screwing around with the PT database/hand histories

[MagicFlea]

I'm interested in aspects of my play that the pokertracker filters don't account for (specifically EV for certain plays in certain scenarios)... I've got a good head for writing code in general but no experience with this sort of thing. Has anyone messed around with stuff like this? What would I need to do?

[illunious]

If the data you need is in the PT database, the PT Forums has a SQL Forum that will probably be helpful to you. Also, you can get queries to modify for your own needs by clicking header rows in PT.

If you're familiar with the MS Access "visual (?)" SQL builder, building custom PT queries is pretty intuitive.

If PT doesn't have the data you need, you'd need to write your own HH parser, which can be a lot of work (especially to get it bug-free, working on multiple sites, and then maintaining the code). The only data I can think of that would require this is each individual bet size in a NL hand.