blonde poker forum

PokerManager.com has just been launched, a desktop application that is free to download.

 blondes can download Poker Manager here  (http://pokermanager.com/?aid=1315568351) 

As a new product its being soft launched and Mr Poker Manager has signed up to blonde to hear what you think of it, receive feedback etc etc

The founders of PokerManager tell me that they have spent the last 12 months on development and say:

“Our goal is to be a 1-stop-shop for poker players, every player should find something here”


So fire away with comments

Annette_15 Obrestad, the WSOPE winner and 2 EPT winners have been part of the development team.

PokerManager are offering for every blonde who signs up a free group lesson with Annette_15 where she will answer questions with the group for as long as you wish and sit and teach. Mr Poker Manager can fill you in with the details of this.

Cardplayer wrote on the product last month  See here  (http://www.cardplayer.com/online-poker/poker-beat/article/2928)

So there you are....let us know what you think

Nice one - am downloading as i type.

Will DL when i get home ty

is the group lesson for as long as we wish with Annette exclusively for blondes? blonde get paid for each sign-up? i don't understand, affiliate link but free site ???

blonde gets a small fee for every sign up yes

As for the free site part, thats Mr Poker Manager's area

She will sit and coach for as long as you guys keep here up :)

We pay Blonde for each download, but yes it's a freeware... nice huh??  :D

Inside PokerManager there are tons of features for you guys to use free of charge. IF you decide to download a poker client from a pokersite we will make some money on you...but you don't HAVE to download one...you can just stick with the one(s) you allready got :)

PokerManager use port 80

Just watched the demo, looks interesting will dl tonight :) thanks

Im gonna ask her why she beat me hu in a wpt ds and crushed my hopes and dreams..

Oh is it vista compatible I couldnt see on the site?

Just about to ask the same thing.. Will download when i get home if it is..?

yes it's Vista compatible
PokerManager use port 80

Ta

That looks great, will definitely give it a go later.

Stuck on logging in....
Been like it for 10 mins

Had no problems logging in here.

It played up for me too but I just tried to reg again and hey presto it worked. Looks great BTW shedloads of stuff going on on it. Will look more deeply another time but very impressed. BTW Thanks for the free download.

PokerManager use port 80 and does not work behind a firewall

Which ports does it use - as some people will want to use it behind a firewall?

the free lesson - is it poker related?  ;whistle;

not for you, you have no need

for the rest of us, oh yes

Yeah, it's poker related :D

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpVcvRWJfU

Local port 25068-25069
Remote port 3478-3479

Go it working but it now keeps saying user already logged in.

remember, let us know your early thoughts when you've had a play

he's talking about pokermanager - not your lesson Matt......

was about to ask whether his statement was poker related also.........  ;whistle;

I wouldn't dare!!

just logged in, looks good, plenty of videos , Wsop vids go all the way back to 1999.

How many poker sites are included in the tourney listings?, and how do we go about getting our free lesson?

The link doesn't work for me.  It opens another window but the entire page is blank and nothing happens.....

Registered no probs, however it stick a lot when on the tournament listing table.

Only had a very quick look and first impression it seems very in-depth, will need to spend some time in-depth on it.

Only question/query is how to filter the online sites on the tournament listings - is this possible?

Me too - seems all broked up.

Either that or there is some cunning player profiling algorithm in it which has decided there is nothing more it can teach Maria and I about poker.

Try a direct download link

http://pokermanager.com/rel/deploy/download.php?aid=1315568351

 ;kneelsucker;

we'll give it a while to see how many people we have to fit in

fnarr fnarr

Downloaded, installed and set up an account and logged in.
Had a quick look round, looks very good.
back to work now so will have a good look later.

First impressions  :)up

Link should work...just tried it myself  Aspades Ac

It's relatively tricky to stop the program loading at machine startup everytime (had to do a registry edit to prevent this).

Also, the access password is stored in plaintext in the system registry.

Dougie.

This is exactly the type of application I was referring to in a previous thread regarding reading hole cards etc.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=27395.msg577865#msg577865

start>run type "msconfig" startup and untick pokermanager.

