09 Feb 12
PokerStrategy.com SideKick: Now With StrategyPoint Counter
The PokerStrategy.com SideKick awards players with badges, or Kicks, whenever they play online poker and play a significant hand or hit a milestone. Now, you can also use it to keep count of your StrategyPoints!
The PokerStrategy.com SideKick has a new feature that allows you to track the approximate number of StrategyPoints earned in each of your poker sessions, alongside your Kicks awarded and total hands played.
This feature is currently compatible with PokerStars and PartyPoker, with plans to include 888poker and the iPoker network in upcoming updates.
New feature: StrategyPoint Counter
The latest feature of the PokerStrategy.com SideKick is the StrategyPoint Counter. This appears alongside the new session stats, telling you your rake and StrategyPoints earned in each session of poker.The Counter appears in the "Statistics" window of the PokerStrategy.com SideKick and tracks your session rake and session StrategyPoints alongside your play time and hands played.
This is an excellent guide for how many StrategyPoints you will be awarded for each session, giving you a general idea of how much you will need to play to advance to the next status level.The StrategyPoint Counter is geared towards Texas Hold'em cash games. If you play multi-table tournaments or other poker variants, the StrategyPoint Counter will not provide a fully accurate total for your StrategyPoints.
Note: the PokerStrategy.com SideKick is not the default StrategyPoints counter. To see a fully accurate overview of your StrategyPoints, you must see "My Portal" on our homepage. StrategyPoints earned in a session will not be awarded instantaneously.
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Upcoming Kicks
We like to keep our members working, so we regularly release new Kicks that our members can achieve. The last set of new Kicks were focused towards grinders, awarding Kicks for hands played on a given day.Coming soon, we have some new Kicks that will be awarded to players achieving some cool feats at the table, including one that rewards playing poker like Chuck Norris.
#1
M1rCea, 09 Feb 12 10:31
Keeps getting better!Do we still get SP for hitting certain kicks?
#2
PS.Markus, 09 Feb 12 11:12
@M1rCea: Great that you like it. :)The SP promo has ended, but we do have a set of other promotions coming up.
Keep an eye on the promo news section.
#3
Fagin, 09 Feb 12 13:05
Ah yes .... session length 01:12:29 - hands in session 273- Session rake $0.00 - Session SP 0.00Seems to be working fine????
#4
PS.Markus, 09 Feb 12 13:15
@Fagin: Which games on which platform are you playing? Can you please send a hand history sample?Thanks!
#5
Lagranzo, 09 Feb 12 14:20
It looks like there is only an indication how many SP you will recieve. Better would be if the SP could be counted through SideKick if even you are not tracked by poker room for pokerstrategy. So if you have miss entering marketing code then registering you could be still tracked with this program. This would allow to extend it's use to much wider audience.#6
PS.Markus, 09 Feb 12 14:37
@Lagranzo: Yes, it's just an indication.Regarding your suggestion, it would indeed broaden the audience, but it would also completely void the incentive for playing tracked.
So I think it's pretty safe to say that it's not going to happen.
#7
Tunatic, 09 Feb 12 14:39
You have an ETA when the winners for the Full House Kick promotion will be announced?#8
PS.Markus, 09 Feb 12 14:49
@Tunatic: There's a separate news planned for tomorrow.#9
Fagin, 09 Feb 12 19:12
@ PS.Markus - NL2 cash games on 888 - where do you want the HH sent, how many hands ??#10
PS.Markus, 09 Feb 12 20:03
@Fagin: 888 will be supported in an upcoming release (it's being implemented right now). The SP counter is currently only available for PokerStars and PartyPoker.So, no worries, we already got a good test set. Thanks!
#11
Alaiii, 10 Feb 12 00:06
i dont undestand what i win unlocking kicks.#12
Tunatic, 10 Feb 12 00:30
You don't win anything, but it's still a fun application to have installed to track a few of your stats and collect these "achievements".#13
PS.Markus, 10 Feb 12 10:11
Plus, we're shelling out promotions on a pretty regular basis, e.g.: http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/content/SideKick-Promotion:-3x-$1,000-Cash-Winners,-3x-iPad-2-Winners-and-New-Feature_56470/#14
Fagin, 10 Feb 12 10:35
@PS.Markus - Guess I should have read the small print fist lol.Thanks anyway.
#15
PS.Markus, 10 Feb 12 11:28
@Fagin: No worries. :)