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Hand analyzer.
Paste a hand history and get it back as something you can actually read: who sat where, what went in on each street, how big the pot was before every decision, and the price each player was being offered when it was on him. It reads the hand. It does not grade it.
the reader
What this page will not do. It will not tell you whether a call was right, whether you should have raised, or where you are leaking money. A single hand does not contain the information that would take, and a tool that answered anyway would be making it up. What a real verdict looks like, and what it takes to reach one, is on the example report.
Nothing loaded yet. Press the example button if you want to see the shape of the output before you paste your own hand, or paste one straight in; nothing you put in this box leaves your browser.
what it works out
A transcript with the sums filled in.
Three things get worked out from what is in the file. The positions come from the line that names the button seat, counted round the table from there, so a seat number becomes a name you can reason about. The pot before each action is everything already collected plus everything put in this street so far. And the price on offer is what it costs to call divided by the pot after that call, which is the same division the pot odds calculator does one decision at a time.
That price is a fact about the pot, not about the hand. It tells you the share of the time a caller has to win for the call to break even, and nothing else. Whether he had that share is a separate question that needs his cards, and if you want it, the equity calculator will work it out against a range you type in. Reading the two side by side is where a hand review actually starts.
Any line the reader does not understand is listed at the end, and that list is the point rather than an apology. A tool that silently drops a raise it could not parse gives you a pot that is too small and pot odds that are too generous, and you would have no way of knowing. If something is missing from the output, the reason is in that list. The vocabulary it uses, from pot odds to position, is in the glossary, and the order of betting it assumes is in the Texas Hold'em rules.
a worked example, calculated when this page was built
Blinds of 50 and 100, six handed, the button holding on a board that runs out . Below is every point in the hand where somebody had to put money in to keep playing, with the price they were offered.
| Street | Who | Action | Pot before | To call | Price on offer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preflop | UTG | folds | 150 | 100 | 40.0% |
| Preflop | MP | folds | 150 | 100 | 40.0% |
| Preflop | CO | raises to 250 | 150 | 100 | 40.0% |
| Preflop | BTN | calls 250 | 400 | 250 | 38.5% |
| Preflop | SB | folds | 650 | 200 | 23.5% |
| Preflop | BB | calls 150 | 650 | 150 | 18.8% |
| Flop | BTN | calls 400 | 1,200 | 400 | 25.0% |
| Flop | BB | folds | 1,600 | 400 | 20.0% |
| Turn | BTN | calls 900 | 2,500 | 900 | 26.5% |
The pot finished at 3,400, having been 800 after the preflop betting and 1,600 after the flop. Notice the two prices the button was offered: 25.0 percent on the flop and 26.5 percent on the turn. Notice too that the three preflop folds each turned down a price, and that a fold is a decision the same way a call is. Those are the numbers. Whether taking them was right depends on what the raiser has, and this page does not know that and does not claim to.
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One hand cannot tell you what you do wrong.
A pattern can. The same call, made forty times in the same spot, is either a leak or it is not, and that is a question about your history rather than about this hand. What that looks like when it is done properly, including what the conclusion rests on, is set out in full on one page.
hand history questions
What does this hand analyzer do?
It reads a hand history and writes back what happened in it: which seat held which position, what each player put in on each street, how big the pot was before every decision, and what price a player was being offered when he had to call. It is a transcript with the arithmetic filled in.
Does it tell me whether I played the hand well?
No, and it will not pretend to. Judging a hand needs things a single history does not contain: what that opponent does with the rest of his range, what you do with the rest of yours, and how the two of you have been playing for the last hour. This page only reads what is on the page in front of it.
Which hand history formats does it understand?
The common text export used by PokerStars and by most sites that copy its layout, including the street markers, the seat and button lines, the blind and ante posts, and the actions. Any line it cannot read is listed at the bottom rather than quietly skipped, so you can always see how much of your hand it actually understood.
Are the pot odds it shows the same as the pot odds calculator?
Yes, the same division: what it costs to call, divided by the pot after your call. The difference is that here it is worked out for every decision in the hand at once, from the amounts that are already in the history, rather than typed in by hand.
Is my hand history uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole thing is parsed in your browser and nothing is sent, stored, or logged. Close the tab and it is gone. There is no account and nothing to sign up for.
Why are the positions sometimes missing?
Because they are worked out from the line naming the button seat together with the seat list. If your history has neither, there is no honest way to say who was on the button, so the tool leaves the column empty instead of guessing.
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