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Hand history import

Pasting the text hand histories a poker site saves, so the app grades the decisions you made in real games.

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What it means
PokerStars and GGPoker save every hand you play as plain text: the seats and stacks, the blinds, your hole cards, each action and the board. The import reads that text in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
How it is calculated
Each hand is replayed through the same table engine as /tournament, so every one of your decisions is graded the way a table decision is: preflop against the charts, flops against a solver pack where one covers the spot, turns and rivers by equity against a range. Hands the importer cannot follow, such as Omaha, straddles or run-it-twice, are listed with the reason instead of being skipped.
Worked example
You paste 250 GGPoker hands. One river call with top pair facing a 3bb bet into 4bb grades as a Blunder, and once you save the results that spot becomes a Drill card due today.
Why it matters
Drills train the spots the app picks. Your own hands show the spots you meet and the mistakes you make.

See also: Grade, Approximate grade, Hand replayer, Spaced repetition