• Quickly see the winning and losing players in your database.
• View normalized ranges for various stats.
• Display bell curve stats based on normalized ranges.

Stay Tuned because the Opponents – Player Analysis video is next.

Brian Sax was born in the snow-swept, almost apocalyptic landscape of Minnesota. As his parents were unable to have a second child, Brian suffered from a pathology known as Single Child Syndrome and might never have overcome his intense self-absorption were it not for the beckoning world of computers, where his obsessive energy could be harnessed for good instead of evil (at least as he tells it).

After completing his college degree in computer science, he spent many years working as a developer and later as an IT consultant, till he decided one day that playing poker online was a more fruitful application of his time.  Of course it helped that he was friends with one of the best online mid-stakes NL players at the time who offered to tutor him.  

At his prime, Brian was a 2-4 NL Holdem 6max reg, yet after playing a half million+ hands of online poker (riding the high highs and low lows as well as could be expected by a perfectionist) his mind began to ponder potential software that could give one a competitive edge in the fiercely challenging and ever evolving world of online poker.

It was in this moment that the seed of invention was planted in his mind, which after much labor would blossom into the innovative IHUB software which allowed for radical insight into an opponent’s psyche. He was approached by Holdem Manager and contingent that he (mostly) be allowed to keep his poker instilled degenerate sleeping habits in exchange for integrating IHUB technology into Holdem Manager 2, he joined the team. 

When not taking ample liberty to write about himself, Brian can be found tweaking the Opponents tab, sorting out filters that have run awry, or tightening the load time on your favorite report.

The other good news is SNG Wizard is getting a major overhaul.  Current SNG Wizard users will get this upgrade for free!

Name?

A.       Dennis Bragg

How long have you worked for Holdem Manager?

A.       Almost 2 years.

What specific part of Holdem Manager do you work on?

A.       Everything except the HUD.

Anything interesting about your past work experience?

A.       Nope.

Have you done any poker side projects in the past?

A.        Wrote the SitNGo Wizard.

What is your favorite variation of poker?

A.       NL Holdem tournaments

How often do you play every week?

A.       None, I'm stuck in the U.S.

The month of December has seen huge progress with HM2 poker software.  Many of the launch problems are resolved.  We’re still working on a few issues.  See this HM2 poker software forum post for the current open issue hit list.

Since we released a few builds without a blog post I’ve put all the build notes here for the recent releases:  

12/19/2011 HM2 Build 2.0.5944
* 3675: Player Analysis Date Filtering/Culture Issues – Fixed
* Unhandled Exception affecting some users when hovering over popups
* Notecaddy fixes

12/17/2011 HM2 Build 2.0.0.5939
Featured Updates:
* 3587 – Zoom graph doesn't update the graphed hands tab
* 3758 – vertical spacing reduced
* 3754 – Add ability to color code popup stats
* 3254 – Replayer plays in time/date order rather than sort order
* Replayer now shows all stats or session stats
* 3534 – Add feature for the "Use STats up to Day of Hand" option in replayer
* notecaddy update & color coding fix

All Updates:

Reports
* 3543 – Raise vs 2+ raisers is blank in reports and is empty upon restart
* 3215 – Active Report is not remembered switching from cash to tourney

Tournaments
* 3679 – Make sure table size does not exceed tourney size
* 3411 – Tourney buy-in filter doesn't accept decimals
* 3781 – Fix tournament tag matching issue
* 3729 – Fix tournament $EV stat
* 3804 – Apply poker site time adjustment to tournament times
* 3701 – Populate tournament summary window for all tournament reports

Hud
* 3758 – vertical spacing reduced
* 3738 – Issues with popups having black lines where notecaddy notes should be
* prefs.bak file and default file loading if prefs.xml file corrupted
* 3813 – Hud not on all everest tables
* 3803 – cant assign range greater than 100 to name
* 3861 – colored popup stats issue with won when raised and c/r
* 3754 – Add ability to color code popup stats
* 2710 – prima mtt issues

Replayer & Hand View
* Replayer now shows all stats or session stats
* 3534 – Add feature for the "Use STats up to Day of Hand" option in replayer
* 3254 – Replayer plays in time/date order rather than sort order
* 3780 – Replaying hand in Note Caddy causing crash
* 3572 – Export to clipboard in hand viewer doesn't work
* 3661 – Hand View showing wrong hand
* Fix for replayer not showing when using the replay option in settings while playing live

