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Jan
03
2010
Pokerstars 2 tabling on iPhone
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Hunter
Can you post a screenshot of VNC on your iphone playing 2 tables? Would love to see what it looks like. (To take an iPhone screenshot, simply press the sleep button at the top of the iPhone 3GS and the home button at the same time. - it stores them with your pictures). Alternatively a picture of the iphone playing would be cool.

Good luck with your goals!
I'm not sure what VNC stands for Hunter, but I did as you requested and took some screenshots on my phone. I use the LogMeIn Ignition iphone app. I'll have my gf bring her camera over sometime and take pictures of me actually playing the thing. It takes getting used to, must have a strong signal, there is some lag, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.



Signing in, PS lobby. The black bar at the bottom is your control bar, right to left... 'X' is exit out of the application... the little keyboard icon, self explanatory, it will bring up the standard iphone keyboard... the mouse icon, allows you to switch between right/left click buttons as they would work on a regular mouse... the magnifying glass w/ '+' is obv zoom, but I use two finger swipes that all iphone users are accustomed to for zooming in/out, quicker/easier... the gear wheel is for settings, you will use this a lot mainly for changing the your home pc's screen resolution and such...the last icon is for ctrl+alt and ctrl+alt+delete.



Zooming in on lobby.



2 tables.



Zooming in on the left table.



Panning over to the right table.



Right table zoomed in.



I posted oop, ATo utg.



Stantard raise. Not really, but I wanted to show action.

Note: unlike a mouse which controls your cursor on screen/mimics the movements of the mouse, the cursor/arrow is static on the iphone and you move the screen around it. So as you can see in the above screenshot, I scroll my screen down to put the arrow/cursor over the action button (raise to $1) I'm using. I also have mastered tapping the sliding scale so I don't have to type in my bet/raise amounts. If your already an iphone user it's extremely intuitive/very similar to the thumb taps/finger swipes you're already used to using.





Taking it down pre.




Folding the BB. Note my desktop icons in the background. The app is simply a remote desktop control. It freaked my gf out at first when someone (me) was playing poker on our home pc and no one was there/on the computer... she could see the mouse cursor moving around, hear the bells and dings, etc. I opened up notepad once and typed in "I can see you"... told her what she looked like and so on, it was funny, but she figured it out.

Note: Thumb taps = left clicks on a mouse. So a double click on a mouse is two quick successive taps on the iphone screen. For poker purposes, one tap on the action buttons = one left click on the action button you choose. If I were raising or increasing a bet size I'd move the screen so the cursor/arrow would be over the bet slider and I'd tap out my bet in BB increments. If the pot gets big where tapping takes too long, I will just type it in by putting the cursor/arrow over the bet amount box and then clicking the keyboard icon and typing in the amount... again, sounds like a lot, but it's seocnd nature after a few hours.

There are numerous other little tricks and tips you'll discover, the relationship between screen resolutions and lag, zooming in/out while multi'ing, how to pan/swipe efficiently, etc. Hmmm, what else? You'll need a good 3G or WiFi signal, the app will drop on occassion in the middle of a hand, but so long as you're not playing on fast tables, you should be able to reconnect/log in before you timeout. The app is $30 I believe. Hope that helps, any questions ask away, I'll answer best I can.

Later

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01-03-2010
toocrispy is offline toocrispy
if only HEM had an iPhone app u would be all set
01-03-2010
jaymesbond is offline jaymesbond
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is this worth it, cuz ill do it just to say i can
01-03-2010
kamillion is offline kamillion
just got the droid. you think i can to it on that?
01-04-2010
EyeAmFirReel is offline EyeAmFirReel
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@toocrispy,

I run HEM w/out the HUD when I play, fortunately at my limits the player pool is so huge and the stakes so small, I'm not missing much/at a disadvantage... In fact, I'd say it has helped/forced me become a much better hand reader and spot patterns/leaks/targets more efficiently.

@jaymesbond,

It's worth it for me. My work pc and laptops are all connected to our "monitored" network so I can't play at work on them when I find downtime. I could bring my personal laptop in, but company policy allows security audits of any non company machine you bring in, etc. I guess it depends, laptop w/ wireless is obv ideal, but if that's not an option this is the next best thing imo. I figure instead of playing brickbreaker or tetris I might as well improve my winrate.

@kamillion,

I'm sure there is or will be in the future a remote desktop control app of some sort for it. It's a pretty "hot" phone so it's hard to imagine there not being one. Perhaps google the makers website of LogMeIn Ignition or any app you want for the droid platform and try contacting them/requesting it. A lot of these app makers are just a couple programmers/side giggers looking to make a buck, so you should find them to be more responsive/timely than a major company might be.
01-30-2010
Donkadocus is offline Donkadocus
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You CAN use HEM because you just run it on your home PC you are remotely logging into
 
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