Poker Mavens 4.05 Released

[Kent Briggs]

Upgrade page:

http://www.briggsoft.com/patches.htm

Changes:

Added a preferred seating option with a new "Rotate seats" function to table menu. This allows a player (or observer) to rotate the display of the seats to any position at any time. Includes a cool animation effect. The setting lasts until the table is closed.

Added "Smallest chip" option to ring game settings. The buy-ins, rake, blinds, and player bets must always be in a multiple of this value. For example, if you have a game where the buy-in is in the millions, you might want to have a smallest chip value of 1000 so that all player bets must be in multiples of 1000. Or you could have fractional chips enabled on your site but at some tables you only want whole chips so you could set the smallest chip to 1. Note: 1 is the default value for this setting so existing ring tables that use fractional chips will need to be edited manually after upgrading.

There are new strings in the Language tab corresponding to the new commands listed above.

Added new API commands: RingGamesOpen and TournamentsOpen. These functions allow you to open a table for a specific player after they have logged in. Not to be confused with the existing startup parameters that will open tables during the login process.

Added K/M/B suffix option to manual betting in client. Players can now use these shortcuts when manually entering large bets. Appending a "K" (e.g., 12K = 12000) will multiply by 1 thousand, appending "M" will multiply by 1 million, and appending "B" will multiply by 1 billion. Fractions can also be used (e.g., 1.23M = 1230000).

Added cache busting parameters to file links in HTML file. Some people have complained of version mismatch errors after upgrading. Beginning with 4.05, a "&Ver=4.xx" parameter will be included in CSS and JS links in the HTML file. Note that this technique will not actually kick in until 4.05 is cached and you upgrade to 4.06 or later.

Fixed duplicate login entry bug in client. Under certain conditions, a player who disconnected and reconnected could get listed twice on the client side Logins tab.

Fixed a bug in Refresh Table command. Previously, if you executed this command while the cards where animating, it would lock up the table until you requested it again.

[Kent Briggs]

Gold version owners should pay particular attention to the red note in the release notes above if you have ring games that use fractional chips. If you upgrade without manually changing the "Smallest chip" setting to a value less than 1, then any attempt by a player to place a bet less than 1 chip will cause it to round down to 0 and will be treated as a fold. I will fix this is 4.06 so that Gold sites default to 0.01 instead of 1.00.

I'm also aware of a bug in the new Rotate Seats function where the betting chips are not rotating with the seats. That will also be fixed soon in 4.06.