Most casinos show very valuable info in the titlebar, for example

Tournament 12345678 Table 5 - No Limit Hold'em - Blinds $600/$1200 Ante $75

Valuable informations in the example above (PokerStars) are:

• the game-type: tournament (and no-limit)

• the size of the blinds: $600 / $1200

• the ante: $75

Besides of valuable info the titlestring comes with some technical benefits:

• it is usually very reliable

• it can be accessed easily with the Windows API (GetWindowText) and does not require any scraping.

Therefore OpenHoldem provides a way to interpret the titletext:

In the example above

• “^*” followed by the constant string “- “ recognized and discards everything until it finds “- “ in the titlestring. This means the title-parser will skip “OpenHoldem Poker - ” because this data does not provide any useful info for us.

• Again there follows a dummy that needs to be skipped. “^* - blinds ” will ignore everything until it finds “ - blinds ”.

• Now comes the first interesting piece of data. “^s” expects a numerical value, here “5” that will be interpreted as the size of the small blind.

• “/” is a constant string that will be ignored. In our exaple it separates small-blind from big blind.

• Finally “^b” works similar like “^s”: it expects a numerical value too and interprets it as the size of the big-blind.