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Hi Monsternut,

Sorry about the delay in response to your question. I was off riding around Scotland for 5 days

I haven't seen that error before but it looks like it may be an issue with a different version of PostgreSQL...Can you tell me what version of Postgres you are using? (You can find out by opening the pgAdmin III program and clicking on your database server...it will say something like PostgresSQL 8.x . I need to know what the 8.x number is).

Are you on Windows XP, Vista or 7?

Does the error occur when you click on the "Connect" button or after selecting a database and then clicking "OK"?

Hi there
Iam using Vista. The problem occurs directly when I start your program. When I click the "Connect" button the problem occurs also. There are no databases listed in the box. The box is empty.
Iam using postgresSQL 8.2.6. I really don`t know. I tried it without a Antivirusprog and windows firewall turned off. Started as Admin etc. It all didnt work.

I have to say I had a problem with my database 6 months ago after purging some hands, I couldn`t connect to my database. But the problem didn`t occured since then again. And everything looks fine in Holdemmanager.

I remember I had a problem with postgresSQL two years ago and as I remembered I turned the pw query off and my database didnt need a password anymore. But Iam not sure about it. Because HM tells me Iam using the normal "postgrespass" Password. And I can see my databases in Holdem mnager if I use the database management option Iam connecting to the database with the pw postgrespass and it works fine. The port is 5432
and username ist postgres. So everything looks standart.

Sorry for my bad english. I hope you can help me solving the problem.

Hmmm 8.2.6 is an older version of postgresSQL and I haven't tested using that. It may be the problem but I won't know until I can set up an 8.2.6 install to check.

It's unlikely that your password is the issue since there is a different error specific to password issues.

Can you look for a file that is called settings.json and it will be located at C:\Users\Monsternut\AppData\Local\Slice\settings.json (replace Monsternut with your windows user name!) Open that file with notepad and it should look something like:

{
"autoconnect": false,
"database": "holdemmanager",
"game": "holdem",
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"user": "postgres",
"iterations": 600000,
"password": "postgrespass",
"port": 5432
}

If autoconnect is set to true, then change it to false, save the file and then restart Slice and try to connect again.

I hope we can get this sorted out for you. And your English is quite good

pretty nice

Thank you for your nice support. I copy paste the file you mentioned:

{
"autoconnect": false,
"database": null,
"game": "holdem",
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"user": "postgres",
"iterations": 100000,
"password": "postgrespass",
"port": 5432
}

Should I try to edit it with notepad on my own and set "database" to:"holdemmanager", and "iterations" to 600000?
Well I think I will try it
Btw the word "null" is the number "zero" in german. Maybe I should update PostgresSQL if the edit doesnt work?

edit: I edited the file. But nothing has changed. If I open slice the same error mesage appears when I click the "connect" button. And there are no databases in the box.

The iterations value isn't related to the settings file, so no need to adjust that. The rest of the file looks fine so it may be that the code I am using to connect with the database has some issues with Postgres 8.2.

I will see if I can install Postgres 8.2 on my computer and re create the issue you are having.

FWIW, Upgrading to 8.4 may resolve the issue and will likely give some performance gains over 8.2 for HEM as well. I don't know how easy it is to do that upgrade though, so you may want to wait for me to try 8.2.

And "null" is similar to "nothing" or "zero" in English too.

Ok I installed 8.2 and I can confirm that it is a problem specifically with Postgres 8.2. It works fine for both 8.3 and 8.4 versions I tried but I get the same error as you with 8.2. I will try to see if I can figure out what the problem with 8.2 is.

Hi Monsternut,

Please try downloading http://sliceeq.com/downloads/setup_slice_v1.1.1.exe

That version is now working for me with 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4.

Let me know how it goes!

Thank you mellowgold. Your program is working fine, now. But I must get some HU hands in to use the awesome marked hand function. If I get some bucks to FT soon I will probably buy the full license.

The full version is working with all 6max hands in my database, I guess? Can you confirm this? Thanks again mellowgold for your support.

Just found the ev++ homepage with some more tools. Looks nice too. With all the variance simulations etc. See you soon, dude. Keep on your good work.

Great! Very glad to hear it is working for you now!

Yes, the full version can do calculations with up to 10 players. The trial version will still load 6 max hands but it can only calculate equity for 2 players at a time.

If you're interested in purchasing the full version a different way (Moneybookers, click2pay, paypal, different poker site etc) just pm me and we can probably sort something out.

Yes the variance simulator has been pretty popular, I hope to get back and work some more to improve ev++ soon! Thanks

I just released a bug fix version (v1.1.1) That fixed the incorrect parsing of some ranges. Thanks to Hood for pointing this out to me.

Also I am working on a fairly major release with some new features and wanted to give people a look at some of them. There will now be save-able ranges that you can access easily in a drop down box:

http://sliceeq.com/downloads/screens/drop_down_range.png

and an improved Holdem Range Selection tool

http://sliceeq.com/downloads/screens/new_holdem_chooser.png

There are other things, but those are probably the two people will find most useful.

Work permitting it will be out sometime next week.


edit: Am I missing something or is there no way to post images on DC forums?

Work permitting it will be out sometime next week.

I was one day off on my estimate Version 1.2.0 has just been released and it has a bunch of new features!

There is a blog post outlining the new features (and a bunch of screenshots) but in brief they are:

Vastly improved Hold'em hand selection including control over suit selections

You can now save your favourite ranges and access them in a dropdown list when doing equity calculations

Slice now stores a history of your equity simulations so you can go back and rerun/edit them later

Hand equities values are now displayed beside the ranges so you can see them at a quick glance

Card selectors have been added for board and dead cards

You can now right click on a range to save it, or send it to the enumerator

Various cosmetic upgrades to make Slice look a little nicer

A new holdem hand ranking order contributed by Hood of http://www.sickread.com . Thanks Hood!

Hope people enjoy it and as always, please let me know if you have any issues.


**Also if a mod reads this, would it be possible to change the title to
"Slice - New Equity Calculator (v1.2.0 9/18/10)"
or something like that? Thanks.

I may have missed something, but does this support any of the mixed games(o8, stud, draw, etc) I don't use any tools because I play primarily mixed games

It currently supports Holdem, Omaha, Omaha 8, 7 Stud and 7 Stud 8/b .

Draw and razz will hopefully be available soon.

thanks for the quick reply, one more question since I'm new to any of this. What else do I need to purchase for mixed games that works with your program?