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I. Overview
The hands filter is a very powerful part of the PokerStat program. The filter
lets you specify what hands to use in the processing when you click "Get Data" for a query.
For example, to see how well you do in late position at a full table,
you can set the filter to only view hands where you are in late position
in a table with 8-10 players, and where not in the blinds.
The hands filter is one of the most complex parts of PokerStat. It's usage may
not be apparent at first, but efforts spent learning how to use the hands filter
properly will allow you to find things you couldn't find out in any other way!
II. Buttons on bottom
The buttons on the bottom of the "Hands Filter" window are:
III. Usage-Game
These hands filter settings generally apply to all games, and let you
choose the types of games you want to view:
Game Type:
Bet Type:
Big blinds from X to X, inclusive:
Number Of Players from X to X:
Date/Time filter:
IV. Usage-Position
This hands filter setting lets you choose hands where a certain player
is in any position you choose (usually early, middle, or late):
For the purposes of this filter, position is defined
with 1 being to the left of the button. So, in a 10-handed table,
position 1 would be the small blind, 2 would be the big blind, and
position 10 would be the button.
To use this filter, first you have to enter a player's name.
This is the player who you want to be in a certain position.
Then choose one of the buttons on the right,
"Set to Early", "Set to Middle", "Set to Late", "Check All",
"Clear All", or "Clear columns 1 and 2".
If you set, for example, "Player PokerPlayer is in Late position."
in the filter, only hands where PokerPlayer is in the position
specified by the "Late" column above will be used, all other hands
will be filtered out.
To set a custom position, choose just click the boxes in the table.
The table's rows specify the number of players, and the columns specifies
positions. You can set
the filter to exclude and include any combination of positions and
number of players in hands. For example, if you choose everything in
the last row, the filter will only allow hands with 10 players in them
through where the player entered played in. If you click everything in column 1,
then only hands where the player entered is to the left of the button
will be filtered through.
The "Check All" and "Clear All" buttons check all positions, or clear
all position in the checkboxes. "Clear columns 1 and 2" clears the first
2 columns, and is useful if you want to exclude hands where a player
is in the blinds.
V. Usage-Situation
These hands filter settings generally are for choosing hands where
a specific situation happens that involves a certain number of players,
or how a player acts preflop. Pressing the "Clear"
button that appears on this tab will clear this tab's filter settings only.
Hands with X to Y players in before Z preflop:
Hands where player X is in Y blinds:
Hands where player X is not in Y blinds:
Hands where player X voluntarily put money in preflop:
Hands where player X did not voluntarily put money in preflop:
Games with X to Y players in the hand not folding Z:
Set this to only view hands with a certain number of players in at a
certain street who did not fold. For example, to view hands where there
are 4 to 5 players did not fold preflop, set this to "Games with 4 to 5
players in the hand not folding preflop". If you set the street to "river", only
hands with players who showed down are counted, or players who won without a showdown.
For example, if you set this setting to "Games with 1 to 2 players in the hand not
folding river", only hands where 2 players showed down, or 1 player won because
everyone else folded will be processed.
Games with X% to Y% of the players not folding Z:
Set this to only view hands with a certain percentage of players in at a
certain street who did not fold. For example, to view hands where there
are 100% of the players did not fold preflop, set this to "Games with 100% to 100%
of the players folding preflop". If you set the street to "river", only
hands with players who showed down are counted, or players who won without a showdown.
For example, if you set this setting to "Games with 50% to 100% players in the hand not
folding river", only hands where 1/2 the players in at the river showed down,
or 1 player won because everyone else folded will be processed on a previous street
will be processed.
VI. Usage-Cards
These hands filter settings generally apply to a player's hole cards. Pressing the "Clear"
button that appears on this tab will clear this tab's filter settings only.
Player X was dealt cards preflop (player's hole cards known preflop):
Player X showed down at the river:
THIS PLAYER'S CARDS ARE ...:
VII. Usage-Board
These hands filter settings generally apply to a the board cards. Pressing the "Clear"
button that appears on this tab will clear this tab's filter settings only.
