HandHQ

Hand history exchange has been going on incognito ever since poker software could actually exchange it. Although specifically a black-hat tactic and against the policies of Poker Stars and Party Poker, making connections in forums and user groups is entirely out of the realm of policing by any poker site.

Such is the demand for hand history database information, in particular for cash games, that it has spawned a service whereby you can pay outright for immediate download of actual hand histories the service collects from players and their own software. free trial poker calculator

Introducing HandHQ

Data-mined poker hand histories.

Almost all serious online poker players take advantage of some tracking software such as Poker Tracker, Holdem Manager or Poker Office to record their play. Among other things, the poker tracking software will overlay on the table beside each player a summary of how that player has played in the previous hands.

Common useful statistics shown are how many hands that player has played, how many times they have seen a flop, how often they raise pre-flop.This software also gives you detailed information on how much every player you played has won or lost.

This is very useful information but it really only is an aid to one's memory. The real benefit of this software comes when you have access to your opponents before having played them. One way to get datamined hands is to use a datamining tool which will watch the tables and record the hand histories to your hard dirve.

These datamining tools can only watch a limited number of tables and require maintenance by the user to keep them mining the hands. HandHQ.com takes away the need for users to datamine themselves by offering huge amounts of datamined hands for sale. And when I say huge, I mean huge. You can get three million hands instantly on their site - nearly all the hands played at a single level over the last few weeks.

So instead of sitting down at a table with a group of unknown players you will know everything possible about how they have played over their last few thousand hands. You will know if they are big winners or losers and if you want to be sitting with them. You can even use your tracking software to sort players by money lost and hunt out the fish. This by itself will recoup the price of the hands many times over but when coupled with detailed stats on every player the advantage can be significant.

HandHQ.com currently covers No-Limit and Limit Holdem on iPoker, Poker Stars, Party Poker, OnGame, FullTilt & Absolute and Pot-Limit Omaha on iPoker.