How to Export Your Winamax Hand History (The Real Folder Path)

Winamax doesn't have an "export hand history" button anywhere in its client. The room writes a plain text file to your hard drive every time a hand finishes, and finding that folder is the entire task. If you've searched the client's menus looking for an export option, you've already spent longer looking than the actual fix takes.

This matters because Poker Debrief reads Winamax hand histories directly, and the first message from almost every new Winamax user is some version of "where are my files." Below is the exact path, what changes between the desktop client and the browser version, and what to do when the folder isn't where it should be.

Where Winamax actually stores hand histories

On Windows, the default location is C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Winamax Poker\accounts\{screen_name}\history. Each poker room account you've logged into gets its own subfolder under accounts, and inside history you'll find one .txt file per table, named with the table and date. Tournament hands and cash game hands land in the same structure, just separated by table name.

On a Mac, the equivalent path sits inside ~/Library/Application Support/winamax, again with an accounts/{screen_name}/history structure underneath. macOS hides the Library folder by default in Finder, so if you don't see it, hold Option while clicking the Go menu in Finder and it appears in the list.

Why does the folder sometimes move to AppData instead?

A handful of players report a different path after a fresh Winamax install or a client update: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\winamax\documents\accounts\{screen_name}\history. One thread on the Xeester support forum describes exactly this: the default "hand history location" field pointed at ...\winamax\documents with no history subfolder appended, which threw a "this folder is not usable" error until the user manually added \history to the path (xeester.com, [résolu] Dossier historique de jeu : Winamax, 2023). That's not a bug you caused. It's an inconsistency between what the client's settings screen shows you and what the folder is actually named on disk.

If your tracking software can't find your hands, check both locations before assuming the files are gone. AppData is a hidden folder on Windows by default, so if you've never enabled "show hidden items" in File Explorer, you may simply not have seen it.

How to find a specific hand you just played

You don't need to open a folder of text files to review one hand. Winamax's own account history does this for you, and it's the fastest route if you only want to revisit a single tournament or Sit & Go rather than dig through raw files.

Log into your Winamax account on the website (not the desktop client), hover your username, and open your personal space. From there, go to My Account → Account History, where you can filter by date range and game type. Find the tournament, open it, and copy its tournament ID. Then navigate to the replayer section of your account and paste that ID in. Winamax emails you a replay link within 10 to 15 minutes, a delay confirmed independently by two separate walkthroughs of the same feature (YouTube, Comment récupérer son replayer de tournois Winamax, MaxKeane; YouTube, Comment revoir un tournoi ou partager un replay sur Winamax, nAYAn biGGie).

Does the replayer work for cash games too?

The replayer flow described above is built around Winamax's tournament and Sit & Go history, and both source videos demonstrate it exclusively on tournament IDs. For cash game hands, the local text file in your history folder is the reliable source: cash tables don't get the same tournament-ID-based replayer link, so you're reading the raw hand text directly, or pasting it into a third-party hand converter.

That's a real limitation worth naming plainly: if your leak lives in cash games, the built-in replayer isn't the tool for finding it.

Turning a raw hand history file into something readable

Winamax hand history files are plain text, formatted in the room's own syntax rather than the more common PokerStars-style layout most tracking tools expect. Opening one directly, you'll see the full hand with street-by-street actions, but it won't display the way a HUD or a replayer would.

One demonstrated workaround is a browser-based hand converter: copy the hand text out of the .txt file, paste it into the converter's input box, and it reformats the hand into a standard layout with a visual replay option (YouTube, Winamax - Hand Converter Tutorial, WeakTight). The same video shows an alternate route for players already running PokerTracker 4 or Hold'em Manager 2: those programs can copy an individual hand directly from their own hand list, skipping the raw file entirely.

What if I don't want to install tracking software just to read one hand?

You don't have to install anything to read a single hand. The text file itself is human-readable once you know the notation (blinds, actions, board cards, and pot size are all labeled inline), and a converter tool only becomes useful when you want a cleaner visual replay or plan to import many hands in bulk. For reviewing a handful of decisions from one session, opening the .txt file in Notepad and reading the relevant hand is often faster than setting up an import pipeline.

If you're building a habit of reviewing every session rather than one hand at a time, the mechanics change: you're now looking at the whole file, sorting the hands that mattered from the ones that didn't, and quantifying what a specific mistake cost you. That's a different problem from locating a folder, and it's covered in more depth in how to review a poker session in 30 minutes and actually find your leaks.

Comparing your export options by what each one actually gives you

Reading that table straight through, the pattern is clear: the free options cost you time, the paid options cost you money, and neither one hands you a leak-by-leak breakdown of the session. That gap, turning a pile of correctly-located hand history files into a ranked list of what actually lost you big blinds, is where a dedicated review tool earns its place instead of a tracker. Poker Debrief reads Winamax's export format directly, alongside six other rooms, and turns one session into a written debrief with the hands that decided it reviewed street by street; there's no live-play feature in it, by design, since anything that assists a decision at the table is against every room's terms.

What actually goes wrong when the export doesn't work

Most "my hand history disappeared" reports trace back to one of two causes: a third-party import tool moving files out of the folder it just read, or the folder path silently changing after a client reinstall. One Xeester forum thread documents exactly the first case: a user's Winamax history files vanished from the expected folder after running an import, and the fix (posted by a forum admin) was to check the tool's own processed directory, since some import tools relocate the source files instead of copying them (xeester.com, L'importation de mes sessions m'a supprimé mes fichiers history hands Winamax, 2022).

Why would a Winamax update change my history folder path?

Winamax versions its client, and a version bump can change where new hand history files get written even when old files stay where they were. The same forum thread that reported the AppData path also referenced an alternate location under a hashed folder name (wam.0435...) inside Local Store\documents\accounts, which one user found their newer sessions had moved to without any notification (xeester.com, [résolu] Dossier historique de jeu : Winamax, 2023). If your tracker stops picking up new hands after a Winamax update, that's the first place to check, not a broken installation.

According to the European Union's single market rules, gambling and betting services, including online poker, are excluded from cross-border harmonization and remain subject to national licensing rules that vary by member state, which is part of why a France-licensed room like Winamax structures its data storage differently from US-facing sites like ACR. If you play on more than one room, expect the folder layout, file format, and even what counts as an "account history" to differ each time; there's no universal path across rooms.

"A folder path shouldn't be the hardest part of reviewing your own poker session, but for Winamax specifically, it's the step that stops most players before they even open a hand."

The Poker Debrief team, September 2026

The bottom line on exporting Winamax hands

There's no export function to look for because Winamax already writes every hand to a local file the moment it finishes. The task isn't exporting, it's locating: Documents\Winamax Poker\accounts\{username}\history on Windows, the equivalent under Application Support\winamax on Mac, with an AppData fallback path if a client update moved things.

Once you can open that folder reliably, what you do next depends on what you're trying to learn. A single hand is readable straight from the text file or through Winamax's own replayer. A full session, especially one where you're trying to work out what actually cost you money, needs more structure than a folder of .txt files gives you on its own, which is where what a poker leak really costs you, measured in big blinds picks up the thread. For deeper platform mechanics on ACR specifically, the folder location and a version-specific bug are covered separately in where's your ACR hand history folder. If you're comparing paid study tools once you've got hands in hand, ai-first.fr covers the broader landscape of AI-assisted analysis tools outside poker specifically.