Hands Player has-Player X's hand on the Y is Z:
Draws flopped-Player X flopped a Y with the trip/set being Y:
Draws flopped-Player X flopped a Y:
Board on the X is a Y:
On the showdown, winning hand is a X:
VIII. Usage-Action
These hands filter settings generally apply to a the actions taken
(fold, bet, raise, check, etc). Pressing the "Clear"
button that appears on this tab will clear this tab's filter settings only.
Specific player's actions-X, on the Y, Z W:
Any player's actions-On the X, there was at least one Y action:
Player result-Player X, Y:
IX. Tips
Here's a tip to get a more accurate flop % for a player.
In the [Player Statistics (single)] query, it is useful
to set the hands filter to only hands
player voluntarily put money in preflop before
getting the flop percentage statistics. This will set the
flop percentage statistic to the true rate at which the player called
to see the flop, skipping blind hands where player got a free play.
You can set this by opening the hands filter, and clicking on the
"Situation" tab. Then enter that player's name in "Hands where player
[ ] voluntarily put money in preflop." Then click "Ok". That's it,
easy huh? Now that you've got a more accurate flop % for a player,
and can determine if that player plays too many hands (loose) or plays
only the really good hands (tight).
Modern cards come with all sorts of images on them. This deck
pictured above features different images from the Japanese animation Ah!
My Goddess. Obviously, the images on the backs of the cards
are all identical.
This lets you specify the type of games you want to look for. Either all
games, or 1-on-1 tables, or 5 players max tables, or full tables only.
This lets you specify the bet type of the game. The choices are all bet
types, limit games only, no-limit games only, or pot-limit games only.
By setting the big blind size ranges, you can limit the query to
only the hands of those limits. For example, if you chose
"Big blinds from 3 to 10, inclusive", then only 3-6 to 10-20 games
will be processed. To choose only one limit, enter the same big blind
size for both the greater than and less than boxes. Note that for
limit games, this setting will be equal to the small bet size. For no-limit
and pot-limit games, this setting will just be the big blind size.
This lets you choose how many players to process. By default,
hands with any number of players are processed (all hands). Click this checkbox
to set a range on the number of players in a hand. Or you can use the buttons
on the right to set to 5-8 players, or 8-10 players.
This lets you choose only hands that fall on certain dates, times,
or days of the week. This is useful to find out what
hours of the day are the best times to play, for
example. You can also find out things like if weekends are
better than weekdays for you. You can limit the data to only hands played
this month, or hands played last year, etc. To set the
date/time filter, just press the "Set Date/Time Filter..." button.
This lets you only view hands with X to Y number of
players that are in preflop before the initial action of player Z.
For example, if this is set to "Hands with 3 to 5
players in before PokerPlayer preflop", only hands that PokerPlayer
plays with 3, 4, or 5 players in preflop before him on his initial
action will be allowed. A player being in preflop, means that they
did not fold. All hands where PokerPlayer did not
play in will be skipped. This filter is useful to testing when it becomes
profitable to call with certain hands, for example, to test if it's
profitable for you to call with 97s after 4 limpers preflop.
Set this to only allow hands where player X is in the small/big/both
blinds.
For example, to only allow hands where PokerPlayer is in either blind,
set this to "Hands where PokerPlayer is in either blind". Note that all
hands where PokerPlayer did not play in will be skipped.
Set this to only allow hands where player X is not in the small/big/both
blinds.
For example, to only allow hands where PokerPlayer is not in either blind,
set this to "Hands where PokerPlayer is not in either blind". Note that all
hands where PokerPlayer did not play in will be skipped.
If this is set, only hands where the player voluntarily put money
in preflop will be processed. Examples of hands like this include
when the player called, bet, or raised preflop.
Note that all hands where player did not play in will be skipped.
If this is set, only hands where the player did not put money in
voluntarily preflop will be processed. Examples of hands like this include
when the player is in the big blind, when the player has just
posted, or when the player has timed out preflop and got
forced all-in. Note that all hands where player did not play in
will be skipped.
