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Hello everyone,

The new FPDB release 0.30.2 is now available for download as source or as
packages/installers for Windows.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpdb/files/fpdb/0.30/

As usual this version brings many improvements and bugfixes please take
your time and review below.

What is FPDB?
===================
FPDB (Free Poker Database) is a free/open source suite of steadily growing
tools to track and analyse your online poker game. It is written to help
you collect statistics on yourself and opponents and provide useful ways to
review those stats both live (ie while playing) or in post analysis.

FPDB is able to import the hand histories that poker sites write to your
computer and to store additional data from each hand in a database for use
in later analysis.

We are ambitious. We intending to support all games on all sites - well.

   - Graphs: Profit, Showdown/non-Showdown, EV graphs + Export to file
   - Session Viewer (New) - Candlestick representation of your cash game
   sessions.
   - Hand Viewer (New): List hands from a session and analyse/filter the
   hands to look more closely at your recent results.
   - Filters: Most of the review pages support multiple filters such as
   player, game type, limits, date range and other filters specific to the
   current view.
   - Hand Replayer (New): A way to play hand and watch the action unfold
   with stack sizes etc.
   - HUD: Colourised Heads Up Display to show up to the second stats and
   trends on all your opponents.

What’s changed since 0.26?
====================
1000+ changesets (incl. merges) have gone in since 0.26. Code and
translations come from 16 unique contributors.

Session Viewer - New Feature:

   - This has been around for a while, but has now migrated to being
   considered ’stable’ (Thanks Chris Moore)
   - Double Click a session in the list view and the hands from that
   session will be loaded up in the new Hand Viewer.

Cash Game Graph:

   - EV Graphing
   - Legend is now draggable.
   - Various new filters

Hand List Viewer - New Feature:

   - A list of filterable hands for mining your hh’s for strengths,
   weaknesses or just interesting hands.
   - Usage: I recommend loading up a couple of sessions in the the session
   viewer, then double-click the session to open the replayer.
   - Warning: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOAD YOUR ENTIRE DATABASE. 500-1000 hands
   is going to take a little while to load, and take a decent amount of
   memory. I dont recommend pushing it.
   - Should work for all games, though some of the columns might still need
   some review (eg. Position col for Stud)
   - Most of the normal filters will function as expected.
   - Double click the hand to load in the Hand Replayer
   - Copy to clipboard - Right click a hand you’d like to post to a hand
   converter.

Hand Replayer - New Feature: A simple animated run through of the loaded
hand.
It should be noted that this feature is thanks to contributions from a
couple of first time contributors:

   - lastpoet contributed  the first working version of the code.
   - philr picked up that code and made it useful to users, adding multiple
   features including the hand query and list, date filter, table and card
   graphics and the link from Session Viewer.
   - toedder sent patches for better reading
   - Zarturo for splitting the hand list and the animation into separate
   windows, overhauling and implementing all of the filters available for the
   hand list.

The replayer hand list should work for all games, but you can only load up
and animate Holdem and Omaha games at the moment.

****** If you attempt to load stud or draw based games you will cause it to
crash at the moment.

General Updates:

   - Lots of PostgreSQL fixes in all areas (Thank Zarturo)

   - Much work has gone into making the logging work ‘properly’ we should
   be able to see a lot more useful info when FPDB has issues.
   - Massive speed boost when importing results of large tournaments.
   - The HUD should work much more stably on Linux now. Bostik switched us
   over to using the wnck library instead of Xlib, which has made window
   detection events much more stable, and allowed us to re-enable wondow
   resizing. This lib probably isn’t installed guys, python-wnck on my Ubuntu
   machine.

Site Support and Parsing:

New sites: BetOnline, Microgaming, 888/Pacific

PokerStars:

   - Lots of tourney results fixes.
   - Zoom
   - Home Games (cash and tourney)
   - Lots of mixed game fixes

Carbon/Merge network:

   - Carbon has been renamed Merge
   - Most (non-mix) games should now parse

   - Lots of accounting bug fixes.

   - HUD Should function much better now (?)
   - Cards parsing for all games.
   - Much better matching of table names
   - Tournament hand parsing support added.

Everleaf – Stud hands now parsed. This has some limitation as not all info
is published ot the hh

Entraction: Major fixes this was still experimental in the last release.
Things have improved, but I haven’t had any testers for a while.

   - Major accounting fixes – recognises all-ins, chips amounts with ,’s,
   ‘both blinds’ and ’second sb’ and a massive issue with the way the hands
   are split

iPoker: Overhaul, bug fixes and new games.

   - Cards now parse in at least Holdem and Stud so the mucked card display
   shouldn’t crash.
   - Cash – LO, PLO, NLHE, FLHE, 7 Card Stud 8, 5 Card Stud should all
   parse now.
   - Tourney – NLHE tourneys parse
   - Antes should parse properly now
   - GBP games should now parse
   - You can now import tournament results. Go to Import->Tournament
   Results Import and choose the HH file for each tournament.
   - HUD working for at least cash games.

