PT4 HUD Circles Display / Backgrounds / Vs Hero Stats / Placemint

Here is the link for zip files available for download on Google Sites: (click file - wait few seconds to appear - click top right download icon)

Link: PHD_$_Thiefs_Zip_Files

Image directory of files

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Good Read, Highly Recommend It !

Fritjof Capra's entitled book Web of Life, has a section on Chaos Theory, that explained gambling in a different light. It helped me understand my gambling problem (horse handicapping).

Fritjof Capra Book Web of Life

It's also an excellent book on how sciences, art, math and life's systems, are all interrelated. Sections of the book are a bit dry and require an additional read or two, but well worth the time and effort.

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HUD Display Circles:

Sometimes you only need to know the range of values for a stat then the exact number. This is where circles display symbols can help you react quicker to decisions.

This is the font file to download for the HUD Display Circles: PHD_$_Thiefs_HUD_Circles

Make sure to select REGULAR for font style and confirm settings after saving HUD options.

This is the format that the stats must be in to be displayed DEMO-TESTVPIP.pt4stat

If the number is at 100 % at the start of a game (VPIP 1/1), then you will get two circles for a hand or two. You can further customize the stat or make the value of 10 transparent, lighter color, or solid black (color ranges must now be 0-10 instead of 0-100 values).

Use a separate Hands stat group as they fit nicely in the player's avatar location.

Install Font:

Unzip it to a directory and open the directory c:/Windows/Fonts in a separate window. You have to copy the file over by DRAGGING the file to the Fonts directory (important). Make sure to select REGULAR for font style and confirm settings in PT4 after saving HUD options for your profile.

Testing Out Rectangles Indicating Short Stacked Players / Table Backgrounds:

Testing out a font with rectangles in order to recognize short stacked players quicker and adjust accordingly.

I use different colors at the bottom of the table backgrounds to indicate type of games (SNG / Hypers /Satellite / MTT / Cash)  or their late stages ( ITM / Bubble / Short Stacked / Chip Leader).

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I'm Back

Increased the size of the I'm Back button which displays clearly in the AHK PokerStars Stacked previewer as mentioned below.

I'm Back  button is located at the C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\themes\nova\green\ctrls directory with the file name bb.png (which you can edit the size and color of the image in Paint.Net).

I'm Back  button is same size but colored red.

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Backgrounds

You can download the table background colors for NOVA Theme here: PHD_$_Thiefs Table Colors.zip

You can replace any of these five tables at these directory locations for the Nova Table Theme.  Use AHK scripts to automatically change the table color and background.

• Silver.jpg  = C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\gx\backgrounds
• Red-Carpet-Nova.jpg  = C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\themes\nova\green\backgrounds
• Poker-Room.jpg   =C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\themes\nova\green\backgrounds
• Metallic-Floor-nova.jpg  =C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\themes\nova\green\backgrounds
• Nova.jpg   =C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\themes\nova\green\backgrounds

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Variance Is Like Insanity:

Losing with the best hand over and over,

and expecting different results.

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Placemint Blind Sorting Format:

Using Placemint with Blind level sorting. Created additional AHK scripts to automatically color table felts and backgrounds, for various game types.

Placemint built-in features include defining window slots sizes and saving configurations.

Placemint can be configured for many various setups, with the ability to change configurations while playing (MTT's. HYPERS, SNGs, RUSH / ZOOM, cash ring, .......).

Can be used as a simple free utility in sorting all of your different games into appropriate window slots (pause option). It provides built-in features, such as window slot sizing and regex expressions for your poker tables.

Link to test / learn REGEX expressions:  Rubular.com

Twoplustwo thread for Placemint here:   PlaceMint: Window Positioning Tool  that you can copy and use.

Warning: Placemint has randomly wiped out table xml configuration setting files. Backup / copy your Placemint directory, or at the very least these files:

PlaceMint_settings.xml
PlaceMint_slotTemplateList.xml
PlaceMint_regexList.xml

Include your configuration files as well to avoid repeating all that work again.

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Editing PokerStars Card Back Colors:

This color scheme is from Twoplustwo thread (includes download link), from the original poster: PokerStars Card Mod

These are some of the colors that you can change your cards too. You can even use them to color code your table type, ITM, bubble, Final Table, Satellite.....

It's a simple process of downloading the UnoDeck Cardbacks.zip file and extracting it to a directory.