Graphs:
* 3587 – Zoom graph doesn't update the graphed hands tab
* 3760 – Changing to Days or Months in ITM graph causing crash
* 3842 – Fix session details graph display in sessions tab

Filters:
* 3744 – Player Won or Lost BBs is less than filter only showing hands won
* 2209 – Add Stack Size filter option to opponents tab
* 3705 – Need filter added for facing cold 4bet and cold 4bets
* 3736 – Date range – Last: all in black
* 3746 – Filter for Buy-In Issue
* 3737 – Date Filter Editing In HM2 vs HM1
* 3817 – Basic Filters > Saw Turn/Showdown dont work

Culture Issues:
* 3563 – Stat analysis empty in RU culture and also empty for player aliases
* Culture updates for replayer
* Fix for culture issue loading saved date filters

Parsing:
* 3596 – HM1 DB imports missing hands
* 3566 – 16 hands missing from Minted Poker import
* 2249 – Winamax HU SNG – No $EV Calculated
* 3611 – Parsing reads Stars MTT wrong

Apps:
* notecaddy seek fix
* notecaddy update & color coding fix
* Don't show items in the caddy report unless it is marked to be shown in a popup
* Leakbuster Update

Misc
* 3766 – HM Sync blank if you are not logged in
* 3551 – Autolaunch works several times
* 3748 – Crash on startup affecting a small % of users
* 3788 – Check for invalid auto import folders
* 3815 – Cash Results Widget causing lag
* 3845 – Fix crash in active session TAB when using refresh
* 3351 – All Stakes/Game Types Import & HUD Works When Playing Live Regardless Of License Type Held
* 3761 – Currency cutting off GBP in settings

12/7/2011  HM2 Build 2.0.0.5846
Featured Updates:
* 3247 – Flashing on Prima Tables
* 3609 – ongame.it not being found without table finder fix
* 3274 – vs. Hero stats not showing up on some sites like Ipoker
* 3489 – Fix restore to existing database
* 3592 – Fix updating of report column averages on date filter change
* 3593 – Fix missing average footer stats in reports
* 3590 – Opponents / Summaries (Add column averages at bottom)
* 3386 – Windows XP freeze when clicking "My Licenses"
* 2894 – Tourney appears in reports only after restart or long delay
* 3278 – Turning off known cards should remove the hero's equity in graph
* 3572 – Export to clipboard in hand viewer doesn't work
* Performance/CPU issues update
* Notecaddy bug fixes
* Various culture bug fixes (more fixes to come)

All Updates:

Parsing
* 2438 – Wrong Blind Levels for Microgaming SNG
* 3629 – No rebuys Showing Up
* 3558 – Stars FPP Satellites not reported
* 3087 – Replayer not showing hero stack until after a couple of action
* 2156 – Party 10man $11 Speed SNG Wrong winnings/rake
* 3321 – Field Size off on imports and fixed issues with stats not updating in HUD and reports
* 3333 – Import Speed Issue with some Ipoker Hands, may fix hanging import from 1.0 issue
* 3161 – Import issues with Ipoker Hands
* 2862 – HUD not updating for players with certain characters in their name

HUD
* 3639 – won last 5/10/20 popup color fixed
* 3247 – Flashing on Prima Tables
* 3561 – 3bet Vs. Blinds has large stats gap
* 3633 – winamax 6 max and 9max HUD fix
* 3293 – street by street Ipoker fix
* 3632 – add stat color range fix
* 3610 – Total Fold to Steal default set to less than 0 and greater than 0 – cannot change until turning it off, then on
* 3609 – ongame.it not being found without table finder fix
* 3274 – vs. Hero stats not showing up on some sites like Ipoker
* 3495 – Overhang setting stops HUD updating
* 3544 – Allow negative ranges for win rates
* 3545 – Name stat shows as default winnings in hud and popups
* 3237 – Corrected default Popups
* 3658 – Fixed Everleaf Tournaments not attaching HUD

Database Manager
* 3489 – Fix restore to existing database
* 3595 – Warn user when database version may not be compatible with the requested operation
* 1911 – Do not allow HM2 to close until all delete database operations have completed

