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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 6:16am Post subject: Poker Tracker database size |
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Full House
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 1112
WPP: 114
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Question on Poker Tracker database size:
I usually play poker on my old laptop and it only has a 3Gb hard drive. There is nothing on this latop but Windows 2000, about 7 different poker clients and MS Excel and Word.
How big does the Poker Tracker database get? I know it is a direct relationship between the number of hand histories imported but can anyone give me an estimate of database size say per every 5000 hands?
Also, are there any options to archive results after importing so many hands? Ex., I now have imported 20K hands. Can I take the info gathered from those first 20K hands, archive it, delete the first 20K hands and begin importing anew?
I want to break down and finally get Poker Tracker but i don't want it to use up all of the remaining space on my HD.
Thanks in advance for any info on this! |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 8:24am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 1277
WPP: 105
Location: Drowning in prosperity
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I think PT is just a front-end to an Access DB. You should be able to create a new DB and archive the old .mdb file, but I've never tried.
Not sure why you'd want to do this, though, since the biggest value from PT (for me, anyway) is the info you get about other players, and you would lose that by going to a new .mdb file. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 8:30am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 3580
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Location: emo-kid
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| i tried the demo, and have 986 hands in it, and the database file is 5 megs. so basically 5 megs for every 1000 hands. 10k hands would be 50 megs. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 8:53am Post subject: |
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Royal Flush
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 17381
WPP: 82
Location: Walk the Walk, Flop the Flop.
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| I have well over 25k hands and my database is at around 200mb. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 9:02am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 19 Dec 2003
Posts: 1934
WPP: 77
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Toasty you've got plenty of room on your HD for Poker Tracker db.
But YES there is an option in Poker Tracker to take out the old hands. Basically you would just start new db's. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 9:21am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 3580
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| do you guys think PokerTracker is worth the money? i think after i win enough i might consider buying it. just knowing what people lose money is gold by itself. it's surprising how some people lose every time they are in a hand with you. |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 9:22am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
Posts: 1112
WPP: 114
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That was my next question. I didn't actually want to archive the information. So, I guess the real question is is there a way to extract the information and keep it in Poker Tracker in the form of stats but simply archive the hand histories so as to keep the DB size down?
I know it's kind of wanting the best of both worlds but I was just wondering if it was possible.
Fnord - So 25K hands are roughly equivalent to 200Mb. That's good info. Thanks! |
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Posted: Thu, 30 Sep 2004, 10:27am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 617
WPP: 257
Location: Vegas
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| hypermegachi wrote: | | do you guys think PokerTracker is worth the money? i think after i win enough i might consider buying it. just knowing what people lose money is gold by itself. it's surprising how some people lose every time they are in a hand with you. |
It has definately helped me in my game. The two biggest areas:
1 When I run into the same player again later, I can find out how aggressive they are. Last night, I played against a player who had about 100 hands in my PT. The previous session, he had raised 12 out of 12 times after his PFR. I looked back to see what he had been raising with and found all kind of weird hands, such as J9, Q2, ect. I wound up taking 4 good sized pots from him, in about 50-60 hands, only because I knew what kind of crap he was raising. Of course my cards helped, but two of the hands I would have folded without this extra knowledge. Of course, it works the other way too; I can spot a TAG player, and know to get out of his way he is playing a hand hard-n-fast.
2. Table selection is a peice of cake. I just search for the players who have lost large amounts, seeing 80% flops, to much PFR, ect. These are in the summary tab.
Dont base any of this info on less than 100 hands though; even then it may have been a streak. |
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