Next, copy the deck_preview_back.png file to the directory
C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\gx\chips&deck\deck\preview

Then copy the three remaining files (medback.png, smback.png, back.png) to the directory
 C:\Program Files (x86)\PokerStars\gx\chips&deck\deck\default

Now start up PokerStars and select the card back colors of your choice.

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Stars Filtered SNG Opener

Works great for multi-tabling with Placemint. I only use version SFSO_4.01a and have had zero problems.

Here is the link:  http://starscash.googlecode.com/files/SFSO_4.01a.ahk

Here is the forum Twoplustwo thread: Stars Filtered SNG Opener

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The Opener: The anything launcher

Another very useful AHK script utility that will start all of your programs at once. You can use it for different poker sites and configurations, or for any applications. 

Here is the forum Twoplustwo thread: The Opener: The anything launcher

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T-Clock 2010 Alarm / Timer / Launch Menu:

Great free utility that you can easily set up reminders (alarms) for registration and adjust the size of your windows clock (including seconds).

Alarms can be set using custom sound waves and / or custom pop-up windows with configurable text.

Other useful features included and you can download the clock here T-Clock

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Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders

If you have two computers and play on more than one poker site at a time, this free product can help you. 

You can use each computer's keyboard for hot keys, and share one mouse between the two computers.The mouse will allow you to zero in on post-flop play and still allow you to execute the auto folds via keyboard.

This also allows to share the clipboard between two computers and one mouse / keyboard.

Download Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders

Support Forum Mouse_Without_Borders

It can reduce lag and provide additional backup if one of your computer's gets toasted. You have to have Windows Firewall running during install (can be disabled later).

Running Windows 7 Homegroups will allow updates between the computer databases (PT4) via auto batch import / export files.

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"Tilt"

Passive-Agressive Regret:

Hand you shouldn't have played...

Hand you should have played ...

Hand you constantly replay ...

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Another Microsoft free product called  SyncToy 2.1 that I tested. Works as advertised in synchronizing directories between computers.

Here is the download link:  SyncToy 2.1

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Puran Defrag

Free utility to defrag non-SSD drives. Helps boost performance with slower / secondary computers.

Puran Defrag Download Link

Disable additional smart indexing to decrease defrag time.

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Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer v 1.2

Allows you to increase the size of your poker tables thumbnails. This free utility can increase or restore your settings back to default within seconds. 

Here is an actual example for comparisons (not maximum thumbnail size settings):

Here is the link for download: 

Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer v 1.2

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Internet / Hardware Connection Problems?

See this post on the twoplustwo forums on ideas

in isolating your problem: I_Am_No_Doctor

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Mirror HUD

PokerTracker vs Hero Stats:

I uploaded the PHD_$_Thiefs Tournament - Mirror HUD vs Hero in the download section (see Hand Range Pop-ups post for further details). The will track all of your attempts and steals from the HJ, CO, BTN, SB positions that would be recorded from other players if they have a HUD on you.

This does not work with the version of PT4 1.11.6 (unless you have a small DB of less than 100K hands) , I have made mention of it to the PT4 devs in their twoplustwo forum thread.

Load up your PT4 Replayer and test out the values while you give it a try. I did not get a chance to document the stat descriptions, so excuse the mess.

These custom stats display all of Hero's attempted steals and steal opportunities that Villain was seated at the same table (Mirror Villain's HUD). Hero Positions include the SB, BTN, CO and HJ positions, with specific vs Hero stats that Villain was involved in (Challenge Hero), displayed below them.

PT4 Forum Support thread on Vs Hero Stats

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Full Tilt Poker & PokerStars Stacked Previewer:

I edited this from the AHK forum to activate between Stars and FTP tables:

Stacked Table Previewer TwoPlusTwo Thread

Code:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
GroupAdd, Poker, ahk_class QWidget,,,Full Tilt Poker
GroupAdd, poker, ahk_class PokerStarsTableFrameClass

Numpad4:: ; Next Window
WinGetClass, CurrentActive, A
WinGet, Instances, Count, ahk_class %CurrentActive%
If Instances > 1
 WinSet, Bottom,, A
WinActivate, ahk_group Poker,,YourPokerNameHere
return

Numpad5:: ; Previous Window
WinGetClass, CurrentActive, A
WinGet, Instances, Count, ahk_class %CurrentActive%
If Instances > 1
 WinActivateBottom, ahk_group Poker,,YourPokerNameHere
return

Use your Pokername in the exclude so you don't get the cashier / main lobby / Trny Lobby in the previews

You can quickly detect tables that you are sitting out from with the enlarged I'm Back button.

