Export guide
Export your iPoker network hand history
iPoker skins write hand histories as XML, in a folder named after whichever skin you play on.
How to get the file
3 steps
- 1
Enable hand histories
Find the hand-history setting in your skin's client and switch it on. iPoker is a network of many skins, and each one dresses the same client differently.
- 2
Open the folder
Look under your documents for the folder named after your skin, then HandHistory.
- 3
Drop the file here
iPoker files are XML rather than plain text. That is expected, and our reader takes them as they are.
Where the files live
- Windows: Documents\<skin name>\HandHistory\<your screen name>
What usually goes wrong
- The files are XML, so they will look wrong if you expect the PokerStars text layout. They are not wrong.
- iPoker is one of the rooms whose betting conventions are least clearly documented, so we mark it beta and report rather than guess.
Once you have the file
Two things are worth doing with it. The first is free: drop it into the statistics reader to get the numbers a tracker would have given you, or into the replayer to walk a hand street by street with the pot, the stack-to-pot ratio and the pot odds of each decision worked out for you. Both run in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.
The second is the reason this site exists. A session debrief reads the whole file, picks the hands that decided the session, reviews them street by street and prices what each mistake cost in big blinds. The first one is free and complete.
Common questions
Why are my iPoker hand histories XML?
Because that is the format the network writes. It is readable and complete, just not the plain-text layout other rooms use. Our iPoker reader parses the XML directly.
One thing this is not
Everything on this page is about files from a session that is already over. Nothing here is usable during play, and real-time assistance is against the rules of every room listed.
Your session, debriefed
These calculators answer one spot. A debrief reads the whole session: the hands that decided it, reviewed street by street, and your leaks priced in big blinds. The first one is free and complete, not a preview.
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