The Filters panel

The Filters panel lets you either run a one-off search (find a targeted spot you want to revisit), or lay the groundwork for building a Quick Filter when you identify a precise spot you will want to analyze session after session.

Clicking the button at the top right of the screen opens the Filters panel. It is split into tabs, each one covering a type of criterion.

Some tabs are shared between the Spins and Hands views; others, more granular (position, stack, spots, cards, action line…), only exist in the Hands view, because a hand carries that information whereas a whole tournament does not. At the very bottom, a field lets you name the filter combination to save it as a Quick Filter.

As mentioned earlier, the panel is split into tabs. Here is what each one covers, with a typical use case:

The Date, Spin Info, Number of tables and Opponent tabs are shared with the Spins view. All the others are specific to the Hands view, because they work at the scale of an individual hand.

Here comes the most technical filter in the panel, but also the most powerful: once you get the principle, you can find any sequence of actions. It now has its own tab: Action line.

The filters seen so far describe situations (which position, which pot type, which stack). They cannot say “which precise actions followed one another”.

You build the line by clicking. The tab shows one bar per street (Preflop, Flop, Turn, River). You click a bar to select it: a row of buttons then appears just below, and each click adds an action to the end of the line, which shows up in real time in the bar.

The basic notation

The idea is simple: you list every action of the street in order, starting from the first player to act. The line describes the street in full: it only keeps the hands whose sequence matches exactly, action for action. The available buttons are Check, Bet, Call, Raise and Fold (preflop there is no Bet: you raise). The ⌫ key clears the last action added.

The “?” button is worth a word of explanation: it is a wildcard worth exactly one action, whatever it is (check, bet, call, raise or fold). It takes one slot in the line, not several: for two indifferent actions, you place two ?. Example: “a bet, then any response” is built by clicking Bet then ?, which gives B ? in the bar.

Specifying the size of a bet or a raise

By default, a Bet or a Raise accepts any size. To narrow it down, a second row shows an “After a bet or raise:” setting (“After a raise:” preflop), which becomes “On the bet:” or “On the raise:” once the bet or the raise is placed. As soon as the last action is a bet or a raise, the Settings… chip becomes available. One click opens a small window to size that particular bet or raise.

Two settings live side by side there:

• All-in: Any (a shove counts like any other bet or raise), Never all-in (a bet or raise that is not a shove) or Always all-in (the shove only). In Always all-in, there is no size left to specify: a shove puts the whole stack in. In the bar, an all-in bet or raise gets an A (RA), and a Never all-in one a ∅ (R∅).
• The size range: Exact (one value), Between (a min and a max) or Above (from a threshold), including or excluding each bound. Preflop is set in x (the total raise amount, in big blinds); postflop in % of the pot or in x of the previous bet.

A few examples

Once the line is built, the bar shows a compact summary of the sequence (the letters X B C R F, the wildcard ?, and the size in brackets when there is one). Here are a few examples of sequences and what they isolate:

A complete example: isolating a precise spot

Say we want to study the times we got raised all-in on our 2-barrel in BTN vs BB. We build one line per street: