I finally bit the bullet and started doing some heavy reading on getting wine to work. I checked the wine database and found someone claiming they got the client program from www.paradisepoker.com to work under wine. It installed fine but when I went to start the client it went crazy and froze X.

Anybody had any luck getting a poker client to work under wine? I already e-mailed the good folks at www.ultimatebet.com and asked them what there deal was with a Linux port. I got the impression that they aren't rushing to get it to work with Linux.

Dam the man!

You can always try www.pokerroom.com

But I would like to user ultimate bet too. so if you get it working and vice versa, let me know. thanks!

Believe it or not, the only reason I still have my laptop as a dual boot system with XP is to use ultimate bet. I've emailed them and told them that they should support Linux but you know how that always goes over. Keep an eye out at wine's site. New application are being supported daily.

any updates on this? I would be 100% M$ free if it wasnt for the fact that I like to play poker so much.

I'm bringing this thread back from the dead. Any updates on this? Does it possible work with CodeWeavers plugin? Anything?

I've been trying to get pokerstars to work under Wine..... no luck.

Anybody had any luck??

PokerStars and ParadisePoker work for me.
I use Mandrake 10.0 and the wine version that came with it (wine- 20040213-3) including all libwine.
All I did was install wine, download and install WineTools from http://franksworld.net/winetools.html, use winetools to install fonts.

When I tried to install UB, the only error I got was that I needed to have IE installed on my system.... I'm not sure how this helps, I'm not proficient enough with linux but is there a way to "emulate" IE on a linux box without actually having IE installed... I admit, I tried installing it (got stuck at 84% v.5)

About to try installing Paradise under slackware 10.1. Anyone got this to work under slack?

And about the IE thing I think you can get a plugin for Mozilla that makes it available to windows programs that complain about not having IE.

(Bumpz0r!)

I too have tried to get Ultimate Bet to work. Unfortunately I'm not fully there yet but I just got Internet Explorer 6 installed with the help of the Sidenet wine configuration utility. Very nice program. You can download it here: http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html
Remember to choose "Custom" during IE installation because otherwise it will try to install, among other things, Media Player too and that didn't work out at all for me (although it might work for you).

Now Ultimate Bet passes its installation but when starting it I get a message saying "Could not load . Check your configuration!" That's where I am now. If someone else solves this I too would be very happy to hear about it here.

I was able to reproduce the "Could not load . Check your configuration!" message in windows by renaming the resSplash.dll file to resSplash.bak. However, the error message I get when I do that is: "Could not load C:\Program Files\UltimateBet\resSplash.dll. Check your configuration!"

From this I concluded that UB in Wine is not able to load the PATH to the resSplash.dll file (otherwise, it would not be empty in the error string). I think it may be a problem with UB not being able to read the registry properly (the path to the resSplash.dll is stored in the HKLM\UltimateBet\UltimateBet registry key). In fact, when I delete the entire UltimateBet registry key from the registry, I get the same error message.

Also, I played around with the DllOverride settings in the wine config file. I systematically went through each DLL that UB loaded and switched the setting from native to builtin and vice versa, but it didn't make a difference. I'm confident it is an issue with the registry. When I have more time, I'll try to debug this further...

Hmm, this is an interesting question, as I'm sure I'll be wanting UltimateBet on my new machine. Of course, I'll likely have a 98se partition anyway just for old DOS games. (though this is looking less likely what with linux ports of ScummVM and DOSBox. <3 the emulation/abandonware scene.)

(Yes, this post is a bump in disguise. Sue me.)

Finally, I got UltimateBet working using CrossOver 4.1. Here is how I was able to consistently reproduce it:

1. Uninstall any previous crossover installations
2. Install crossover
3. Install IE 6 (using the crossover setup program)
4. download the UltimateBet setup program (ubsetup.exe)
5. run: NOTE: You will see the "Could not load . Check your configuration!" error message and maybe some other error messages during this step. Just ignore them and close the (broken) UB client that automatically launches.

6. then, execute the following commands:

The critical steps above are:
1. set the WINEDEBUG environement variable to "+reg" to activate registry related debug messages
2. add the "--cx-log ub.log" flag to wine so that debug messages are turned on. NOTE: instead, you can use the "--verbose" flag, but that will output a lot of garbage to your console window.

As to why this works, I'm not exactly sure. My guess is that activating registry debug messages causes some DLL or shared library to load. This then allows the UB client to properly pull out registry info (and get the correct path to the resSplash DLL and the other files in the UB directory).

I haven't tried this yet with earlier versions of crossover or with regular Wine, but if someone else gets it working with either of these, please post here and let me know.

Good luck!

Another update. It turns out you only need to do the above steps once. After you run UB for the first time (using the WINEDEBUG variable, etc...), you don't need to do it again. Just run "ultimatebet" from the command line and it will run fine.