Awesome. I just gave this a try and found a different folder on my C-Drive. There they all are. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

Cool. I didn't know you could save them off the site directly, so that's good to know. So they may just change the user account number at some point? I haven't heard of that happening before.

I've been having import problems to HEM2 for about a week. I try to import and it says theyre all errors. Any idea how to fix this? I have the latest versions of both HEM2 and the converter. I searched around but couldnt find a solution.

So I have the issue that was posted, but didn't get the response that resolved the issue... So on hand history I can view individual sessions but I can't download all and Don't know how to continue on to get them to pt4... I keep watching the tutorial but can't seem to get beyond this issue

When you updated HM2, you have a version now that does no support known hole cards. You need to click on settings in the converter and uncheck known hole cards. To run HM2 with known hole cards you need version 8079 or earlier.

I'm not sure what you mean by issue posted. So you can't download them from bovada is what you're saying? Maybe try downloading them individually for now. You can try contacting bovada support to see why it won't download all. I couldn't tell you why that wouldn't work for you though. You should be able to if the hands have been played within an 8 day window. Anything beyond that cannot be downloaded.

Awesome! Went back to the 8079 version and its working flawless again. Thanks alot!

Is it free forever or just a trial ? how much if it is a trial and the free period is over ? did it ever work for MTTs / SNGs?

I'll admit I have not read this entire thread. I play Bovada on a mac -- it looks like this software is PC only? Am I screwed in terms of trying to grab and import my bovada hands if I continue to use a mac computer?

You're welcome. Just keep in mind that if you update past the .8079 version, that HM has blocked known hole cards. So if you need to update for any reason, you'll have to turn this setting off in the converter unfortunately. I wish this wasn't so, but nothing we can do about it.

There's a free 24 hour trial just so you can see it work. It works as advertised though. I'm thinking of expanding it to 3 days just because that sounds fun. But other than that you get you what see. It works great for MTT's and S&G's as well as cash games. No errors or hassle.

On a critical side note, what did you think about the Wiggins trade?

Yes, it's for PC only. You can run it through parallels or a similar windows emulator like other have on here. You're not screwed, but some things are a little more difficult.

What's the best software to help me play on Bovada?

I purchased Bovada Hand Converter, but never used it.


What are the best options? Thanks.

I can PM you some answers, and I'd love to assist. That's not the point of this thread though. This is a support thread for the converter only. So only questions regarding that are to be asked in here. Otherwise threads like this can derail, as I'm sure you can understand.

Ok ty, how much is it to buy, and it should be interesting, if his handles/shooting turn out to be legit it will be a steal, esp. if love somehow doesnt resign

All info is on the site, but it's $16. Yeah, it will be an interesting year in b-ball, that's for sure.

Not sure if this has been requested before when we were talking about it, but would it be possible to include a preference to not make HU hands a separate "2 max" stake? Since my personal preference is to keep them as 6 max hands, I am getting a little tired of visiting my Adjust Stakes window to manually change them.

I can put the request in, but not sure it's something they would do right now honestly. Just out of curiosity though, why would you want to do this?

Had an issue, but realized I was using a HEM version from like 2009 before Zoom was a thing. All working great now. Thanks!

A few reasons:

1. I prefer to see how I'm doing in each overall stake at a glance. I play way fewer HU hands than 3-6 handed hands, and they're all the same "offering" anyway (i.e. there are no HU tables of my stakes) - there are also far fewer full ring games going than their 6max counterparts. Why clutter my results data with 3 stakes when it's mostly one (6max) and rarely the other (full ring)? HU hands in my games are usually when I'm game starting or when a full game has devolved into a HU situation.

2. Keeping the 6max and HU hands the same game will probably make managing session results easier, as they won't show up as separate sessions in my database when they never were to begin with. This is useful for session flow review at a later time.

3. If I really want to see how I'm doing in only HU situations, I can (and do) easily make a filter for HU hands. If it's so easy to see how I'm doing in HU games via a simple filter, I don't see why it should be so difficult to forcefully un-force the HU hands to be 6max hands.

I'm not knocking those who enjoy this feature, but a preference to let the user decide for himself would be great. And to give a little more insight into how I see this, if I were playing at an actual HU table offered by the site, I would absolutely keep the hands as HU sessions in my database.

Whoa... yeah, welcome to the 21st century. Glad it's working for you now.

Yeah, I hear you. Thanks for your explanation. I think most people like to look at their stats though too, and make sure that they are within ranges that make sense, or there's something that looks way off. And of course that will begin to happen when you lump HU's hands with 6-max. You start playing 1/2 your hands, and it's going to really skew all you data. I think probably 98% of people are in this boat, and don't want this data contaminated.

I mean there are overall reports you can just add so you just have to look at the bottom line. It doesn't even look at the stakes you play, it just puts everything together. Why don't you just load or run those instead?

If you actually sat down at a PokerStars 6-max table, would the HU hands import into your database as HU games? I guess that's my bottom line point. The converter is taking liberties that even sites or PT/HEM don't take. As far as the stats argument goes, I don't want my stats data contaminated either. I can (and again do) make filters for that. Your stats will be different for when it's 3-4 handed, when it's 5-6 handed, etc. The best HUDs automatically filter this for you in-game as well. Databases are awesome at filtering and getting to the bottom of whatever form of data you desire. Why complicate things?

It shows the bottom line row at the bottom of the default results page regardless of how many stakes are being displayed. I could run a separate report, but again why complicate things further. I consider the HU hands part of my 6-max experience and thus contributing to my 6-max winrate, and want it documented as such.

Thanks again for your explanation. I understand you want your HU's games marked as 6-max because the table title says 6-max, even though you're playing HU's. We changed this per request of a lot of users, so someone will apparently always be unhappy. At some point we could add a setting option. There are just a lot of other issues the developers are tackling at the moment. But like I said, I do hear you and appreciate your feedback about it.

My initial import was fine, but now it's skipping hands or complete days. Troubleshooting tips?