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Rush Hotkeys:

You can try this AHK script that creates a green border around the active table and the following keys set as (test it out on play money or micro stakes first).

FTP-FOLD-Borders-June23-2015.ahk

Edited Border color AHK script from this link:  GDDWNB

**You can edit the color and size of border** 

Fold = Space:, Numpad0, or WheelUp
TimeBank = T
Next window =  Numpad3,  or WheelDown
Max = NumpadADD
Call = Numpad4
Bet =  Numpad7
1ST Tab = Numpad8
2nd Tab = Numpad9
Suspend = Q

Replace the text YOURNAME with your exact FTP player name.

Example: WinActivate, ahk_class Qt5QWindowIcon,,YOURNAME

Adjust the hotkeys if required. Also you can use Window Spy from the AHK script to edit table locations. 

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Stats to Help Identify Chip Bleeds in Your Game Using PT4 Graphs:

Download these PT4 Graph stats here:  Chip Bleeds PHD_$_Thiefs.zip

EARLY / LATE GAME:

I use the blind level size of 150 or more as late stage, and less than 150 as early stage.

DOMINATED HANDS:

Greater than 65 percent (AT vs A2, 66 vs A5)

Less than 35 percent  (T9 vs KT, 99 vs TT)

Coin flips between 35 and 65 percent (KJ vs A7, QT vs 33)

Helps to answer the questions (in BBs):

"Are your good hands holding up?"    /    "Are your weak hands getting lucky?"

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MOBILE HUD / EXPAND HUD POPUP:

Using solid bars as a font, here is the HUD in normal game play and when expanded (7 Font regular and 24 expanded were used here). Player names were only used in the Expand HUD popup:

Install Font:

Download the edited font here PHDTHIEFS-Font-zipped

Unzip it to a directory and the file MyFontphd22.ttf will be extracted. Open the directory c:/Windows/Fonts in a separate window. You have to copy the file over by DRAGGING the file to the Fonts directory (important).

Now you can start PT4 and go to the option of Edit Hud Profiles. Make a duplicate of the HUD you always use.

Select all of your stats

"you can highlight all of the stats in your group easily by clicking in the Group Items area on the Hud Editor and pressing ctrl+a. Then you can edit the font size for all stats at once"

and now select the option of Font in Item Properties.

In the list you will see a font called PHD_$_Thiefs and select it with the font size that you want.

Select APPLY and your HUD should look like the first image (make sure that you have selected it as the new HUD profile).

Create a Popup Group called Expand HUD and duplicate all of your stats. This time select all of the stats and increase the font size to a much larger number, as seen in image number two. The font type will be your normal font selection that you always use.

You can adjust the HUD font sizes until it suits your setup (mobile, multi-tabling, laptop). Create separate HUDs and popups for each.


You can use the number of color bars as an indicator of potential losing or winning plays, depending on how you create your color ranges.

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PartyPoker Table Theme & Cards Mods with Paint.NET

You can edit some simple PartyPoker files with the free program Paint.NET v3.5.10 (download here: Paint.NET ) and take this basic PartyPoker Techno table theme from this:

To This:

What I did was edited the table layout to two tone grey, place a yellow rectangle across players that have folded, made the avatars solid black to read the tables easier, and colored all the aces yellow in the deck to make them easier to identify.

Here are the edited PartyPoker files and saved in their original directory:

avatar.PNG
avatar_disabled.PNG
Table_Carpet.JPEG

C:\Programs\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\Images\NewGameTable\Techno

cards.PNG

C:\Programs\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\Images\NewGameTable

Set the cards to actual size before editing the aces in Paint.NET v3.5.10 .

Paint.NET v3.5.10  is a very easy program to work with and you can customize the table theme to your liking. Here are additional images:

You can also do the same with the OpportunityAlerts1.jpeg file to alert you to premium cards, by turning your table felt red:

You can always reinstall PartyPoker software to restore your table themes to default if you run into problems.

Color Full Tilt Poker Notes / Holdem Manager / Poker Tracker

Full Tilt Poker Notes

"With Full Tilt Poker notes, you have to manually import them into the xml file with notepad. Full Tilt Poker software cannot be running during the import in order to have the players colors / notes changes take effect."