Reports
* 3645 – Fixed duplicate reports problem
* 3592 – Fix updating of report column averages on date filter change
* 3593 – Fix missing average footer stats in reports
* 2491 – Stack Size reports should be broken down more – to show different ranges of size
* 3419 – Add select all option to reports context menu
* 3517 – X-out of all Reports leads to No Hands Found

Opponents/Sessions
* 3541 – Opponents – Analysis pop out needs a min size/refresh/player buttons need to stay in screen
* 3590 – Opponents / Summaries (Add column averages at bottom)
* 3589 – Opponents/Summaries – Can’t change Min hands or vpip when refresh appears
* 3693 – Sessions report – filter by last x hands – puts all into one session

Filters
* 3546 – Filter by bet size Greater Than doesn't fit in the drop box
* 3525 – Time filter crash
* 3634 – Need an upper limit box in Effective Stacks between filter
* 3644 – Fix hand filtering
* 3688 – Update date filters after changing the day start time
* 3694 & 3688 – Fix date range issues with start of day
* 2209 – Add Stack Size and Stack Size in BBs filters
* 3581 – Date filter between crashes when time not set
* 692 – Loading this filter causes crash
* Various culture issues with filters

Home
* 3386 – Windows XP freeze when clicking "My Licenses"
* 3542 – Cash Results Widget
* fixed hm public video widget

Stats
* Added 5bet range to HUD
* Changed positional vs. 3bet display name to make clearer
* Changing display names on 4bet positional stats to make them more clear
* Removed situations where 2 players raised before it came to the SB or BB from being a blind steal attempt
* Modified calculations to determine what type of flop it is: limped / raised / 3bet etc. Main change was to ensure limp re-raises do not count as 3bets and to ensure some other situations didn't fall into limped pot
* Added DidRaiseUnraisedPot property to HM2PlayerHand
* Fixed a couple of stats typos
* Broke down facing CBet for Turn and River to the same level as Flop i.e. Raised Pot, 3Bet, 4Bet, In Position / Out Of Position, 20 new stats
* Broke down Facing River Bet into 3 bet pot/ single raised pot/limped pot and IP/OOP
* Fixed typo in vs. raise on river and flop
* Fixed all the four bet range stats to use PFR vs. unraised x 3bet %
* Modified FacingThreeBetFromPlayer In/Out Of Position def to not allows sets and instead calculate value
* Limp Reraises were being included in position vs position PFR
* Fixed overall limp chances to not include hands limped to the BB when in the BB

Tournaments
* 3606 – Apply filters to tournament summary pop out view
* 3412 – Fix custom tournament tag filtering
* 2894 – Tourney appears in reports only after restart or long delay
* 3556 – Implement Show EV adjusted in tournament summary pop out window
* 3603 – Fix report graph of tournaments with no tag

HM Apps
* LeakBuster Update
* Fixing replayer in LeakBuster

Replayer/Hand Viewer
* 3278 – Turning off known cards should remove the hero's equity graph in bottom of replayer
* 3254 – Replayer plays in time/date order rather than sort order
* 3460 – Fix replayer highlight locations

Misc.
* 3649 – Passwords appear in log file
* 3314 – Auto Rate default rules need adjusted for stat name changes
* 3556 – Implement Show EV adjusted in tournament summary pop out window
* 3685 – Possible fix for null object exception
* 3687 – Site time AutoDetect sets wrong time for Ipoker and Prima
* 3616 – Heat Map should show sample size in the box
* 3529 – Multiple Numbers After Decimal in Heat Map – Tournaments

Even with HM2 development going full steam ahead we’re still committed to supporting HM1.  The latest HM1 build released on 12/17/2011 addresses the following issues:

* License Failure Fix – Will need to re-register license
* Everleaf HUD not attaching automatically
* Ongame HUD not shown after reseating on some MTTs

The new blog is now live and will be updated much more frequently moving forward.  We’re planning some contests with giveaways, more developer interviews and a whole bunch of poker related content. 

HM2 Poker Software is close to another release.  Programming is working day and night to polish HM2.  Here are a couple build features I caught from an internal email:

• Zoomed graph displays graphed hands
• Full stats in Replayer
• Color coding popup stats – (New feature)
• Stats up to day of hand in Replayer
• A couple crash fixes
• Parsing fixes
• Cultural and Hud fixes
• Notecaddy issues fixed
• Leakbuster update

What turned out to be a small update turned into a big one!

Stay tuned for more information.