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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
OP, do you have a genuine interest in datamined hands, or are you just clutching your pearls because "CH34T1NG!!!1!"?
Multiple HH data mining sites seem to have good coverage (based on # of hands available per month/year) for most sites.
In WPNs case, a spectator account has 3 tickets which last for 5 hours. Every 24 hours you get 3 more tickets. That means just to cover 3 tables around the clock, you'd need 5 accounts. All stakes on WPN are covered, plus they're covering MTTs too. Not to mention the 200z coverage - which doesn't allow spectators.
Covering WPN would require a lot of computing resources. Other sites would require less resources, but it would still be substantial on sites with higher volume.
The question I have is who is buying enough hand histories to make expending such a large amount of resources worth it? The answer to that question could be interesting ... I'm guessing it's mostly bot operators who would buy the histories, maybe a few human players or stables.
Of course this is assuming the companies aren't getting the hand histories without scraping.