Advanced filters

The advanced filters modal and Action Lines: how to isolate any situation, down to the precise action sequence.

Gandalf

Co-founder of Poker Sciences

The advanced filters modal lets you either run a one-off search (find a specific spot you want to revisit) or set up a Quick Filter when you identify a precise spot you will want to analyze session after session.

The Filter button at the top right of the Review screen. — The filters panel opens via the button at the top right of your screen.

Clicking the button at the top right of the screen opens the filters panel.

Some tabs of this panel are shared between the Spins and Hands views. Others, more granular (position, stack, spots, cards, action lines…), only exist in the Hands view, because a hand carries that information whereas a full tournament does not.

The filters panel, opened on the Spin Info tab, with an active filter chip at the top and the Action Lines panel expanded at the bottom. — The chips at the top under the tabs display the active filters. The Action Lines panel is at the bottom. We will see it just after.

1. What you can filter

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

Tab	Available filters	Example
Spin Info	Tournament metadata: period, buy-in, multiplier, room, specific opponent by username.	Keep only your €5 Spins played on Winamax this week.
Position	Hero's position at the table, with Limp / Raise / Shove sub-options when relevant.	View only your hands played in BB in HU.
Stack	Effective stack range (in bb).	Keep only spots at 15 bb or less.
Phase	Most advanced street the hand reached.	Isolate hands that went to the river.
Spots	Hero's postflop role: Aggressor (C-bet, 2/3-Barrel, Delay C-bet, vs Donk…) or Defender (vs C-bet, Donk, Probe…).	View only your flop C-bets.
Pots	Type of pot built preflop: limp, Single-Raised Pot, ISO, 3-bet or multiway.	Keep only 3-bet pots.
Cards	Hero's cards, via a visual selector across the 169 combos.	View only your AA and KK.
EV & Accuracy	Sort and filter on the hand's result or EV, with preflop mistakes only as a bonus (Pro and Max plans).	Show your largest EV losses first.

The Spin Info tab is the only one shared with the Spins view. All the others are specific to the Hands view, because they work at the scale of an individual hand.

2. Action Lines

We get to the most technical filter in the panel, but also the most powerful: once the code is understood, you can find any sequence of actions.

The filters seen so far describe situations (which position, which pot type, which stack). They cannot tell "which precise actions were chained together".

That's exactly what Action Lines allow: filtering by a precise action sequence, street by street.

Concretely, for each street (Preflop, Flop, Turn, River) you have a text field in which you describe the sequence with a compact notation. The Action Lines area is at the bottom of the panel and can be collapsed or expanded with a click. The fields automatically switch to uppercase as you type.

The Action Lines panel expanded, with its four fields Preflop, Flop, Turn and River and an example placeholder in each. — One field per street. The grayed-out placeholder gives an example of a valid sequence to remind you of the syntax.

The basic notation

The idea is simple: you list every action of the street in order, starting from the first player to act. Each action is written in two parts: a letter that names the action (Bet, Raise, Call…) and a sizing that specifies its size. Even a call has a sizing: it's the size of the bet you call.

For sizing, you have two options: provide a digit 1 to 5 (precise size, see the details below) or write ? to accept any size. Only three actions have no sizing and stand alone: X (check), A (all-in) and L (limp). Symbols are chained together without spaces.

Symbol	Meaning
B	Bet (or Open preflop)
R	Raise (3-bet)
C	Call
F	Fold
X	Check
A	All-in
L	Limp (preflop only)
1 to 5	Size of the bet, the raise, or the bet you call or fold against (follows B, R, C, F)
?	Wildcard: any action or any size

A boat at sea during an explanation of Action Lines. — I understand you're terribly seasick, but couldn't you come help me? I don't understand any of this Action Lines stuff.

A few examples

Before reading the examples, a note on sizing: digits 1 to 5 are not direct bb amounts, they are size brackets that change depending on the action and the street. For example, preflop, B1 corresponds to a 2 bb open (min-raise) and B2 to an open between 2 and 2.55 bb. The full breakdown of every bracket is in the Going further section at the bottom.

Street	Sequence	What it isolates
Preflop	`LR?C?`	First to act limps (BTN in 3-max, SB in HU), one player raises (any sizing), another calls
Preflop	`B2C2`	Open 2-2.55x, call vs 2-2.55x
Preflop	`B2R`	Open-raise size 2 (2-2.55x) facing a 3-bet
Flop	`B1?`	All hands where the first action is a small bet (<35% of the pot)
Turn	`B?C?`	All bet-call turn sequences, all sizes combined

If you type incorrect syntax, the filter does not warn you: it simply returns zero results. A N active counter on the panel title confirms that your inputs were taken into account.

Action Lines are only available in the Hands view: the Spins view reasons at the tournament scale and has no individual actions to filter.

A complete example: isolating a precise spot

Say we want to specifically study the times we got shoved on our 2-barrel in BTN vs BB. We then combine one Action Line per street:

Street	Action Line	Reading
Preflop	`B1F1C1`	BTN opens 2x (B1), SB folds vs 2x (F1), BB calls vs 2x (C1)
Flop	`XB?C?`	BB checks, BTN bets any sizing, BB calls
Turn	`XB?A`	BB checks, BTN 2-barrels any sizing, BB shoves all-in

To go faster, we could just as well have skipped the preflop line and instead activated the BTN vs BB filter in the *Position* tab of the panel: we isolate the exact same spot with less typing.

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