pacific hand history

DannyBoy · Goldfish Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 24

Are you able to get pacific to e-mail you your hand history? I was wondering if it was completely necessary to fork out for 2 pieces of software just to use poker tracker. Also it seems to have a limited memory of the games, i.e the history only shows them from a certain date onwards.

jslavi01 · Swordfish Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 82 Location: Philly

There are a couple things you can do...

1) I'm pretty sure they won't e-mail you your hand history. Other than that tab thingy they have, you're out of luck.

2) Think of "forking out money" as buying a nice piece of artwork that will only appreciate in value. It's an investment, worth the amount of time/money invested.

3) Pokertracker is great. It helped my game improve immensely. Mainly it'll help you see exactly why A9o and KJ is a crappy hand in first position in ring games.

What do you mean when you say "it seems to have ..." Do you mean pokertracker (PT) or the pacific histories?

DannyBoy · Goldfish Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 24

I've no problem with paying for tracker its just a little irritating that most rooms only require you to pay for one piece of software, whereas with pacific you need idleminer handgrabber as well.

I mean the pacific hand history, the earliest one is a game from the 1st april, I started using it around february.

jslavi01 · Swordfish Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 82 Location: Philly

Pacific and Bodog have different code for hand histories than other platforms. It's not actually pokertracker that's the problem...it's the program ; )

Because Pacfic's HH are so big and they do it in that crazy format, the filespace it takes for Pacific's servers to hold it is huge. (Take all your histories and multiply them by # of ppl paying, etc....) You get the idea.

Pokertracker converts that junk to a text file "as you play the hand" and imports it into an access database so you can search, replay hands, etc.

Handgrabber is worth it. It's like $25 or $35 or something. If you p0lay 4 hrs a week, it pays for itself in 3 sessions. There is an HH grabber add-on for Bodog now, too. Though no one has written a program for Sportsbook yet. A number of people have e-mailed Bodog and Pacific asking them to rewrite how their HHs are saved, but no dice.

DannyBoy · Goldfish Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 24

Yeah I guess it will pay-off rather quickly, will be nice knowing who are playing TAG-ABC poker and the people calling me down with T5off as well.

The only other thing is I doubt Hand grabber will work with the new version of pacific (they completely revamped it about 5 weeks ago and I re-downloaded to get the new version).

ah well, thanks for your help!