Absolute Hand Histories Suck

[buffett]

Let me count the ways.....

1. You have to remember to request them after every 200 hands.

2. When the email is received, Absolute and Poker Tracker sometimes have annoying communication issues.
(example: I won a hand last week holding AKo. Poker Tracker had trouble reading the hand history email, though, and effectively cut off the hand history just before the winner of the hand was announced. I know for a fact that I won the pot with aces up, but Poker Tracker credits the pot to another person at the table who showed down one pair.)

3. The hand history request function isn't even working right now. Yesterday I attempted to request a batch history (sometimes 100 hands, sometimes 200 or 150) at least 10 times, and I got an error message each time. When I requested the hand history for one specific hand, that came through just fine. So I emailed Abso support and said "Will you please email the hand histories for my last 1,000 hands?" And I got this reply: "I'm sorry but I won't be able to do this, I recommend to give it some time and try again, you should be receiving the 200 raked hands as they are working fine." Apparently I have a different concept than Abso support of the phrase "working fine."

CONCLUSION: Do not play on Absolute, unless you are such a bonus whore that you are able to endure such crap.
(By the way, I am, and I do. But that won't stop me from whining! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img])
-web

[Steve565]

The history is a real sore point for me also. Just the fact that you don't have an active history like UB, Party, etc, is a big disadvantage for some of these sites.

There are other things I dislike about Absolute. I can't believe they do such a good job offering all these bonuses, but can't fix up the software and make the site more playable.

[beernutz]

I'll just add to your list rather than start a new thread.

4. Opponents mucked cards at showdown are not shown in the hand history.

Last night I got a free $10 from Absolute so I was fooling around in the $.5/1 game deciding if I want to take advantage of their 20% reload. This hand came up and I was curious what my opponents had on the river to call me, but it looks like I'll never know. I have left the hand history as is except for anonymizing the two players who saw the river with me.

Stage #xxxxxxxx: Holdem Normal $0.50/$1 [2005-03-16 03:07:29]
Seat 1 - CAPTINKEEF $19.75 in chips
Seat 2 - 2PUMP $10.15 in chips
Seat 3 - TVC15 $10 in chips
Seat 4 - PLAYERY $8.25 in chips
Seat 5 - PHOENIX $10.38 in chips
Seat 6 - PROXYBOT $21.25 in chips
Seat 7 - PLAYERX $54.22 in chips
Seat 8 - SHIROMAGIUS $15.38 in chips
Seat 9 - LOWOCTANE $50 in chips
*** BLIND [dealer 5] ***
PROXYBOT - Post small blind $0.25
PLAYERX - Post big blind $0.50
LOWOCTANE - sitout (wait for BB)
TVC15 - Pocket [Qc,Kc]
SHIROMAGIUS - Calls $0.50
CAPTINKEEF - Folds
2PUMP - Folds
TVC15 - Raises $0.50 to $1
PLAYERY - Calls $1
PHOENIX - Calls $1
PROXYBOT - Folds
PLAYERX - Calls $0.50
SHIROMAGIUS - Calls $0.50
*** FLOP [4h,Ks,8c] ***
PLAYERX - Bets $0.50
SHIROMAGIUS - Folds
TVC15 - Raises $0.50 to $1
PLAYERY - Calls $1
PHOENIX - Folds
PLAYERX - Calls $0.50
*** TURN [4h,Ks,8c,Kh] ***
PLAYERX - Checks
TVC15 - Bets $1
PLAYERY - Calls $1
PLAYERX - Calls $1
*** RIVER [4h,Ks,8c,Kh,4d] ***
PLAYERX - Bets $1
TVC15 - Raises $1 to $2
PLAYERY - Calls $2
PLAYERX - Calls $1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TVC15 - Show cards [Qc,Kc]
PLAYERY - Lost mucks
PLAYERX - Lost mucks
*** RESULT ***
Total Pot($17.25) Rake ($0.75)
Board [4h,Ks,8c,Kh,4d]
CAPTINKEEF - Folded on the POCKET CARDS
2PUMP - Folded on the POCKET CARDS
TVC15 - Total ($16.50) HI$16.50)Full house, kings full of fours [Qc,Kc - B:Ks,B:Kh,P:Kc,B:4h,B:4d]
PLAYERY - HI: [Lost mucks]
PHOENIX - Folded on the FLOP
PROXYBOT - Folded on the POCKET CARDS
PLAYERX - HI: [Lost mucks]
SHIROMAGIUS - Folded on the FLOP