Free 15/30 PokerTracker Database 300K hands

[krishanleong]

Hi all,

I've been data mining the 15/30 game for a month now. I'm making it available to anyone interested. All you have to do is enter your e-mail address and name in a form at www.pokerhandhistories.com (http://www.pokerhandhistories.com) and you will be redirected to a download page.

There is a poll on the site asking whether you want me to data mine the 30/60 game as well.

I'm not charging anything for this right now. If you want to donate something to help defray the costs of running the website, that would be great.

I'm currently planning on doing this every month. Any words of encouragement would be great. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Please respond in this thread if you have any questions. Or PM me.

Krishan

[kurosh]

Ooh, I'm on there with sexy stats. 24.76BB/100 baby. Thanks a lot. This will be a great tool. Although, for everyone's benefit I'd recommend you take it down.

[TStoneMBD]

wow thank you so much krishan. i have 150k hands in my database and peterrus has another 125k that he will be trading to me. i can send you them sometime next week, as im away from my home right now and dont have access to any of that stuff.

[whitelime]

You used to play mtg right?

[SpaceAce]

163 megs? That'll be good for your bandwidth bill.

SpaceAce

[krishanleong]

I did. I think the hand reading skill transfer over pretty readily. It's funny how words like metagame crop up in poker.

Krishan

[krishanleong]

Yeah, I don't have a good feel for how long it will last. Certainly not all month I don't think. I'm hoping some people will donate a couple bucks to help defray costs. Nothing wrong with optimism. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Krishan

[La Brujita]

Dumb question but how do you open it?

[elmo]

Mise

[nothumb]

Go into PT and select 'maintain database names.' You can add a new one and point it to the file.

The harder thing is merging it with your own. I forget how to do this.

I think this is great. I d/l'ed it even though I am nowhere near playing the 15. I wish people had more small stakes files like this to trade.

TY krishan.

NT

[elmo]

I think I'm trying to integrate this the wrong way. I renamed my orignal database, and renamed the January one to my origninal name. Now I am in the process of adding my January hands... only like 50k total. Is there an easier way?

Thanks Again

[TheMetetron]

There has to be an easy way to integrate this... anyone know?

[Entity]

I grabbed this file, and can offer a mirror for a few people who can PM me. I think I can afford to give away about 10-15gb of bandwidth toward this, so PM me if interested.

Rob

[phifediggy]

thumbs up

[krishanleong]

I hope you guys don't mind the bump. I'd like to bump it again on friday for the weekend crowd, but after that I'll be done. Still have plenty of bandwidth.

Krishan

[stoxtrader]

there is no easy way to integrate it INTO your exist database, but I can't think of why you would want to. IT is very easy to add it as a seperate database. PM me if you are having trouble or spend some time on the pokertracker forum.

[threeonefour]

i got this error when i tried to load the database " File contains no Texas Hold'em hands or unable to determine what poker site this file came from." any ideas as to what i am doing wrong?

[krishanleong]

This isn't a hand history file. It's an actual pokertracker database. Extract it to the pokertracker database and then add it using the maintain poker database names utility in PT. Hope this helps,

Krishan

[threeonefour]

yea i realized that soon after i posted... i guess i am a little slow... thanks for the database though, its going to be really helpful

[superpoe]

Thanks a lot! For someone like myself who is trying to make the step up to the 15/30 game, this will be a huge starting help.

[DcifrThs]

[ QUOTE ]
This isn't a hand history file. It's an actual pokertracker database. Extract it to the pokertracker database and then add it using the maintain poker database names utility in PT. Hope this helps,

Krishan

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when you say "extract it to PT" do you mean unzip it and save it to a file and then what? ... save it to the PT database file and then add it?

-Barron

[DeezNutz3]

Thanks for the hands! You caught me on a good month, lol!

[SpaceAce]

[ QUOTE ]
I grabbed this file, and can offer a mirror for a few people who can PM me. I think I can afford to give away about 10-15gb of bandwidth toward this, so PM me if interested.

Rob

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Actually, I've already got it up on a server which is why I mentioned his bandwidth bill. If he runs out of bandwidth or has to take it down, I can host it for a while. I'm already burning 12,000+ gigs/month so I don't think this would hurt me.

SpaceAce

[krishanleong]

Just wanted to mention the entire database only has hands that are 7-10 people. I filtered out all of the short-handed hands that you get when data mining. I hope you are getting some use out of it.

