HH converters

[Talking Poker]

I agree that Reason #2 is ridiculous.

That said, I'd be interested in adding a custom HH converter to this site - something that we could all agree on, so all hands posted follow a standard format. I don't usually love converted hands myself, but the addition of the pot size calculation is very nice.

Would love to see what you can come up with decoder. For now, I'd say to try to get the output to be close to (but I'd DEFINITELY like to see the stack sizes listed at the top, as well), and then we can tweak it from there.

[melioris]

Just some ideas for the converter. I don’t know if these are even good ideas, but whatever.

Under the Bold Street heading (FLOP), each action has own line

Currently stack size listed in () after each player’s name on each street?

An example is below.


Turn: 6 ($82, 2 players)
Hero checks,
CO (stack at this time) bets $50,
Hero (stack at this time)calls.

[ChipFish]

Isn't it a good thing to have to figure out the pot for yourself?

Let's see.
Guy opened for 10 in a 1/2 NLgame
2 callers
SB folds
BB calls

Flop
guy bets 30
1 caller

How much is in the pot?
Geeze it's not rocket science.
Here's a tip, you don't have to be correct to the penny. rounding is ok too.


I'd like to see some of you guys playing live.... Ummmmm, ahhh, Crap. Forget it I fold.

[Talking Poker]

You're talking about simple addition. I'm pretty sure we are all capable of it without further "practice." Why not just list the pot size so people don't have to waste time adding and can focus on the hand analysis instead?

[de-coder]

People at work call me the security wing-nut, but hey, it's my job... I still think it's not a bad source for free datamining, but whatever...

If we can agree on a nice output format I'll see what I can do. It'll take a while cause my regular gig is kindof crazy right now, but I'll work on it.

TP - Would you like this as a plugin for vBulletin or a stand alone script?

[Talking Poker]

I think a stand alone script would be the way to go.

As for this being a good tool for datamining, do you really think the couple dozen hands or so per day that people enter into it would be more worthwhile than opening up 16 tables at once (per computer) and datamining 1600 hands PER HOUR??? Come on.

Regardless, I'd love to see what you can come up with... If you want to see the format I'd like to see, I can grab a full HH and reformat it how I think would be best.

[de-coder]

If you can get me HH files from the various sites you want to support (I think some sites use different formats and I only play at a couple of places...) and an output format that will get me started.

What would you like to call each position? I see things like MP21 and stuff for full ring games - there must be a better way.

[Talking Poker]

I'll draw up some basic "specs" for you later tonight (and hopefully people will give a lot more inpot into this thread about EXACTLY what they would like to see), but for the positions, I'm thinking:

6 max:
SB
BB
UTG
MP
CO
Button

For full games, we would add:
UTG+1 (between UTG and MP)

and then either convert MP to:
MP1
MP2
MP3

or even add in:
CO-1 instead of MP3. Something like that.

Thoughts? Anyone? Anyone?

[Talking Poker]

Also, I'd be perfectly happy is this started off simple and we expand on it with future revisions (I'm a fairly smart guy and might even be able to do a lot of that myself). But to start, I'd like to see support for:
1. Full Tilt
2. Poker Stars

-Both cash games and tourneys.

That's probably 90% of the hands people post here anyway, these days, but we could add in other sites down the road...

[Nikita]

Ultimate Bet would probably be a good idea. I've seen a few hands posted from there recently, and I play there a bit.