PokerTracker question.

[BarryDingle]

I have PokerTracker set to do an auto-retrieve of 100 hands every 45 minutes. I am only single tabling now, so it works well for me. You can have it auto-retrieve more often to suit your needs, or force it to auto-retrieve whenever you want.

[cold_cash]

And once I get them all I just have to do the "copy from hotmail inbox to local inbox" operation once?

[easypete]

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1) open your history,
2) highlight all the text (drag or edit\select all),
3) copy text (control-c or right-click\copy),
4) open notepad and paste (control-v or right-click\paste),
5) save as a text file.

[/ QUOTE ]

Man... I don't know how long I did this... was a pain in the keister.

If you are looking at your mail (I use yahoo) in explorer, just click... File... Save As... Change the file type to *.txt, and name it something you remember. I use 1111.txt.

Takes 1/20th the time as cutting and pasting.

Don't worry about the excess garbage in the txt file.... pokertracker ignores it.

I can now load about 1k of hands in about 2-5 mintues.

[BarryDingle]

Yes, I just copy them to the local inbox, then click Check Email from the Import Hand Histories screen in Poker Tracker, and it pulls them in without any problems.

[Peter Harris]

my current email server is a webbased uni one and has this awful trait of adding

=20

at the end of some lines, which of course riles up PT something chronic. so i stick with the 5 step program until my POP3 account is up and running.

But "file\save as" is a kickass way when it works.

PH

[bisonbison]

I've been copying and pasting from hotmail to a local text file, but reading this thread, I've opened up Outlook for the first time.

I've got it to pull my Hotmail into a local Hotmail - Inbox folder. How do I make that my default inbox folder? Or how do I make that the folder that PT checks?

[cold_cash]

I've just been tinkering with it and I'm not sure you can do that. (Which sucks.)

I'm going to keep trying though. Maybe I can figure it out.

[DeathDonkey]

I just did what everyone in this thread is discussing a few days ago. I have Hotmail, tried using Outlook etc etc...

You can't make the Hotmail folder the one PT checks. I haven't found a way to make that the default either, but I think this one may be possible.

Here is a much simpler way to do this that I finally did after messing with Hotmail/Outlook for awhile. Go to www.hotpop.com and open a free Pop3 account. It has a 10 MB storage limit and once you import your hand history (or check your mail using Outlook or equivalent) it won't be stored on the hotpop server anymore. I changed my Party and Empire email addresses to the hotpop account and then PT can import the histories as soon as they are in the inbox.

-DeathDonkey

[btspider]

i just tried hotpop, got eudora and PT both to read from their pop server. Now, party poker refuses to send an email validation code to my new hotpop account, so I can't make the switch. whee..

[btspider]

Not sure about hotpop. It took me 10 requests before I got a validation code sent. Now I've requested my last 100 hand history three times and have not received it. I've switched back to yahoo, validated my yahoo account, and received a hand history all in the last minute.. so i'm not sure how reliable hotpop is.