Software to Read the Party Poker Board

MolonLabe · #1 09-23-2005, 08:00 AM

I want to write my own data mining software, but I haven't programmed for awhile so I have a lot ot catching up to do. I already have poker tracker and poker office, but there are certain statistics that I would like to look into that isn't covered by either. (E.G. When a player in first position checks and calls on the flop and turn and then bets on the river - how often is he trying to bluff his way out of a busted draw and how how often was he just slow playing.)

My main programming hurdle is this - for Party Poker and Skins

1. Read the the dealer text box.
2. Read my hole cards by the graphics.
3. Read the chip stack sizes of self and opponents by the graphics

What programming language would be best to do this and what commands would allow me to do this.

Thanks for your help.

Zapp · #2 09-23-2005, 08:19 AM

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I want to write my own data mining software, but I haven't programmed for awhile so I have a lot ot catching up to do. I already have poker tracker and poker office, but there are certain statistics that I would like to look into that isn't covered by either. (E.G. When a player in first position checks and calls on the flop and turn and then bets on the river - how often is he trying to bluff his way out of a busted draw and how how often was he just slow playing.)

My main programming hurdle is this - for Party Poker and Skins

1. Read the the dealer text box.
2. Read my hole cards by the graphics.
3. Read the chip stack sizes of self and opponents by the graphics

What programming language would be best to do this and what commands would allow me to do this.

Thanks for your help.

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You are doing it the hard way. All of the information you need is written to the hand history file as it happens. No need to mess with reading card images or texboxes or anything. Just parse the hand history file.

MolonLabe · #3 09-23-2005, 08:27 AM

Isn't the hand history file only for games that I am playing in? I want to data mine from many different tables.

Zapp · #4 09-23-2005, 08:34 AM

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Isn't the hand history file only for games that I am playing in? I want to data mine from many different tables.

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.HHF files are written for all observed games. Games you play in are in a directory with the same name as your screen name with .TXT extentions. Observed games are in the program directory with .HHF extentions.

MolonLabe · #5 09-23-2005, 08:56 AM

Dam... you just made my job simpler by about a million times. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you.

One question though. Do you have any idea why Poker Office keeps my text window open in party and won't allow me to go "totally silent"? That's why I figured reading the text window was the way to go.

Thanks a million again.

Zapp · #6 09-23-2005, 08:58 AM

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Do you have any idea why Poker Office keeps my text window open in party and won't allow me to go "totally silent"?

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No.

jba · #7 09-23-2005, 11:26 AM

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You are doing it the hard way. All of the information you need is written to the hand history file as it happens. No need to mess with reading card images or texboxes or anything. Just parse the hand history file.

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I think that's still the hard way. why not just dip into the PT database, he's already parsed the history files.

wdbaker · #8 09-25-2005, 12:13 AM

I agree, unless you need the info realtime then just get it from the PT dbase where it's already been parced.

As for poker office, I don't think they know how to parse and read the hh on the fly, that's all I can think of

One Street at a Time
wdbaker Denver, Co

MolonLabe · #9 02-16-2006, 04:36 PM

Reading the .HHF worked fantastically well for the last 4 months but unfortunately Party Poker discontinued this nice little feature. So I ask again.

What is the technique used to read the game action live (that some of the software out there uses?) What is the software and programming code and is any of it out there as freeware?

Thanks for the help

Terry · #10 02-17-2006, 01:38 AM

You're looking for AutoHotkey to do screen scraping. Look at it's PixelGetColor, PixelSearch, and ImageSearch functions used in conjunction with WindowSpy. You won't be able to get mucked hands in observed games, only the cards that get exposed.

There have been several posts in this forum in the past couple weeks with some great AHK scripts to use the keyboard as a mouse and some other really cool stuff. Looking over those scripts will give you a big head start toward working with Party windows and controls.

Please post your bot script or PM me a copy when it's done. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]