Poker Software and Analysis

Recently, I have been doing a fair bit of statistical analysis of hand histories using Poker Office 5. However, my results are often hindered by a lack of sample data.

For example, in Analysing Blind Stealing Statistics with Poker Office 5, I found that the number of blind steal attempts on virtually all players was pitifully small.

There were a few obvious ways to solve this problem:

• Continue playing, and allow Poker Office 5 to gather more data.
• Purchase Hand Histories.
• Use a shared database application, such as Poker Crusher.
• Use a datamining tool to gather more data.

This article shall focus on the last option - datamining. The majority of my analysis has been conducted at Full Tilt. But Full Tilt does not save hand histories if the user is not sat down at t table. That prevents programs such as Poker Office from tracking the data.

Idleminer's Full Tilt Hand Grabber solves this problem. When running, it will force Full Tilt to save hand histories to a specified folder (please note that Full Tilt must also be configured to save hand histories first).

Running a test on Full Tilt, with 7 open $3/$6 limit tables, it took just under two hours to gather 1,000 hands.

The adjacent screenshot shows a Poker Office player search using my 1,000 gathered hands. It's not quite enough for a full analysis, but shows that a good start has been made.

To conclude, Idleminer's Full Tilt Hand Grabber can help players gather Full Tilt hand histories in a more time effective manner.

Idleminer also offers a range of Hand Grabbers for other Poker Rooms, and some of these will even open and close tables based on pre-set filtering criteria.