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Bodog Poker Results No Longer Being Collected

thepokerdb — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:10:37 +0000

Bodog’s latest software update introduced some pretty radical changes to their poker client. A significant feature included as part of this update is what they are referring to as “all-site anonymous tables,” which basically means that they no longer shows player’s screen names. All players are now simply numbers at the table (player001, player002, etc.). In a press release, Bodog stated, “This feature stops poker pros accessing any data on how you play your game via the use of HUDs and other data mining sites.” We apologize for the obvious inconvenience that this will cause you, but until Bodog reverses this feature, we will temporarily halt all Bodog tournament data gathering.

thepokerdb – buddy list emails

thepokerdb — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:52:10 +0000

Over the past few months, we were experiencing problems with the emails being sent when buddy list members cashed in a tournament. This issue has been resolved. The backed up queue has been purged, but you will receive all emails for notices going forward.

AP/UB Missing Tournament Results

thepokerdb — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:36:58 +0000

Our feed was having issues, and we are missing a few results from AP/UB from the 9th through the 20th of January. We’ve made the request to AP directly, and we expect to have the data inserted within the week. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause for you.

Missing Full Tilt Data Filled From March 21-24

thepokerdb — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:25:24 +0000

Thepokerdb experienced a four-day gap of missing results from Full Tilt from March 21-24. None of the data was lost as we have a back up system in place in the instance of occurrence like this. Today, April 1, we have completed the backfill of the missing data. All of the missing data was filled successfully.

Should you have any Full Tilt results still missing from that period, please send an email to support at thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com. Please include your Full Tilt screenname, the tournament ID, and the date the tournament took place.

Thepokerdb Upgrades and Big Things On the Horizon

thepokerdb — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:57:14 +0000

Thepokerdb has been taking steps to ensure players not only get all of their data, but get it faster than ever. Over the next several weeks we will be rolling out updates and improvements in the way we deliver data. We have some big plans in 2010 to improve the overall efficiency and user interface, as well as, bring you exciting new tools and features.

To begin, all PartyPoker and Bodog results are now being displayed in real time. This includes all of Party Poker’s MTT S&Gs. No longer will you have to wait 24 hours to see your results posted to your profile. It’s our goal to display real time results for all of the networks we support.

We had experienced whole days of missing data from CEREUS and PokerStars due to a bug in our system. We have identified and eliminated the bug causing these gaps. The missing data has been filled and please report any missing tournaments to the support team at thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com

Also, the highly popular 180, 90, and 45 person MTT S&Gs at PokerStars are no longer included in our results feed. However, we still have a system to capture these results. Please send an email to support that specifies you have a PokerStars MTT S&G result and the tournament ID in the body of the email. You will receive a reply email with a link to tournament results.

To improve the functionality and add new features to thepokerdb we have added additional staff. We have some big plans in store for some new features to thepokerdb in 2010. We are more excited than ever and believe that thepokerdb will again be the industry standard in MTT data tracking.

FullTilt Missing Tournaments

thepokerdb — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:46:03 +0000

We discovered a glitch in the FullTilt importer that caused us to be missing a few select tournaments over past few months. In total, we were missing about 200 tournaments, and they have now been inserted into the database.

AP/UB Tournament Results

thepokerdb — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Our feed from AP/UB has been unreliable over the past couple months. We’ve been in contact with them, and the issue has been resolved. However, there are still results missing from this time frame. We are working with them to obtain a back-fill of the missing tournament results. Please be patient as we work through this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thanks for the support.

Full Tilt Poker update

thepokerdb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:14:51 +0000

We apologize for the continued delay getting Full Tilt Poker collection back up and running. We anticipate having a complete data set for the month of July once we implement our new collection system. All missing tournaments should be restored. We hope to have everything up and running this week but it is possible that the delay will stretch into early next week. We’ll post here with more updates once we have more information.

As we’ve already stated, we will adjust subscriptions to compensate for the downtime. Thank you for understanding.

Full Tilt Poker (continued)…

thepokerdb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:32:11 +0000

We’ll have the Full Tilt feed re-established within the next couple days. Once we have this done, we’re going to go ahead and extend all db subscriptions by an extra 2 weeks to accomodate for the gap. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Full Tilt Poker

thepokerdb — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Hi all, we’ve temporarily suspended collection of Full Tilt Poker tournaments due to a software update. We are working to restore our data collection as soon as possible but there will be downtime due to the unfortunate timing of the update. At this point, we are unsure how many tournaments will be missed however we are going to try to keep it to a minimum. Unless Full Tilt is willing to cooperate with BLUFF on this issue, we will have permanently missing data from the db.