Krishan

[scrub]

[ QUOTE ]
Hi all,

I've been data mining the 15/30 game for a month now. I'm making it available to anyone interested. All you have to do is enter your e-mail address and name in a form at www.pokerhandhistories.com (http://www.pokerhandhistories.com) and you will be redirected to a download page.

There is a poll on the site asking whether you want me to data mine the 30/60 game as well.

I'm not charging anything for this right now. If you want to donate something to help defray the costs of running the website, that would be great.

I'm currently planning on doing this every month. Any words of encouragement would be great. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Please respond in this thread if you have any questions. Or PM me.

Krishan

[/ QUOTE ]

I took the file, but I think what you're doing is terrible for the long term health of these games.

I know that your heart is in the right place, but I hope you stop.

scrub

[peanutbutter]

Interesting that many of the top winners have VP$IP's over 20%

[elmo]

of course. the leaders of every recent WSOP after day 1 tend to be awful LAGs who take too many risks. there are alot of them, and some will win alot every month. on the other hand, how many tight players are the big losers?

[broken_downstem]

I have the database loaded into poker tracker, but I am wondering how do I get GT+ to display data from multiple databases? I open the table Im sitting at, and it only displays the data I have collected in my own database. Sorry if this is a very basic question, but I couldnt find the answer in any of the poker tracker/GT forums.

[mmanne]

Has anyone figured this out yet? I can't get Gametime+ to show my combined stats between two different pokertracker databases

[krishanleong]

You can't use this with GameTime. Get playerview.

www.playerview.net (http://www.playerview.com)

Krishan

[Lawrence Ng]

http://www.pokertracker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3304

[4thstreetpete]

Can anyone confirm that PV combine stats from multiple databases? Has anyone actually got it to work? No matter how many I add PV only loads info from 1 database for me.

btw, thanks for the great database

[MMMMMM]

This will not be good for the long-term health of the games. There already exist other trends which will seriously hurt them in the long run, too.

I hope you reconsider, Krishan.

This isn't Magic the Gathering where the decks change every few months as new cards come out. In that game it didn't hurt to publish great decks that were on their way out. In online poker however too many good PT'ed-up multitablers with big databases will hurt your online earning power significantly. You are just helping people catch up so you and every other good player will make less. Do you want the camaraderie or do you want the money? If you want camaraderie there are far better places than the internet to get it, such as in live casino play.

Pretend for a moment that M:TG never changed, that new cards NEVER came out and rules remained fixed. Would you publish your best database and analysis then, if you were a player playing to make money?

Maybe you have another reason for doing this. Mind if I ask what it is? All I see are negatives so it might help if you would elaborate a bit.

And to all you greedy guys who said, "Great!" without really thinking about it...this will probably hurt you more than help you in the long run. Something to think about: You don't make most of your money in poker because you are so good or because you have PT with a big database. You make most of your money because certain of your opponents are so bad. Things that will help level the online playing field will take away a lot of your profit and the house rake will eventually get it instead of you. Giving everryone a big PT database will help level the field quite a bit. Well you just gave the house your profit off that "D" player who just became a "B" player. Now you can't beat him for more than the rake which means you can't beat him at all now.

Of course there are other ways people improve. I just think giving them such a large immediate chance at improvement is bad poker. In other words, Krishan, if your goal is solely to make money selling stuff it is one thing. But if your goal is to beat online poker it may be best not to shoot yourself in the foot. This is different than tecaching people to play well a la books or posts. This is just a free boost for everyone. Sorry to say it, but it looks like a bad bad idea in my opinion.

[Catt]

Krishanleong is not doing anything that isn't already being done by others, and available to all, for a fee. I don't see how this is greatly detrimental to the game since the data is already out there.

I appreciate the data (though I'm not a 15/30 player).

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I'm not charging anything for this right now. If you want to donate something to help defray the costs of running the website, that would be great.

[/ QUOTE ]

(emphasis added)

Maybe this doesn't continue; maybe it does continue with fees to cover costs involved; maybe it evolves into a profitable business. In any event, this is not something that no one else is doing and I don't see how some think this impacts the long-term health of these games given the data is already available elsewhere.

[bicyclekick]

I'm sooooooooooo with MMMMMM on this one.

It's greed, sure...but I really don't need 18 milion decent poker players catching up without really even having to do anything.