Hand converter for Live poker
This is a nice tool Debi . Could a live poker player share hands whit this tool?.
Technically... yes. I don't recommend it, because it's not user friendly. The tool must parse hand histories in the appropriate format. This means that you must recreate your live hand into one of those formats... by hand. This is a tedious process, and there could be many guesses and calculations involved.
For example, I took a random live poker video:
Then I took a similar hand from my own data base of
pokerstars hand histories, and I replaced the details manually. I am not 100% sure how accurate the data is (especially the stack sizes of the players folding preflop), because the video doesn't show everything like an
online poker client would. I had to do some math after watching the
recorded live stream for extra clues. If you took notes while playing live, you probably missed a lot of stuff too. Of course, if you don't care about 100% accuracy, you can simply guess the insignificant details.
Here is my interpretation of that live hand in the PokerStars HH format:
PokerStars Hand #12: Tournament #1, €4850+€450 EUR Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (30000/60000) - 2015/12/15 19:30:00 EET [2015/12/15 12:30:00 ET]
Table 'Feature' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: TREMZIN (6075000 in chips)
Seat 2: GOMEZ (2590000 in chips)
Seat 3: WALKER (995000 in chips)
Seat 4: MACDONNELL (175000 in chips)
Seat 7: BANICEVIC (2970000 in chips)
Seat 8: AMIROV (6045000 in chips)
Seat 9: BUTZHAMMER (1295000 in chips)
TREMZIN: posts the ante 10000
GOMEZ: posts the ante 10000
WALKER: posts the ante 10000
MACDONNELL: posts the ante 10000
BANICEVIC: posts the ante 10000
AMIROV: posts the ante 10000
BUTZHAMMER: posts the ante 10000
TREMZIN: posts small blind 30000
GOMEZ: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AMIROV [Kh Kd]
WALKER: raises 925000 to 985000 and is all-in
MACDONNELL: calls 165000 and is all-in
BANICEVIC: folds
AMIROV: calls 985000
BUTZHAMMER: folds
TREMZIN: folds
GOMEZ: raises 1595000 to 2580000 and is all-in
AMIROV: calls 1595000
*** FLOP *** [6s As 9s]
*** TURN *** [6s As 9s] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [6s As 9s 2d] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GOMEZ: shows [Qs Qc] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
AMIROV: shows [Kh Kd] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
AMIROV collected 3190000 from side pot-2
WALKER: shows [Jd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
AMIROV collected 2460000 from side pot-1
MACDONNELL: shows [9d 8d] (two pair, Nines and Sixes)
AMIROV collected 760000 from main pot
GOMEZ finished the tournament in 11th place and received €56,950.
WALKER finished the tournament in 12th place and received €50,990.
MACDONNELL finished the tournament in 13th place and received €50,990.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6410000 Main pot 760000. Side pot-1 2460000. Side pot-2 3190000. | Rake 0
Board [6s As 9s 2d 6d]
Seat 1: TREMZIN (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: GOMEZ (big blind) showed [Qs Qc] and lost with two pair, Queens and Sixes
Seat 3: WALKER showed [Jd Jc] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 4: MACDONNELL showed [9d 8d] and lost with two pair, Nines and Sixes
Seat 7: BANICEVIC folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: AMIROV showed [Kh Kd] and won (6410000) with two pair, Kings and Sixes
Seat 9: BUTZHAMMER (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Pasted in the converter, I get this result:
PokerStars, €4,850 + €450 -
Hold'em No Limit - 30,000/60,000 (10,000 ante) - 7 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat
WALKER (UTG): 995,000 (17 bb)
MACDONNELL (MP): 175,000 (3 bb)
BANICEVIC (MP+1): 2,970,000 (50 bb)
AMIROV (CO): 6,045,000 (101 bb)
BUTZHAMMER (BU): 1,295,000 (22 bb)
TREMZIN (SB): 6,075,000 (101 bb)
GOMEZ (BB): 2,590,000 (43 bb)
Pre-Flop: (160,000) Hero (AMIROV) is CO with K
♥ K
♦
WALKER (UTG) raises to 985,000 (all-in), MACDONNELL (MP) calls 165,000 (all-in),
1 fold,
AMIROV (CO) calls 985,000,
2 players fold,
GOMEZ (BB) 3-bets to 2,580,000 (all-in),
AMIROV (CO) calls 1,595,000
Flop: (6,410,000) 6
♠ A
♠ 9
♠ (4 players, 3 all-in)
Turn: (6,410,000) 2
♦ (4 players, 3 all-in)
River: (6,410,000) 6
♦ (4 players, 3 all-in)
Total pot: 6,410,000
Showdown:
GOMEZ (BB) shows Q
♠ Q
♣ (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 18%, Flop: 44%, Turn: 28%, River: 0%)
WALKER (UTG) shows J
♦ J
♣ (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 13%, Flop: 5%, Turn: 3%, River: 0%)
MACDONNELL (MP) shows 9
♦ 8
♦ (two pair, Nines and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 17%, Flop: 14%, Turn: 10%, River: 0%)
AMIROV (CO) shows K
♥ K
♦ (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 52%, Flop: 38%, Turn: 60%, River: 100%)
AMIROV (CO) wins 6,410,000
When you try to create hand logs manually, you may encounter another problem—it's hard to update the hand log after it's "published". If you notice some error in the replay, it's hard to fix it, because the re-paste is probably going to give you the same link/data back without the fix. If you noticed in the log above, I used arbitrary hand and tournament numbers, because the live hand doesn't have such things. The unique link generated for the replay seems to be strongly correlated to these things (a hash function?). If you get the same link (hash) on re-submission, your changes might (will?) be ignored. This could be a security measure. So, you have to pick a different hand number in order to avoid the hash collision.
All of the above is very inconvenient. The hand converter isn't a hand generator, after all. Well, the hand converter "supports hand histories from 20 different sites and networks". I don't know how the different formats compare to the PokerStars format, but I doubt they'll be a lot easier for manual generation. Perhaps Pokeit can make a special simplified format for easier manual input, which also generates virtually collision-free links?