Setting this will allow only hands where player X was dealt cards preflop
in the hand histories read in. This means that the player's hole cards are known
preflop, irregardless of if the player showed down his cards or not. For example,
if this is set to "Player PokerPlayer was dealt cards preflop (player's hole cards known preflop)",
the only hands that are allowed will be hands where a hand history was read in that contains
these lines:
AngieX : Post Big Blind ($1.00)
Dealing...
Dealt to PokerPlayer [ 2s ]
Dealt to PokerPlayer [ As ]
sandman : Fold
WhenPigsFly : Fold
Only hands where player X showed down at the river are allowed to pass
the filter. Set this to view hands where player X showed down his hand
at the river in a showdown.
These filter settings apply only if the hand is a hold'em hand.
If the hand is an Omaha hand, this filter setting has no effect.
This filter allows you to specify the starting cards of up to two players.
Enter a player's name into the "THIS PLAYER'S CARDS ARE X" field.
Then, you can specify if hands where player X's hole cards are of
a certain type, if they are suited or not, what his/her highest and
lowest card is, and if both cards are higher or lower than a certain
card. Aces are counted as the highest card.
For example, to specify hands where PokerPlayer had a suited 1-gappers
from 6-8 up to J-K, you could set the first column to
"THIS PLAYER'S CARD ARE [PokerPlayer]",
"hole cards type 1 gapper",
"suited-ness suited",
"highest card is a(n) K",
"lowest cards is a(n) any",
"both cards are this or lower: any",
"both cards are this or higher: 6".
Use this setting to view hands where a certain player's hand on a certain
street is some hand. For example, if you want to view hands where player
PokerPlayer turned a full house, you would set this setting to "Player
PokerPlayer's hand on the turn is full house".
This lets you view hands where a certain player flopped either a set, top set, or
trips, and optionally lets you specify what the set/trip is. For example, to view
only hands where PokerPlayer flopped a set of 7's, you would set this to
"Player PokerPlayer flopped a set with the trip/set being 7". Note that a set
is defined as the player having a pocket pair, and flopping one card on the flop
matching his pocket pair, without flopping a full house. Trip is defined as when
the player does not have a pocket pair, and flops two cards that match one of
his hole cards, without flopping a full house.
This lets you view only hands where a certain player flopped a flush draw.
You can set this to any 4-flush draw, or a nut 4-flush draw. A 4-flush draw
is defined as when the player has two suited cards, and exactly two of that
suit is on the flop, or when the player has two offsuit cards, but
3 cards matching one of his/her hole card suits flop.
For example, to view hands where player PokerPlayer flops a nut four flush, you
would set this to "Player PokerPlayr flopped a nut 4 flush".
This lets you specify only hands where the board on a certain street is either
a 3 flush, 4 flush, potential straight (2 cards missing), potential straight
(1 card missing), pair, or two pair.
With this filter, you can see how well you do when you have two pair and the board
on the river is 4 flushed, for example. You can view this by setting, assuming you
are ThisIsMe, "Player ThisIsMe's hand on the river is two pair", and then setting
this setting to "Board on the river is a 4 flush".
This lets you view only hands where there was a showdown, and let's you specify
the winning hand at the showdown. For example, to only view hands where 2 pair
won, set this to "On the showdown, winning hand is a two pair".
This filter lets you specify up to 3 player's actions on a certain street.
For example, you can view hands where player PokerPlayer check-raises at any
time on the turn, by setting this to "PokerPlayer, on the turn, did this at
least once: check-raise". Or, if you wanted to see when PokerPlayer raises
as his first action preflop, you would set this to "PokerPlayer, on the preflop,
1st action is raise".
This setting let's you view only hands where there was a at least one of this
action on a certain street. For example, to view hands where someone check-raised
preflop, you would set this to "On the preflop, there was at least one check-raise action".
This setting lets you filter for hands where a certain player either showed down
and took the whole pot, showed down and split the pot, showed down and
won nothing, or took the pot without a showdown.
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