importing hands, when I use the hand history file in the ignition card catcher folder I only get hands from the most recent table opened, anybody give me the quick fix please and thanks?

Question of why is pokersnowie is telling me to 2 pot bet?

My Hand Kh Kc

Board Kd Qs 3c

I check on the flop.

Pokersnowie recommendations 2 pot bet.

Error 2.45

Well that's because in 3 bet pots the early-in-position caller is going to have a lot of QQ, KQ, AQ, and JT with backdoor flush combos in his range and this flop is clearly good for the OOP 3 bettor as well having those same combos plus KK and AA, so naturally a larger size to put pressure and extract value from our opponents top end of their range is optimal with the top end of our range balanced out with a speckling of bluffs. Having a slight equity advantage is key here. Of course this is mostly made up because how could anyone begin to speculate with you providing almost no information on the hand and what previous actions were? They are important you know.

Seriously though, Snowie's overbet is likely an anomaly there. I wouldn't start over-betting the flop very often if at all if you don't know how to balance it out properly. Without context, typically on flop where you have a clear equity advantage, you want to bet more often and be betting larger especially with the very top of your range. It does make sense to check back to slow play the very top of your range sometimes on some board textures but not usually on a board where letting off potentially free cards can drastically change the strength of your hand.

Compare the EV difference between betting pot and 2xp and see how big the difference is there. If it's not significant, then you can "ignore" Snowie's advice and just know that you should be betting.

What was the actual situation? Was it something like a single-raised pot and you were on the BTN vs BB?
Snowie likes overbetting some "two broadways and a brick" boards with a decent chunk of its range, due to a huge range advantage (villain never has KK or QQ, and almost never KQ in that spot). It makes it almost impossible for villain to float his gutshots when you bomb it, and that means you can "get away with" some big bluffs. Naturally, if you're bluffing at a high frequency for a large size, you also have to bomb it with the nuts, in order to be balanced. Betting KK (specifically) for a smaller size might be more profitable than 2x pot, but Snowie thinks 2x pot is best for its range as a whole. Checking back top set misses a ton of value.

So I'm assuming this is a single raised pot BTN vs BB using BTN's 1/2 Pot raising range. I ran this through a solver using those ranges and gave the solver the option to bet 25, 50, 100 and 200% Pot. Interestingly enough, given these betting choices, the solver will choose to bet 25% Pot 100% of the time with all three combos of KK on this board. Maybe because the BB only has about 13 combos of two pair plus with no overpairs, and you double block his top pair and some of his two pair combos with KK.

Now, the BB will have almost 60 combos of top pair overall, and so the solver will utilize a 2x Pot bet (with about 20% of its range) for value with its AA, KQ, QQ, and 33 holdings. Since the BB will have KQ less often than his other KX holdings, and the only set he can realistically have here is 33, I suppose when we hold KQ+, it can become advantageous to bet quite large. But I think I agree with the solver on using a smaller bet sizing with KK since we are double blocking the BB's KX holdings. When we choose the bet 200% Pot, the solver suggest the BB fold 352 combos in his range and call with 96. When facing a 25% Pot bet, the solver will suggest the BB to only fold 176 combos and call with 237, and ontop of that the solver is rasing much more often facing a smaller bet size.

I wouldn't get too caught up in bet sizings though because it can be quite hard for humans to really balance our ranges into sub ranges for different bet sizings. It would instead be of better value to know if you should be betting and instead choose bet sizings based on situations, board textures, assumed ranges, desired outcomes, expected outcomes and opponent reads and apply it to your whole range for those scenarios, in my opinion.

bump! I've searched the thread and cannot figure this out. I know I'm not the only one importing from bonition to snowie, please fellas?

got it!

It looks like there's a no-rake checkbox now for scnearios... This is huge for MTT players!

It was not far from the real situation spots in mtts if u trained in highest stake ante games were rake is not of a big deal.

