Bovada Hand History Converter Software

[Seraphim]

Yeah, I'm a bit confused. After following the directions in the tutorial pokertracker is telling me that I played 10 hours on the 3rd of this month and played 400 hands while 4 tabling 6max....that's not possible. I'm also missing about half my winnings from that day. The converter says it found 15000 hands but I've only played 9k over the course of 2 month's. Oh and I only get duplicates when I run the hands through pokertracker now. The duplicates match hands downloaded in the converter.

 

[John A]

If your table gets down the 6 or less players, it will tag it as 6max. You have to setup your PT to auto archive the imported files, or it will list old hands as duplicates when you import. This won't effect anything, it will just list them and take a little longer to import.

 

[or3o1990]

I hate to be a burden but I'm having a small problem. I have been using the converter without any issues until just lately. Until lately the converted hands were being moved into the original hands/export file and the original hands to the original hands file. I uploaded some hands yesterday and it took pt4 forever to upload them and then a notice I've never received before popped up asking if I wanted to choose the year the hands were played or select to have the file date used. I just click file date. When I went to upload them again today I noticed that both the new hands and the old hands were going to the same place, the original hands file. I'm unsure of why this changed or how to change it back..

 

[Seraphim]

If your table gets down the 6 or less players, it will tag it as 6max. You have to setup your PT to auto archive the imported files, or it will list old hands as duplicates when you import. This won't effect anything, it will just list them and take a little longer to import.

Thanks for the reply. I've looked around for awhile now and I can't find anything on auto archive. Could you be really cool and tell me how to do it please?

 

[Seraphim]

Johnnnnnnn...save me!

 

[John A]

I hate to be a burden but I'm having a small problem. I have been using the converter without any issues until just lately. Until lately the converted hands were being moved into the original hands/export file and the original hands to the original hands file. I uploaded some hands yesterday and it took pt4 forever to upload them and then a notice I've never received before popped up asking if I wanted to choose the year the hands were played or select to have the file date used. I just click file date. When I went to upload them again today I noticed that both the new hands and the old hands were going to the same place, the original hands file. I'm unsure of why this changed or how to change it back..

You selected the processed folder when you imported on accident instead of the converted folder if you got that message. You'll just need to re-import from the correct folder.

 

[John A]

Thanks for the reply. I've looked around for awhile now and I can't find anything on auto archive. Could you be really cool and tell me how to do it please?

For which database are you using? The auto archive is from the pokerstars site setup of whichever database you're using. They are different depending on which one you're using. You can also just periodically manually move the files also.

 

[or3o1990]

Hey John, I'm noticing that all of my hand histories that are being uploaded into my pt4 are all out of order. When I go to review a session I almost never have 100bb's at the start.. I don't know if I'm loosing hands or what.. Any advice? Also, do you use pt4 or hm2? I just turned on the hud stats and it says some of my opponents have 6k hands? This can't be accurate can it? Or do the HH files and pt4 remember your opponents even though they're anonymous while playing?

 

[or3o1990]

It's starting to seem like I am definitely loosing hands when converting them. I've been documenting the table and hand numbers of trouble spots and trying to locate those hands in pt4 and I'm unable to sometimes..

 

[BluffMeAllIn]

Hey John, I'm noticing that all of my hand histories that are being uploaded into my pt4 are all out of order. When I go to review a session I almost never have 100bb's at the start.. I don't know if I'm loosing hands or what.. Any advice? Also, do you use pt4 or hm2? I just turned on the hud stats and it says some of my opponents have 6k hands? This can't be accurate can it? Or do the HH files and pt4 remember your opponents even though they're anonymous while playing?

Because of the anonymous thing pt4 tracks imported bovada hands via positioning, so if you have played 6k hands then there would be roughly 1k hands vs each position (if playing 6max)....pretty much the only thing in can comment on regarding this however.

