The hand converter nears its first public outing, I think.
I’ve managed to include some security and validation, so I’d feel a bit more comfortable about making it available now. Not that I expect a bunch of attacks straight away or anything, but judging by the level of spam comments that have started finding their way past Spam Karma and onto my blog, I feel I ought to take some precautions. Plus, all the stuff I’ve been reading about PHP security has scared the whatsits out of me.
As for the hand converter itself, I’ve added a couple more sites, although there’s still plenty to go, and No Limit games are handled right now, as far as I know. Also, I’ve spent some time tweaking the handling of all-ins. And it all works very nicely, although at the moment I won’t be able to cope with more than one player going all in during a hand. I’ve not tested on that eventuality, but I suspect the pot-sizes would become inaccurate for one thing. I should be able to easily sort it with an array, though, which is my usual lazy fallback…
Should be available to all and sundry by the beginning of next week.
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2 Comments on Poker Hand Converter update
Hi, I added your hand converter to our wiki list of similar projects at poker.wikicities.com. However, I couldn’t find a link to actually download it — maybe i just haven’t looked hard enough. At any rate, i hope we all can benefit from cross-project communication.
cheers,
Philip
Philip, thanks for adding a link at the wiki to my converter. However, the page you want to link to is Hand converter rather than the link you currently have.
When I say I have made the tool available, I do not mean that the source is available for download at the moment. Initially, I had password-protected the page so I could allow a small but select group to beta test the converter for me. I have now taken that protection off, and anyone can use the converter.
Perhaps at some point I will make the code available, but I don’t think it’s quite ready for that yet.
Regards,
Neil