This will be the support thread for the Bovada Hand History Converter. Software that converts Bovada hand histories into an easily importable format to your favorite poker database.

Hi, i just picked this up yesterday. Is nice to be able to see some stats, and my graph for Bovada.

i have had an account over there for a while, but didn't really start playing there until November. I was able to download my HH's for the past 31 days, and was just curious if you knew if it is possible to request your playing history from the site past the 31 days?

While you still have to deal with the anonymous tables, at least it is possible to track yourself, and do some review.

Bovada only allows for hand histories for the past 31 days. You may be able to contact them and get beyond that, but I honestly don't know. Once you do the first import though, you'll be able to grab the rest pretty easy.

Glad you like it. Ya, I first put it together because I started playing on Bovada 5-6 months ago and was tired of not being able to review my play, run filters, and see my stats/sessions. I was using a spreadsheet which was a pain to update and I eventually stopped doing it because I'm a lazy poker player. So it's awesome to view and be able to post hands easily now. I'm always reviewing my play so if nothing else I'm happy to be using it. I understand now why HM and PT decided not to support it because it's beyond a pain to get the anonymous tables functioning in a good format that is easy to read into the DB.

Cool new update. Now you can view all of your opponents cards whether they went to showdown or not. Kind of neat to see how different players are playing each situation when you review the hands. Update is .04.

Is this free software or do u have to pay for it?

Excellent software works like a charm!

I emailed Bovada and once the download period expires you will no longer be able to get the hand histories.

Okay, I'm a recreational player playing micro limit holdem on Bovada, mainly .25/.50 limit 6max. Whenever PT4 imports the converted hands, it is changing the stakes to .10/.25. And looking further, whatever stakes I play is changed to one stake smaller than what was played.

Do you know what is going on with that and what the solution would be?

Doc

Ok, cool. Thanks for letting us know. I kind of suspected, but you never know.

Yes I do know... I think on some limit hands under $1 it was causing issues. We didn't do a ton of limit testing. Put a new version up today though - .05 and this should fix the issue. Just re-download and install if it doesn't prompt you to update automatically.

Downloaded the update and it appears to be working great now.

Thank you, sir!!


Doc

Yw, cool.

Yeah the latest update fixed this and another issue with some multi-way all-ins. Personally really loving being able to see when I was bluffed or not.

New update out to fix some minor issues with players sitting out. .06 update.

is this software free? where can you download it?

You can download it here:
http://acepokersolutions.com/Bovadahandconverter.html

Since the latest PT4 update, I get the following error messages when importing hands. One error message (1 hand??) for each table session.

08:30:37 pm: Error: PokerStars: Unable to import hand. Reason: Unable to execute query: EXECUTE cash_cache_insert(9324,1,3,5,4,false,false,false,2 01305,-0.50000000000000000000,0.00,0.0000000000,-0.50000000000000000000,-0.10,-0.1000000000,0,0,0.000000000000000000,0,0.02,0.020 0000000,0.09,0.0900000000,0.0050000000000000000000 ,0.005000000000000000000000000000,-0.10,-0.1000000000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,5,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,2,5,1,0 ,1,1,4,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,'USD',0,0,0);; Reason: Fatal Error (ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "USD" LINE 1: ...0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ,0,'USD',0,0,... ^ )


Doc

Any clue how long it will take to support MTTs?

I'm having the developer update to the latest and check. Just to verify we're on the same version, if you can post the PT4 version it would help.

I have a feeling PT is going to be a little bit more of a pain simply because any little change to the HH format, even spacing, and it errors out. HM is much more forgiving, and doesn't require every single character to be exact.

It was this week's update. PT4 version 4.06.

Doc

Ok, cool thanks. He's looking at it. Will have a release up by tomorrow.

So the developer looked at 4.06 the latest update. We imported a few thousand hand with it, even newer bovada files with no issues. Are you sure you converted the files first?

If so, maybe you can PM and send me the files and we can look at them. But from all accounts it seems to be working fine.

Okay. May take a few days to get back to you. My first grandson is supposed to make his grand entrance into the world today.


Doc

just DL'ed the trial. Seems pretty solid except some hands always seem to go missing by the time I get them into HEM1.

the converter found 1367 hands, converted all but 6.

out of those 1361 hands 1358 showed up in my HEM1. I can live with it I suppose to just get a general idea of my personal stats and such. It would be nice to eventually have it be on the dot accurate so I could track my BR but this is waaaay better than nothing.

Thanks for writing this software.

Also when I'm looking in the game transactions window on bov it says download period finished next to any session older than 7 days. I was hoping to be able to grab all my hands from the past 31 at least.

Congrats!

Ya, no worries. If it's one hand out of that group, it's likely something with players sitting out. But we can take a look when you're ready.

A lot of times when you are first sitting it out it's grabbing those hands, but it won't import them. So occasionally you'll see that. If you think it's something else though (anything is possible), PM me your e-mail and if you send the hands I can have the developer look at them.

As far as your hands, yes, you should be able to grab your last 31 days. If it won't let you, e-mail their support. But up to 31 days is the max.

Just to clarify it in this thread, I will need HM or PT, right?