We’ll post here again as we know more.

PokerStars 180 Person SNG’s

thepokerdb — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:28:02 +0000

PokerStars recently changed the results display of the 180-person and 90-person SNG’s. Players that did not participate in the tournament can no longer view the results. Instead of listing the players in the result box, they display the following message, “Additional tournament information is available to the tournament participants only.” This has altogether eliminated our ability to collect the data for these tournaments. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please forward your complaints to support@pokerstars.com.

Sunday Major Tournament Historical Results

thepokerdb — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:34:31 +0000

Did you know that BluffMagazine.com has “archives at a glance” of all of the major poker tournaments? This data includes, but is not limited to, the PokerStars Sunday Million, PokerStars Second Chance, FullTiltPoker $750,000 Guaranteed! In addition, you can also check out all of the Most Recent Tournament Cashes over $50,000.

CEREUS (AP/UB) Tournament Result Feed

thepokerdb — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:34:48 +0000

We had a slight issue over the past week. We were still collecting all data, it just wasn’t processing into the database. We’ve alleviated this problem, and all of the tournaments from the past week have been inserted into the system. We apologize for the delay. Again, zero data was lost.

2009 Online Poker Player of the Year

thepokerdb — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:50:23 +0000

Bluff Magazine updated and released the 2009 Online Player of the Year numbers. Because the numbers lack relevance during the month of January, all links and promotion remained concentrated on the 2008 Online Player of the Year statistics. All of the Bluff Magazine’s Online Ranking numbers are updated on Wednesday of every week.

Online Poker Professional The Maven completely dominated the month of December, which lead to his being crowned the 2008 Online Poker Player of the Year. Read The Maven’s interview about how he was able to achive the goal of obtaining the OPOY honors.

Welcome to the thepokerdb blog

thepokerdb — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:12:04 +0000

With the launch of the new bluffmagazine.com, we are also launching a new blogging platform. With the new platform, it gives us the flexibility to easily add new blogs and let all sorts of new bloggers start using our system. One of those new blogs is going to be a blog devoted specifically to thepokerdb, Bluff’s online poker tournament tracking database.

In terms of history, thepokerdb was founded in May 2005 by Nat Arem and Paul Shamilov. It was developed initially as a beta but, upon proving popular, was relaunched as a production-level site in the fall of 2005. Over the following 12 months, thepokerdb’s traffic and popularity increased by leaps and bounds prompting an acquisition by Bluff Media in December 2006. For the following few months, Bluff developers worked to redevelop thepokerdb and integrate it into Bluff Magazine’s website. In late March 2007, thepokerdb was moved from thepokerdb.com to bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb and version 2.0 of the site was finally live. On January 29th, 2009, the latest version of thepokerdb (very similar to the previous one in terms of function, but taken to the next level in terms of design) was rolled out.

Going forward, we hope this blog will serve as a resource for us to communicate with thepokerdb’s valued users and subscribers. We will be posting regularly as bugs and problems arise, along with information about bug fixes and how we resolve any future issues. As this business is constantly evolving and technical issues are always coming up, we can’t promise that everything will always be correct — that’s where you can help. Report issues to us. Leave comments on this blog. Explain the problems that you’re seeing and what the data should look like. It’s nearly impossible for us to keep up with every bit of data from every site, so we rely on you to be our eyes and ears for many of the minute problems that can arise when collecting enormous amounts of data everyday.

Thank you very much for years of loyalty and we hope you like the new design,

Nat Arem
thepokerdb.com founder

UBOC Series Tournaments

thepokerdb — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:06:12 +0000

UBOC Series All of the tournaments in the UBOC series were initially missed by thepokerdb’s scrapers. The problem has been solved and the results will be posted shortly. If you see that we have missed any of the events, please send the tournament ID to thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com and we’ll get it inserted right away. We apologize for the inconvenience.

PokerStars Missing SnG’s

thepokerdb — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:09:18 +0000

The latest release of the PokerStars client caused some data gathering issues. They have since then been alleviated, but from the 5th of January through the 10th of January, we missed a few of the multi sng’s. If you feel that we’ve missed any of your results, please send the tournamentID to thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com and we’ll get it inserted right away. We apologize for the inconvenience.