I dont know why pokersnowie sometimes says my line is not optimal but the EV is highest. Is this a glitch?

I bet 0.25 pot on the flop and there's an error saying I should have checked or bet full pot, but the betting 0.25 pot is clearly the highest. Is there something I am misinterpreting here?

Betting large usually is done with more polarized range(nuts or air) that is split into 2 ranges in your example (checking and betting range) that will produce the same EV if u r sticking to those frequencies. U can't bet 0.25(small) on a wet board because u r putting your opponent on a easy decision with his continuation range. That combo will realise over 100% of equity but on that board your range is not having good and middling hands enough to justify 0.25 bet.It is SB vs. BB single raised or limiped pre flop?

SB raised pre-flop and BB called.

Why does it show that 0.25b size (3.53) has a higher EV than 1.0bet size (3.26) ?

Well probably it is balancing ranges thing. Betting 100% of his range at that size will produce higher EV but it prefers more balanced range split in checking and betting pot size bet .Villain will find it though to make a decision.It is board texture ,spr and position that drives the action primarily.

This is because Snowie only uses one size for its range, whereas solvers do "range-splitting" with multiple sizes.
Basically, Snowie tested all bet-sizes and found that although one particular combo might maximize EV by betting small, the range as a whole - when the bot is forced to use the same size for every combo - does better betting big.

It's like something mentioned a few posts ago. On Kxx, the max EV line with top set specifically would be to bet small and get called by loads of hands that are basically drawing dead, but Snowie is "forced" to use one size for every hand, and it decided that overbetting was the correct size to maximize EV of the entire range.

Since Snowie has this "flaw" of being restricted to one size for its range, it's effectively exploitable, as you can beat it by betting different combos with sizes that eke out more EV than the strategy Snowie itself would employ. e.g. You can bet small with top set, and get called, but overbet with 9-high and get the fold, whereas Snowie would overbet the nuts and get no value most of the time.

I tried exporting Ignition hands from DriveHud and importing those hands to poker snowie but it says unsupported.

The same report imports to Hand2Note without any issues.

not sure if this helps you at all because its drivehud and not hm2 but I was trying to import from the hand history file that's in my database settings and it wouldn't work properly. what worked for me was local disk > hm2 archive > ipoker > 2019 > month > day and then importing that file. while yours won't be the same, and I'm not sure how drivehud classifies ignition hands (hm2 classifies them as ipoker), you can probably toy around with it and get there. gl

Are they planning any major updates?
It would be nice to get better hand review tools. It appears that the program have not changed that much since the original launch.

If you play on mobile snowie how can you review hands?

Do not waste money on this outdated software it hasnt been updated since 5 years they do not care about the software at all its old af still trying to milk money for useless soft.

Snowie team also refuse to refund money for their product to unhappy customers!

Save your money spend it elsewhere

What would you recommend with the same options:
importing and analyzing hands
playing against bot with advise ( from heads up to full ring)

for half a price you can get lifetime software like GTOplus and Flopzilla - much more in depth analysing tools

I do have it but the ability to upload tousands of hands and reviewing errors and blunders in poker session makes allows to review your own game faster in PokerSnowie.

Hello, everyone.

To my friends who like to talk to me: I'm missing because I'm messing with some personal projects and because I'm going to do a big travel next week, but everything is fine in poker (I just did one more move up, btw) and I will create a thread in the coming months.

However, I joined here just to ask a question about snowie:

My program has not updated as yours did. It continues with the old look, nothing has changed. I already uninstalled and installed again, but nothing happened.

Does anyone else's snowie is still the same old layout? Does anyone know what to do? Is there any advantage in updating it?

Thanks!

Training...to Freezeout
No matter how many players I plug in, I get seven every time
I want 9 players, I get 7
I want to play heads up, I get 7
is this my personal glitch or is someone else having this problem
more importantly does anyone know how to fix this problem
thanks