The following batch files can be used to color Full Tilt Poker Notes exactly the same as PokerStars Notes. The only difference is in the color batch file line that writes to the Full Tilt Poker XML file.

Each color batch file must be edited as in the following example.

"You must disable Real-time protection in Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE if enabled), or it will cripple the amount of time to complete the batch files sorting (MsMpEng.exe)."

Here is the modified PS-0-Note.bat file for Holdem Manager:

PS-0-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
 if /I %%b gtr "0.001" if /I %%b leq "0.1" echo ^<NOTE PlayerId= %%a ColourIx="0" Text="" /^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)


Notice that

echo ^<NOTE PlayerId= %%a ColourIx="0" Text="" /^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt

has been changed from

echo ^<note player= %%a label="0" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt

for the Full Tilt Poker Notes XML file.

Your Notes file is located in your installation directory where the Full Tilt Poker directory is located and the notes file is named after your player name (example: PHD_$_Thiefs.xml).

Full Tilt Poker has 14 different colors so you can edit the batch files to use colors from 0 - 13.

You can alter the size of the FTP Note Icons to any size:

 

• FTP application is not running 
• Backup / rename (original) file RankDiodes.PNG
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Full Tilt Poker\Graphics\NewTable\Common\Pod\RankDiodes.PNG
• Edit the file in Paint.net
• Select menu options: Image / Resize
• Choose option By Percentage
• Select a value greater or less than original
• Save file in same location 
• Start FTP to see the new sized FTP Note Icons

FTP With Larger Sized Notes

 

Color PokerStars Notes with HM2 Holdem Manager PT4

I can color my PokerStars notes in 5 minutes compared to 4 hours with Notecaddy (even while you are playing online).

These batch files can also be used in the original Holdem Manager & original Poker Tracker. Option to bypass my custom PT4 filters, and used with Poker Tracker 4 with minor modifications to the batch files (takes only about 10 minutes for the whole PT4 database).

There is no ZIP file to download. You can just copy / paste the following batch files posted into a notepad file and save / create your own Batch files.

"You must disable Real-time protection in Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE if enabled), or it will cripple the amount of time to complete the batch files sorting (MsMpEng.exe)."

Step 1 :

Create a report (Report.CSV) of all your players in the HM2 tourney database. Only select the player's name and VPIP stat as viewed in this image:

Step 2:

Run the batch file HM2-Color-PokerStars.bat (in the same directory as Report.CSV location) . Your directory will look like this after the batch file is run.

Step 3:

Follow older posts on how to import your HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt into your PokerStars Notes Import (even while you are playing online). Make sure the imported XML file is the same color codes as your original Pokerstars Notes XML file.

You are Finished ! Update your notes any time based on VPIP. The batch files can be edited to include more variables then the VPIP stat.

Batch Files:

 You can just copy / paste the following batch files posted into a notepad file and save / create your own Batch files.

Poker Tracker creates an additional set of quotes for the VPIP variable for each player in the Report.csv file. Edit each PS-?-Note.bat file's quotes on the third line, for the variable %%b. The quotes are removed like this:

PS-0-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I %%b gtr "0.001" if /I %%b leq "0.1" echo ^<note player= %%a label="0" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)


The following  batch files contain the instructions for HM2.


Each Color batch file (0-6 label) is set as default that can be edited to your liking:

Color 0 = .01 - 10 %
Color 1 = 10 - 15 %
Color 2 = 15 - 20 %
Color 3 = 20 - 30 %
Color 4 = 30 - 40 %
Color 5 = 40 - 50 %
Color 6 = 50 - 99.9 %


This batch file (HM2-Color-PokerStars.bat) deletes previous batch executions, sorts bad player names, calls a batch file for each color label which appends all the color files into one for import.

The color batch files (PS-0-Note.bat) can all have their VPIP values edited by replacing the numbers in quotes to whatever you want. This is 10 - 15 % in PS-1-Note.bat (gtr "0.1" if /I "%%b" leq "0.15"). this can be edited to 15 - 25 % like this: (gtr "0.15" if /I "%%b" leq "0.25")

Make sure all color batch files are changed if the percentages are changed in the quotes, so that all percentages are covered.



