HoldemResources.net News

2012-05-08, Beta Web Calculator: Internet Explorer Bugfix

Updated the Beta Web Calculator to a new GWT version. This means the "blank page" issue in recent Internet Explorer versions should be fixed now.

Please let me know if you still experience problems.

2012-05-06, Automated Requests: Part II

I can only reiterate that if you need some batch calculated data off my site, contact me. If you only need a one time batch calculation, i will probably make it available to you for free if you ask. These things take minutes to generate offline, yet people insist on spamming the server with 100k+ requests instead of writing a simple mail.

I made the raw HU equilibrium data available here, since that was "asked for" recently.

A general note on automated fetching:

• Some of the scripts i have seen recently must be the most inefficient way to automatically fetch results from a site. If you are already loading via script, do NOT fetch css/image data for every single request.
• Doing error handling in the form of: "while(error): try_again" is not cool. Some scripts went berserk on the server because they did not "understand" the daily IP limit message and just kept sending the same request over and over again.

I added some more measures to prevent massive request spamming. Hopefully this will not affect regular users. If you are just manually surfing the site and get blocked, please let me know about it.

2012-04-23, Web Calculators Update

Updated the web calculators with the latest changes from the downloadable client project. This includes some major performance improvements for the web beta, and a minor equity bug fix in 3-way pots. (The 3-way equities were previously off by about 0.1% compared to PokerStove.)

2012-04-15, Automated Requests

There has been an increased amount of automated requests to the Nash Calculator content recently, causing performance issues during the peak hours. Tools to automatically generate links for single hands are completely fine (e.g. the links SnG Wizard generates). Using mass requests and automated result parsing to calculate thousands of hands is not.

As multiple users were sending way beyond 1000 hand requests per day, i had to implement a daily maximum per IP. It is currently set reasonably high and should not affect any regular users. Some of the most blatant cases of request spamming are permanently IP blocked. Please contact me if you feel your IP has been blocked by mistake.

PS: Sorry to the Hungarian guys who were temporarily blocked today!
PPS: Hi to the 2 IPs running a combined 200k+ hands on 5th-9th of April. Please try to contact me first if you ever need to run something like that again, thanks.