In regards to how the hands are being imported "out of order" as you say have a look at the hh's downloaded from bovada....perhaps there is something in the way they are downloading that they might be out of order already so it would be more a bovada thing than a converter/pt4 thing.....just a thought since it can only convert and import as good as its downloaded......but i know very little about bovada hh stuff and the converter, just thought would give some response though as its very possible John could be in vegas grinding thus busy atm

 

[Matt Vaughan]

Actually if you've played 6k hands, it means you've played 6k hands against each position (excluding hands where someone was sitting out or there was an empty seat).

 

[BluffMeAllIn]

Actually if you've played 6k hands, it means you've played 6k hands against each position (excluding hands where someone was sitting out or there was an empty seat).

+1... have no idea why i decided to think it would be different than the # of hands you yourself played and I can't even use the excuse of it being late since it wasn't even midnight :rofl:.

 

[or3o1990]

Because of the anonymous thing pt4 tracks imported bovada hands via positioning, so if you have played 6k hands then there would be roughly 1k hands vs each position (if playing 6max)....pretty much the only thing in can comment on regarding this however.

Thanks for the input.

 

[John A]

It's starting to seem like I am definitely loosing hands when converting them. I've been documenting the table and hand numbers of trouble spots and trying to locate those hands in pt4 and I'm unable to sometimes..

At some point PT changed the way it counted rake, and there was an update to account for this change. But outside of that, we have zero known issues or bugs in the program and it's been that way for a long time. I'd try grabbing the latest, which is .40 and converting with that one.

http://www.acepokersolutions.com/bovada-poker-converter/

 

[or3o1990]

It hasn't been a problem since I've been running the card catcher.

 

[John A]

It hasn't been a problem since I've been running the card catcher.

Ok, coolness. That's good news.

 

[John A]

I have a new beta up of the hand converter. This version is up to address a lot of the corrupted files users are getting from Bovada since their most recent update last week.

v. 1.0.43 B Download:
http://acepokersolutions.com/poker-software/Bovada_Hand_Converter_Setup_v1.0.43

- Fix truncated and partially written files from bovada
- Pot size error in PT4

 

[John A]

Bovada apparently changed their HH format last night. So we're working on a fix, and will have an update soon.

 

[John A]

New Bovada HH change fix. V1.0.0.45

This fixes cash, S&G, and MTT hands from Bovada after their recent HH change.

Download link:
http://acepokersolutions.com/files/Bovada_Hand_Converter_Setup.exe

 

[John A]

Support asked me to put this up because a lot of people are having issues with the new bovada hands. If you're not getting an update message when you load the converter up. Click check for updates in the upper left hand corner.

Bovada changed it's HH format on 12/1/15 so you'll need to update otherwise you will get errors on hands, or hands will just be missing.

 

[Sam Carter]

bovada converter is really useful, thank you! impossible to convert hand histories for pt and hm without it.

 

[John A]

Ty... glad you're enjoying it. We stay on top of any bovada updates or changes.

 

[John A]

Ok, new converter version up: v1.0.0.47

- Update change fix for Bovada Omaha hi/lo rake HH format.


http://acepokersolutions.com/files/Bovada_Hand_Converter_Setup.exe

 

[eGomes2107]

Hi John,

I play on bovada and I am interested in purchasing some of your products. Which combo would be a better benefit for me?

I play Hold em only

I also see this written "For PokerTracker and Holdem Manager. " under the purchase options, Does that mean I need one of those for these to work?

 

[John A]

Hi John,

I play on bovada and I am interested in purchasing some of your products. Which combo would be a better benefit for me?

I play Hold em only

I also see this written "For PokerTracker and Holdem Manager. " under the purchase options, Does that mean I need one of those for these to work?

Correct... you need PT4 or HM2.

Sorry, was out of town at wsop. I'd recommend the Bovada card catcher, unless you're playing a lot of zone. The card catcher plus the converter combo is good if you really want to study the game, since w/ the converter you can see all your opponents hole cards.

http://www.acepokersolutions.com/Bodog-Poker-Catcher/