Copy and paste the following batch files in notepad to create your own batch files (saved with same names). The batch file is expecting the txt files to be located on the c: drive, so edit the drive letter, copy to c: drive, or remove the drive letter, if needed:

HM2-Color-PokerStars.bat

Del HM2-BAD-Name-Players.txt
Del HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt
del HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
FINDSTR "< > \""" C:Report.csv>>HM2-BAD-Name-Players.txt
FINDSTR /V "< > \""" C:Report.csv>>HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt
call PS-0-Note.bat
call PS-1-Note.bat
call PS-2-Note.bat
call PS-3-Note.bat
call PS-4-Note.bat
call PS-5-Note.bat
call PS-6-Note.bat

PS-0-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.001" if /I "%%b" leq "0.1" echo ^<note player= %%a label="0" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-1-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.1" if /I "%%b" leq "0.15" echo ^<note player= %%a label="1" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-2-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.15" if /I "%%b" leq "0.2" echo ^<note player= %%a label="2" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-3-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.2" if /I "%%b" leq "0.3" echo ^<note player= %%a label="3" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-4-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.3" if /I "%%b" leq "0.4" echo ^<note player= %%a label="4" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-5-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.4" if /I "%%b" leq "0.5" echo ^<note player= %%a label="5" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

PS-6-Note.bat

@ECHO OFF
for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=," %%a in (HM2-GOOD-Name-Players.txt) do (
if /I "%%b" gtr "0.5" if /I "%%b" leq "0.999" echo ^<note player= %%a label="6" ^>^</note^>>>HM2STARS-READY-to-IMPORT.txt
)

Color Your PokerStars Notes While Playing Online

PokerStarsNotes.xml:


Updated the PokerStars utility file, (download here Color-Stars Notes-Online-2nd.zip), which requires only one batch file and one PT4 filter to color code all of your players in your database. The statistic is automatically included in the filter.


This file eliminates the need for the multiple batch files and PokerTracker filters in the previous post. The steps are greatly reduced, but the concept is the same.


You can color code players while you are playing against them, before / after sessions, or at breaks. It only takes a minute to update the players colors that you have played (or presently playing) against that day (other commercial products require that you be logged off Pokerstars).

Readme.txt file explains the purpose of each file and displays the lines of text in the filter and statistic, that gives you the ability to edit the VPIP settings for each color (see post below for color scheme).


I also use the PHD_&_Thiefs NOTE color BLUE to label all the players on the bubble or close to it, so I can follow their tables (Satellites & Tourneys).


The three PT4 filters are set up to color code your whole database (first time), within the last 7 days, or just played against "Today" (which is the fastest update). It took me over an hour to color 85K players the first time, but daily updates takes less then a minute.


Read the earlier post on how the color coding works, by only using batch files and PokerTracker filters


Step - 1:


If you can locate your PokerStars notes file (see post below), make a copy of it to another directory, and then open the file in Notepad++, you have just completed half the work involved.


Edit that Stars notes copy in Notepad++, by deleting all players names but one, or just creating a unique named player. Now Run Pokerstars and import your modified notes file (see post below) and search for the new player name you have just created.


Step - 2:


Now that you are familiar with PokerStars notes, simply import the filters into PT4 from your directory holding the extracted files.


Run the filter report and export the report results into the same directory in text called ReportExport.txt. Make sure that ALL DATES is the selected option in the Date menu, when you run your reports, to tabulate their LIFETIME stats of Today's players.


Step - 3:


Run the Create-Stars-Color-Labels batch file and it will create a file called PT4-Color-Labels.txt from your report that you exported (ReportExport.txt).

The batch file is expecting the txt files to be located on the c: drive, so edit the drive letter, copy to c: drive, or remove the drive letter, if needed

Open the file PT4-Color-Labels.txt in Notepad++ and copy the contents into your duplicate PokerStarsnotes.xml, that you already have loaded in Notepad++ (see post below). Save the file and import it into Pokerstars notes Import option.


Step - 4:


You can update your color notes anytime, and as many times that you want. I leave the files loaded in Notepad++ and just answer yes when Notepad++ asks to reload them.


After I save the notes xml copy and import it, I then select the option of UNDO to remove the previous players names and just copy and save the new players over it (from PT4-Color-Labels.txt).


Finished:

Once you are comfortable importing and coloring, the option of coloring new players at your tables are done within a minute. You never have to manually color another player again (unless identifying bubble players), or log out of PokerStars to do it.



This is what your directory will look like after extracting the Color-Stars Notes-Online.zip file.

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