"Options" Window

After the first start of the program you’ll see the “Settings” window. You must choose the Poker Tracker database that will be used by the program (by default Tracker creates ptrack.mdb database, if you didn’t do own database, choose this default file). “Poker Luck Meter” supports both Access and PostgreSQL databases. For Access database you must enter path (press “…” button, by default database is in the Tracker folder, usually C:/Program Files/Poker Tracker V2/). For PostgreSQL database you must enter its name (pay attention that the database name can differ from the name you see in Tracker; to find a real database name check Control Panel/Data Sources (ODBC)/System DNS), username and password (those must be the same as in Tracker). After entering all necessary data for Postgre database press “Open” button (Access database opens automatically after choosing). If the database opens successfully, a list of players will be loaded (loading of the list takes some time, then further on when you open “settings” window you’ll have to wait a little while the list is loaded; my database has 18.000 players and it takes about 3 seconds to load the list). Choose any of your nicknames (do not choose opponents’ nicks – as it was mentioned before, you will not get correct results for other players). If you play in several rooms of one network and you unite several names under one nickname in Tracker (using “Alias” feature) then to analyze all united names set the flag “Use aliases”. Choose the type of games you want to analyze – cash games or tournaments (by default the cash games are set). You can see either all games played or just the games where you didn’t fold. If the flag “Only hands not folded on preflop” is set, then on “Preflop” page all hands will be analyzed, and on all other pages only hands not folded on preflop will be available. You can also set the date filter: set the flag “Use date filter” and enter the date range (when you set the flag both date fields will have the current date). The program will analyze only the hands played between 0:00 of the date “From” and 23:59 of the date “To”.

When you are done with the settings you can exit without accepting changes (press the button “Cancel” or close the window using standard Windows means). You can save the changes for future use (press “Save” button) or you can use the settings in the current session without saving them (press the button “OK”). After the first launch of the program it’s recommended to save the settings, otherwise you’ll need to reset them after each start of the program. The settings are recorded into Windows registry, Current User part, so make sure you have the rights to write into this part of the registry. I must warn you that the program will not work if the Tracker database isn’t chosen. You’ll be requested to exit the program or return to the settings to choose the database.

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