UB Tourneys missing

thepokerdb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:47:40 +0000

On 11/25, UB changed their coding to match Absolute Poker, finalizing the Cereus Merger. With the change, all UB tourneys have been showing in thepokerdb as AP tourneys. We have been working on the problem and will have a solution to it shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank everyone for their patience.

UB & AP Merge Into One (Cerius Network)

thepokerdb — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:19 +0000

UltimateBet and Absolute Poker have finally transitioned into the single network of Cereus. We’ve been told that both platforms will have the same tournaments listed in both lobbies at all times. Since both platforms are running on the same network, some player names were changed. We’ve been promised a list of the name changes, and will make appropriate database changes when we receive the list. Since they are duplicated results, we are planning on only providing results for one of the platforms – yet to determine which one.
Please be patient with us during the migration.

Full Tilt Results Missing

thepokerdb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:50:30 +0000

On 10/13, Full Tilt released a software upgrade that caused our system to show $0.00 for all places finished. This affected tournaments played on 10/13-14. We are working with Full Tilt to fill in the numbers and should have them fixed very soon. Thanks for your patience.

update: all missing tournaments have been filled.

Absolute Poker Tournaments

thepokerdb — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:23:53 +0000

At about 1:00 AM on October 1st, Absolute Poker stopped displaying their completed and running tournaments on their client. Surely this is something that the are going to reverse back, but until then, we have no way of obtaining results for AP tournaments. I’ve contacted one of their lead developers and now waiting for his response. We’ll keep you all posted.

thepokerdb 404 error

thepokerdb — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:34:45 +0000

We’ve experienced a technical difficulty for a few hour this evening with the links to player’s profile pages. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. We’re going to be adding an extra 2 days to all subscriptions as a token of our apology and gratitude for your patience.

Hand History Paster – Added Functionality

thepokerdb — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:25 +0000

If you’re a pokerdb regular, then you already know about The Hand History Paster. This page allows users to copy a hand history from most of the online poker sites and paste it into the text area for submission. The result screen provides easy access to all of the players at your table. We’ve now enhanced this user-favorite with additional functionality. The results screen now contains a table with the most critical player data immediately available.

Pokerstars Data Problem- UPDATE

thepokerdb — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:23:24 +0000

We have 1200+ tourneys that are missing data. We are manually adding them all to the system and should be fully updated by Monday 8/21. Due to this problem, the weekly rankings will not be done this week. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank those who’ve taken time to send in missing tourney id’s.

PokerStars Data Problem

thepokerdb — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:41:05 +0000

We are currently experiencing problems with collecting NL holdem tourneys from Stars. Some tourneys are showing incomplete data. If you see any tourneys that are missing/incomplete, please send a tourney id# to thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com and we”ll fix it within 24 hours.

thepokerdb Subscription – Payment Change

thepokerdb — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:37:56 +0000

Contrary to the e-mail we sent to all members, we will no longer accept PokerStars transfers for db subscriptions. Any PokerStars transfers received after today will be sent back. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UltimateBet Satellites

thepokerdb — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:27:42 +0000

We just discovered that some of the UltimateBet Direct Entry Satellites have not been getting captured over the past couple weeks. The issue has been resolved, but if you discover that you have not received credit for any of these tournaments (or any tournament in general), please let us know about it by sending us an email to: thepokerdb@bluffmedia.com.

404 – page not found

thepokerdb — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:46:45 +0000

During an upgrade, we experienced an issue with redirects on our web servers this morning for about 4 hours. This caused the player profile pages and the ranking pages to display the 404 error page when attempting to hit these pages. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
- Jeff Markley, VP of Online Operations, Bluff Media

FullTilt Refill

thepokerdb — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:54:26 +0000

Full Tilt Poker released new software on May 1st, and it created an error with the way that our programs were processing the collected data. To eliminate the discrepancy, we are deleting all of those tournaments and results and refilling the database with the corrected data. We started the process at approx 9:00 PM EST. It should be completed within a few hours. There will be no data gaps.
Additionally, we’ll have to re-run rankings for the entire month of May. Look for that update before the end of the week. Thank you for your patience.

Website Service

thepokerdb — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:44:00 +0000

The website went down for about 20 minutes this evening at around 7:45 PM EST. We experienced a technical issue while upgrading server equipment. We apologize for the delay.