen1.jpg

http://rbcalc.i8.com/screen2.jpg

Graph test
http://rbcalc.i8.com/screen3.jpg

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this program takes total rake per table divided by number of players and outputs that number as total MGR?

if so, this program is great. tyvvm.

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Currently, Windows Antispyware is freaking out over a possible trojan (svchost.exe).

This came up right after unzipping and running this program. I'm working through my suite of antispyware right now but I'm pretty damn drunk so I don't know whats going on. FYI though.

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indeed this does seem similar to the way the HUD's like PV and poker-ace and GT+ came about.

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I posted this in the rakeback topic when I maybe should have put it under software. So that is why I made a link refer to the original thread in the software forum and it was not meant as spam.

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This thread should probably live in the software forum! (Craig?)

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rbcalc is of course opensource and freeware, complete source code is available on the homepage.

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Link to source code?

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A pokertracker like app for stud and stud8 would be great. I would buy it.

Doesn't have to be fancy at all, just a totally basic version of pokertracker for stud. And when I say basic, I would pay for even a totally totally basic app for stud.

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Yes thats exactly what it does, it reads that info from the logs you specify and makes a list of rake per day aswell as the total.

cheers

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hehe, yea Im new to this forum so I did not know there was a software forum until after I started this thread, sry.

As for the source it's available on the webpage, both the old console version I used when playing before I released the tool and the new gui version.
The console version was not that user friendly since it uses hardcoded folders and handle when reading the log files.

http://rbcalc.i8.com/rbcalc.htm

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I get a 404 error

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There was a small bug, the application crashed when trying to read large "logfiles"... I drag an dropped a movie (700Mb) [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
So I took down that version and updated it with a new version. It should work now.

This one is uncrashable, I tested it by drag and dropping the entire windows directory [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

cheers

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Currently, Windows Antispyware is freaking out over a possible trojan (svchost.exe).

This came up right after unzipping and running this program. I'm working through my suite of antispyware right now but I'm pretty damn drunk so I don't know whats going on. FYI though.

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Is this true? Has anyone else got this? I would like to try the program but I'm afraid after a post like that.

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When calculating the rake, how does it account for the bad beat jackpot rake? Doesn't PP include this in the rake?

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hmm, good point! I don't know mhyself. I guess PP just takes more rake? and if so then rbcalc would count the bad beat jackpot rake as normal rake.

Anyone know this?

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Obviosly this guy was drunk, download Windows Antispyware from mircosot.com and check for yourself. Since I recon you wont belive me.

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anyway u can make this read Absolute histories as well?

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anyway u can make this read Absolute histories as well?

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I'll second that.

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this sounds pretty cool, i'm going to download it later. what file do you drag into it?

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Yes, I probably could, but I am not familiar with the syntax of those hand history files.

I will need a sample to work with, so if some one could point me to a few logfiles I will have a look at it.

cheers

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You drag and drop hand history file/files or folders containing history files. It does not matter if there are other non-history files in that folder, if so rbcalc ignores them.

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Yes, I probably could, but I am not familiar with the syntax of those hand history files.

I will need a sample to work with, so if some one could point me to a few logfiles I will have a look at it.

cheers

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sent by pm.

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ok, I will try to implement it till the next version.

merry xmas!

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The bad news, I ran some tests today and this calculator does not come up with the correct rakeback stats atleast at PartyPoker. So if you're numbers don't equal your affiliates numbers then you know why. The good news, On every date this program underestimated rakeback stats so you'll be getting more back then you expect.

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I don't see the source code. Is it still there?

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Nice work, where's the source tho?

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The reason the source is down is because the tool was sold, and I am not sure if the site that bought my software want to supply the source code. So that is the reason it is down for now. I will post more about this later.

Currently I have made my own engine for reading Poker Tracker databases, so RBCalc now reads both PT files aswell as the pure logfiles.
I have also implemented the graph engine for both logfiles and PTdatabases, and you can draw the winnings aswell as the rakeback graph ontop of the win-graph.
The logfile engine is also a bit optimized for even better speed, the function that reads the PT database is verry fast aswell and reads about 100 000 hands in around 5 minutes on my stationary PC.

I have some small stuff to finish up that I will complete during this day, and I will release more info where to get the tool later tonight after I have talked to my employer.

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The bad news, I ran some tests today and this calculator does not come up with the correct rakeback stats atleast at PartyPoker. So if you're numbers don't equal your affiliates numbers then you know why. The good news, On every date this program underestimated rakeback stats so you'll be getting more back then you expect.

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Example. 4 players sitting at a table. One of them sits out, the log will display "xxxx is sitting out". When I first made the tool I tought it would say this for all players sitting out in every hand, BUT the client only writes this to the log ONCE when the player actually sits out. After that, in the next hand it will look like 4 players are still sitting at the table, but in fact one of them is sitting out. I did not realizie this when I coded the txt-log engine, so that is the reason why RBCalc dispays a bit less rake then what you actually get. Since it will devide the rake by 4 players in that example, instead of 3.

// pat

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The "sitting-out-bug" mentioned above is now fixed.

//pat

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The new version of RBCalc has been completed and can be found at www.checkraised.com


//pat

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I am getting a SQL error of 00000. My PostGRESQL database is not located on the local computer, its hosted on a seperate workstation to keep things nice and speedy.

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

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I am getting a SQL error of 00000.



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