Importing your first hands

Step-by-step guide to importing hand histories and starting to analyze.

Gandalf

Co-founder of Poker Sciences

Now that you know what a tracker is and how it works behind the scenes, let's get practical: how to import your hands.

Intro illustration for importing your first hands — Look on the bright side, this little detour gives me a chance to explain how to import your first hands into Poker Spin Tracker.

1. Supported rooms

The tracker currently supports Spins from 7 rooms: Winamax, PokerStars, Betclic, GGPoker, iPoker, Unibet and PartyPoker. More rooms will be added in the future.

For each room, you'll need to get your hand history files. The format and number of files vary by room:

Room	Format	Files to import
Winamax	TXT	Hands + Summary
PokerStars	TXT	Hands + Summary
Betclic	TXT	Hands (all-in-one)
GGPoker	TXT	Hands + Summary
iPoker	XML	Hands (all-in-one)
Unibet	TXT	Hands only
PartyPoker	TXT	Hands (all-in-one)

Some rooms separate hands and tournament summaries into two distinct files.

Only import native files from your room, meaning the hand history files as generated by the room. Never import an export from another tracker (PT4, Hand2Note...), it would corrupt your data.

2. Live import

This is the most convenient import mode for daily use. The first thing to do is find the folder where your room saves hand histories. For example, if you play on Winamax, it's usually in the Winamax folder, then in a "history" subfolder.

Since each room has its own system (which can evolve), the best way to figure out how the room you play on works is to do a quick Google search or ask ChatGPT. Nothing complicated.

Once you've found the folder, add it to the tracker via the + Add button. You can configure multiple folders if you play on several rooms.

Tracker live import zone — The live import zone: select a folder, click Start, and play.

Before you start playing, click the Start button. The tracker then monitors the folder in real time and automatically imports every new file that appears. No need to touch anything while you play.

At the end of your session, click Stop to get the full session summary (tournament count, profit, CEV, field composition...).

The live session also stops automatically after 10 minutes of inactivity (no new files detected for 10 minutes).

3. Manual import

Manual import is useful for importing existing history or one-off files. Three options:

Tracker manual import zone — The manual import zone: drag and drop or click to select.

Drag and drop files or folders directly into the import zone
Click to open the file picker
Alt + click to open the folder picker (to directly import all contents of a folder)

You can import multiple files or multiple folders at once. When a folder is selected, the tracker explores subfolders and processes each batch separately.

For large imports, compress your files into .zip before importing. The tracker reads them directly, and it's significantly faster than importing files one by one.

Manual import is therefore perfect for importing a large history (several months or years of play). Duplicates are automatically detected, so no risk of importing the same hands twice.

Illustration of manual import when getting started with Poker Spin Tracker — Manual import is perfect if you are getting started with Poker Spin Tracker and want to import your hand history.

4. Common mistakes and room specifics

Non-native files: once again, never import a PT4 or Hand2Note export. Only use the original hand history files from your room.

A few room-specific notes:

GGPoker: hand history files are anonymized.

As a result, it is impossible for Poker Spin Tracker to classify opponents on GG Poker as Regs or Fish. They are therefore all marked as Fish by default.

Betclic: only one export per day is possible from the room.

5. Import history

The import page also contains a history zone that lets you visualize your activity over the year.

The heatmap at the top shows the days you played the most. Each square represents a day, and the color indicates Spin volume: the redder the square, the more you played that day.

It's a great way to see at a glance how your sessions are distributed throughout the year.

Below, the history table lists all your imports with details for each: file name, hand count, hands imported, duplicates, invalid hands, preflop accuracy, fish/reg ratio, and import date.

You can click on a row in the table to display the corresponding import summary again.

Import history with heatmap and table — The annual heatmap and detailed history of each import.

If you haven't imported any hands yet, now is the time to get started! Even a small file is enough to start exploring the tracker.

Key takeaways

• The tracker supports 7 rooms (Winamax, PokerStars, Betclic, GGPoker, iPoker, Unibet, PartyPoker). More will be added

• Live import is the daily mode: configure a folder, click Start, play, then Stop to see the summary

• Manual import is for existing histories: drag-drop, file or folder selection. Use .zip for large imports

• Never import an export from another tracker. Only use native files from your room

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