PokerStrategy Elephant replaces PT/PA

Published on 02 Apr 08 08:27 by SoyCD

As of today, our members reaching 2,000 StrategyPoints get a license for PokerStrategy Elephant, instead of PokerTracker and PokerAce.

What is Elephant?
The PokerStrategy Elephant is a beginners-friendly analysis program, which we have developed exclusively for our members. It reads all hand history from your poker client, whilst playing. Statistics are calculated from these hand history's, which can then be used to further improve your game.

These statistics aren't only available to you in the program itself, but are also displayed around the name's of the opponents playing at your table. Elephant is an analysis tool, which in functionality, looks a lot like PokerTracker and PokerAce.

Why do we replace PokerTracker for Elephant?
Many of you will wonder why we would change from the perfectly well working PokerTracker to the not yet completed Elephant. Well, there are very good reasons – and it's not to save money!

To summarize:
1. PokerTracker2 is no longer sold (lack of availability)
2. PokerTracker2 will not be developed any further, which could result in poker site's no longer being supported after a software-update (uncertainty)
3. PokerTracker3 has not yet been released and we can't influence the release date (unpredictability)
4. PokerTracker3 only supports three poker site's and thus less then Elephant already supports (incomplete).
5. Elephant supports each partner site (complete)
6. The development of Elephant is in our hands (safety).
7. Because of this, we can guarantee that in the long term your suggestions on that what you really need, can also be implemented (better functionality)

The detailed version
The further development of PokerTracker2 has officially been stopped. The original developer has sold the name PokerTracker to the programmers of Pokertools' PokerAce. Therefore, the program is not developed any further and it's no longer possible to buy new licenses. What this also means is that we can't buy new licenses. Which seemed very irresponsible to us, finally, was that there will be no more updates for PT2. This could prove to be very necessary though, even with a small software update in one of the poker sites their software.
The upcoming program, PokerTracker3, is still in it's early stages of development. So far the publication of a version of PokerTracker3 -which has been planned for 15/4- only supports three platforms. Therefor changing to PokerTracker3 seems very unattractive to many members. This was one of the reasons for the development of Elephant: to provide support for all our partner sites.

The development of PokerStrategy Elephant
Because we want to continue to provide you with an analysis tool that covers all your needs regarding poker software, we have developed the most beginners-friendly product there is on the market: The PokerStrategy Elephant.
With this, we now have the opportunity to offer you a very good replacement, which we can further develop based on your exact needs.

In the coming days we will publish a trial version, which will start at the same time as the beta phase of the PokerStrategy Elephants. This version is fully functional and without any restrictions, though it has a time limit of 3 weeks. By the end of this 3-week trial, the PokerStrategy Elephant will be offered for about $ 80,- in our shop. Alternatively you can earn a licence for 2,000 StrategyPoints. For everyone that reaches or reached the 2,000 points mark before the release of PokerStrategy Elephant, a full license allso will be made available.

The transition: From Pokertracker2 to PokerStrategy Elephant
For the reasons mentioned above, we have decided to stop working together with PokerTracker.

The consequences:

1. All members that have reached the necessary 2,000 points before 31.03.08 will still receive a PokerTracker2 license.

2. All members that pass the limit of 2,000 points on or after 01.04.08, and have not yet received a PT-license, will get a license for the PokerStrategy Elephant, once they reach 2,000 StrategyPoints.

3. Everyone (even those who already have received or will still receive a PokerTracker license) will get the full version of Elephant after he/she has earned 2,000 StrategyPoints after 01/04/2008.

The planned development of the PSElephants (next 4 weeks):

In the coming weeks, we will steadily expand the functionality of PokerStrategy Elephant.

Firstly we want you to be able to freely position the table's statistics (HUD) with a layout manager. Immediately after that, we want to integrate complete SNG support.

After that we will integrate support for the fifth poker platform; Mansion Poker. In addition to this, we are working on a functionality which automaticly recognizes your own position and the position of your opponents at the table. This will make it possible to provide statistics of our opponents without sitting at the table ourselves. This is also the basis for a planned table selection add-on.

Then we want to add in our, already well-known equity analysis program, Equilator.


The following features are planned

• Support for all our partner sites
• Table selection add-on
• ICM analysis program
• Statistics Trainer
• Make marked poker hands exportable (for feedback from other users)
• Reliability of values indicated (P-value)
• Slansky-Bucks calculation
• An improved notes system
• Creating customizable statistic queries
  

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