Just removed it from mine.  Too much 'bloatware' for my liking.  Great idea, and I'm sure it'll improve in time.

I was thinking the same thing, going to have another look at it tonight while i donk my chips in the league game..

downloaded ok, but everytime i try and watch any video ,runs 3 secs and freezes like this all the time, i expected a bit more from the tools to be honest ,

You don't honestly think we have gone to all this hassle just to be able to read hole cards ???? :D

What internet line do you have?
The video's should run pretty smooth...we have stress tested the files simulating up to 5000 users watching the same video at the same time and that worked.

Tools will improve alot (!) for next version...

Well, let me try to convince you 

1. Do you ever watch poker videos? Inside PokerManager you will find the worlds biggest archive (do a search for "poker" and you will see there are close to 50 000 videos of various length)

2. Do you ever play a online poker tournament? Inside PokerManager you will find a tournamentlisting from almost every network available. I you are happy with playing just 1-2 clients, thats fine...but if you are like a lot of others having trouble finding just the right tournaments at just the time you want to play - well there you go...pop inside PokerManager and you will 99% certain find one within minutes

3. Do you ever wonder what your odds are/were? Inside PokerManager you will find a brilliant odds calculator. In addition you have an advisor that shows you on-the-fly advice (for those of us that not allways know their odds *blush* )

4. Do you ever read any poker articles? Well, inside PokerManager you will find the latest news and articles from the leading pokermagazine

5. Do you ever chat with friends on skype/aim/msn, but find it annoying when x-girlfriends wants to chat with you JUST when you for once ( ehh ) are playing poker? Inside PokerManager you will find a poker IM, and can add your pokerfriends there.

6. Do you ever miss the start of a tournament you really wanted to play (a satelite or something)? Well, inside PokerManager you can right click any tournament, add to calendar and voila - you will be reminded 60,30,15 and/or 5 minutes before it starts. (even by SMS in the next version)

7. Do you ever visit any forums/communities? Err...i guess you do 

(...and loooads more)

If you can't find 1 reason to use PokerManager, well maybe it's just not for you...hopefully you will give it a go though. We will do our best in constant developing it, and sooner or later we will have something that YOU also will find useful ;)

Oh btw..it's free, so you are not risking any hard earned € giving it a go

somebody's keen.............

he'll learn

and need jojoba balm for the scratchmarks on his back...........

I'm honestly not dissing your software / offer or anything, just unhappy I didn't find any option to stop load at startup without asking.

If your read the post I refer to, reading hole cards is easy, the hard bit is getting your code on a user's pc. Also, storing password's plain text is bad.

Dougie.

ihave AOL also have a firewall, any advice please

PokerManager use port 80, please open this in your firewall.

This didn''t happen to me, when I installed it I had an option to click/unclick "load at start-up" - (maybe my pc has this feature in it rather than the poker software though???)   

Have downloaded and using site very impressive so far.

A central banking system would be a good idea methinks.  It would be handy if we could buy into a tournament via the software rather than registering for each site when we want to play a particular tourney.

You'd give your bank details to them, and let them look after your money?  Not saying they wouldn't be anything but legitimate, but  you wouldn't know the first thing about their security.  It would also mean all the poker rooms giving them access to their secure transactional applications.  Not going to happen.

How much do you know about most poker room's security?

I don't.  But I don't want to add another link into the chain.  If a poker room does something with my money, I will speak to them about it.  I don't play for huge sums, and I'm sure they'd sort out any problems fairly rapidly.  If a third-party get involved, who is responsible if some money gets 'lost'?

It will happen, but it's VERY difficult to do. Probably will happen within 6-9 months

Whatever you do DO NOT "OPEN" port 80!!!
You can configure your firewall to allow this app to use port 80 but make sure it is not open to all, most of the old trojans/worms attack this port because it is the HTTP port.
I manually configured my firewall (ghostwall) with the ports i posted on page 2, this allowed it to work .

