progressHow to review your hand history
Fifty hands reviewed well beat a thousand played on autopilot.
Studying every hand is not realistic. A better approach: find the pattern of your mistakes first, then fix the pattern.
Step 1: get your hand histories
On GGPoker, open PokerCraft from the client (My Page), go to My Tournaments, set a custom date range (up to two months at a time), select the tournaments and press the red button for hand histories. Save the file to your computer. Our Hand review accepts the .txt file or a .zip archive and reads it in your browser. Your hands do not leave your device, and player names and ids are removed immediately.
Step 2: sort by cost, not by feeling
A hand you lost a big pot in is not necessarily a mistake. A small fold that happens fifty times can cost more. Group decisions by position, stack depth and situation (open, defend, vs 3-bet, vs all-in) and look at the total cost.
Step 3: fix one pattern at a time
- Pick the single most expensive pattern, for example "folding the big blind against the button at 15 to 25 BB".
- Train exactly that spot, hand by hand, until your answers match the chart.
- Return to review after another 200 hands and see whether the pattern disappeared.
What to look for first
- Over-folding the big blind. See big blind defence.
- Open ranges that are too narrow in late position. See opening ranges.
- Calling all-ins too loosely or too tightly at short stacks. See push/fold.
If you want to see how it looks before uploading your own hands, the review page has a demo with sample hands.
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Questions
Does my hand history leave my computer?
No. The file is read and analysed in your browser, and names and ids are removed on loading.
Which sites are supported?
At the moment GGPoker tournament hand histories.
How many hands do I need?
A few hundred hands give a first picture; more hands make the patterns clearer.
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