FTP: Many more tourney types now parsed.

Win2Day/Boss: Update and rename

   - This has been renamed from Win2day to Boss, and given some cleanup
   - Updated for recent change to hh format
   - Added support for 5 Card Draw
   - Hero cards should now be read properly for Omaha games
   - Support for Swedish Kroner games – SEK
   - Initial support for tourneys

Tournament Results:
General note: You will need to import tournament results files before you
see results.

How to download/update
======================
Please note that you will have to recreate database and replace your config
file if you are upgrading from an earlier version.

FPDB will warn you if your database is incompatible and will not work
properly unless you recreate or use a new one.

To download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fpdb/files/fpdb/0.30/

Links
=====
To be notified by email of new versions you can subscribe to our announce
mailing list here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fpdb-announce
Link to fpdb website (wiki) http://fpdb.wiki.sourceforge.net/
Features page:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Features
How to install&setup fpdb in 5 Minutes with the Windows installer:
http://sf.net/projects/fpdb/files/fpdb/help/ Choose exe021install.avi
(18mb, no sound)
Installation instructions are available from:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Installation
Getting Started Instructions:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Getting_Started
FAQ: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=FAQ
Screenshots:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Screenshots

Languages
=========
Fpdb 0.30 is fully translated into English and Italian.
There’s partial translations for Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian. Hungarian, French and Romanian.

See http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Translationfor
further details.

Sources of Support
===============
Please also see the “Bug reports” section below to enable us to help you.

These are listed in order of usefulness – the 2+2 thread in particular is
rather chaotic so if we miss your post feel free to bring it up again

1) Chat/IRC: One of the developers is usually around, but it is IRC. Dont
get discouraged because if we don’t answer within 20 minutes, once we do
you’ve probably got our full attention.
This link takes you to a website where you can talk to us directly without
having to install an IRC client: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fpdb
Alternatively use can use any IRC client to connect to #fpdb on freenode.net

2) 2+2 Forums: The monster 2+2 forum thread (registration required).
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=273001 Please dont let
the size of the thread phase you. It is monitored and sends email
notifications to almost all of the developers some of the developers.
(Note: If you play poker and don’t frequent the 2+2 forums, you may want to
become better acquainted. Its a bit daunting at first, but well worth the
effort)

3) Mailing List: Visit
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fpdb-mainto subscribe to
the development & support mailing list and send us an email

When you do report issues, try to make it easier for us help you. We
usually need at least the
following information:
- FPDB version
- Operating system and version (e.g. Linux Mint 12 or Windows 7 64bit)
- Database type (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL)
- Install method (exe, tarball, deb, git, ebuild)
- Site name and gametype (e.g. $10 Pokerstars Razz SnG)
- Translation: What language is FPDB and the Poker Client is being
displayed in. If the language is not English, can you please reproduce the
issue while using the English translation first.
- Errors from the log files. There is now a copy to clipboard function to
assist this. We are usually looking for lines containing WARNING and ERROR.

Most of these details are available for easy copy & paste in the Help menu
under About or in Help->Log Messages (Use copy to clipboard)

Known Problems
========================
- HUD: Minimising/Restore on Windows is wrong. This isn’t going to be fixed
in this release cycle.
- Hand Viewer: Attempting to load too many hands in the Hand Viewer will
crash FPDB. We recommend using the Session viewer to limit the hand range.
Also see below.
- 5 Card Stud has only minimal support. Expect oddities with this game and
it has a ‘2nd street’ that we dont deal with yet. (Hand list will crash
when attempting to load this format.)
- Attempting to import Winamax DoN or ‘Starting Block Winamax Poker Tour’
results file before importing the hand history will result in an error.
- If the various viewers refuse to load, but the hand histories appear to
be importing correctly, then you need to update your config file.
Instructions:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fpdb/index.php?title=Reset_Configuration

Notices for Windows users
========================
1) First-time installs may need to download and install the C++ runtime
executable from Microsoft. Fpdb on Windows is not currently compatible with
PostgreSQL 9.x (it works fine in Linux). Please let us know if you know a
way to solve either of these problems.’
2) Windows users using MySQL may experience issues
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/fpdb/view.php?id=160 and/or
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/fpdb/view.php?id=159 this is a MySQL
configuration problem unfortunately.

FPDB hopes to build a  solid communiity of contributors and we like to
recognise everyone who has helped us out. For the latest list of
contributors please see
http://trac-git.assembla.com/fpdb/browser/contributors.txt which also
servers as a useful reference for who else is interested in the same areas
as you.

If you’re missing from this file please let us know. Full details of who
did what can be viewed in the git history.

Thanks and may the variance be with you.

The FPDB Team.

But wait theres more!
0.30.1:

   - Fix Stars tournament breakage
   - Revert patch causing accounting issue on all sites

0.30.2

   - Add support for new merge date format.

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2011	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr (2)	May	Jun	Jul	Aug (1)	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2012	Jan	Feb (3)	Mar (2)	Apr (2)	May (1)	Jun (2)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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