You'll soon break everyone's browsing with this kind of generic statement.

Port 80 is used for OUTBOUND connections (quite legitimately) for browsing.

Port 80 - INBOUND is if your hosting your own web server. This would be the default port.

Without getting into any arguments, I would not allow any application on my PC waiting to serve incoming requests on port 80.

Incoming requests for ANY APP trying to act as a server on your PC is bad news. You must trust the application 100%, otherwise they OWN your computer (or technically have the equivelant privleges as the user account you are running under - usually admin rights on XP home).


Dougie.

Isn't windows great!

Only when you have a 100% fresh air firewall from the internet  ;booder;

And even then I wouldn't be sure! ;)

Really?
How?
I said do not open the port fully as advised (the bit i quoted), astonishingly i don't just make stuff up.

BTW thanks for the lesson in port 80........................................................

Hi all

PokerManager will do an update late today or early tomorrow.


PokerManager

PokerManager are working 24/7 to improve our software and need your info and help.
If someone have a problem with firewall,
PokerManager would like the info so PokerManager
can fix bugs and other technical issues.
Post the name of your Firewall and version
Firewall name:
Version:

IFM - I think Ecosse was referring to the post previous to yours, and was agreeing and reiterating your statement.

Where can i go to stop Poker Manager sending me "Please fill in your profile" emails???   I've taken the software off.  Tried emailing in but the two email addy's I tried have bounced back to me.

It's very bad practice to send emails out to people without explicitly giving them a simple and obvious means of unsubscribing themselves from your mailing list. 

They are now dealt with by my spam filter, as like you said Michelle, there's no way to opt out of the emails.  I too uninstalled the application from my computer some time ago.


Maybe you could PM the representative who posts on here - and continue PMing him until your address is removed from their list?

I too uninstalled the app a week or so ago - the security 'issues' made me nervous.

Its starting to annoy me now as well...

mark em as spam.

What annoyed me was when I signed up there was NO option to opt out of receiving any kind of communication. I assumed (wrongly) that once I had registered and got into the software there would be an options filter in the account or something.

Will keep PM'ing the rep as you suggest Kin.   

just tried to update new update.apparently runs on all window versions but vista

This reminder will only be sent once a month (untill you fill in your profile), and we are including a "remove me from e-mail list link from now on"

PokerManager

Close PokerManager and run it again.
The update issue is already fixed.

PokerManager

Which was a bit hard to do seeing as I had removed the software  ;)

Will wait for next email with the added  'remove' link.

Thanks

I doubt you will have long to wait, Ive had 3 in the last 10 days.

Next email has arrived - still no "remove" link.   

Maybe mailbombing them would produce some  results ?

Has anyone been using this for a while now?  What do you think of it if so?

I was going to use it as it sounds excellent, but I tend to only play on a few sites and I find I just fire them up and don't really need this software to let me know what's going on.  Also, I assume it's collecting bits of info on me and I don't like that thought either.

I've explained (hopefully) in a few other threads why installing ANY software on your PC has to be treated with suspicion. Some relevant facts :-

1. 99% of XP home PC's will be running under the administrator account which allows any software running on your computer to do ANYTHING to said computer.

examples :-

Find every word document, excel spreadsheet on PC, send to third party.
Read entire registry in known locations for stored passwords (this software stores your password in cleartext in your registry)
Capture every key you press and the web site you are visiting at the time, send to third party.

Above is so trivial to any half competent programmer, you must be so aware and carefull with installing software from unknown sources.

I'll preach again, and mention VMWARE and running a virtual machine for each and every one of your banking / finance / poker site visits.

It's relatively straightforward for PC savvy people but can be a serious challenge for those not technically minded.

Anyone needs any pointers on what to do just give me a shout.

p.s. Anyone still using this software should be extremely cautious in my opinion. The constant emails etc do not give any re-assurance whatsover and as mentioned the software is technically very security-unconcious.

Dougie.

They need to change their strap-line:

 No deposit No Signup No Bullsh**, No unsubscribe link

Enough is enough -- application uninstalled