It is time to finally open up this forum and release both the HHDB codebase and the database itself.
Originally, this data was gathered (and partially paid for from hand history providers) by the old HHEX (hand history exchange) on pokerai.org. It was a private forum and group that dedicated a lot of time and some money to gathering these hands. indiana (with the help of others I think) then came up with a new method of storing these hands more efficiently and built most of the codebase to convert hands from the site's format to his format plus basic analysis tools to parse the hands and work with the data.
The hands in the database are obfuscated and all player data was anonymized. The original hands were lost, or at least are not in mine and anybody else's possession as far as I know.
CodeI have pushed all of indy's code plus all of the code that I have built on top of it to github. This includes a small subset of the database to test your code against before running it against the entire database. The entire repository is published under GPL v3 as intended by indiana (see links below).
Feel free to checkout the code, fork the repository and/or contribute to it directly by building your own analysis tools:
https://github.com/coffee4tw/poker-hhdbHH FormatsSamples for converting the hand histories into different formats are in the codebase.
One of them is for PS format I believe and the other is for ACPC format.
I found the PS format in PokerHandPrinter:
https://github.com/coffee4tw/poker-hhdb ... inter.javaI'm not sure where the ACPC one is. I know I wrote it at some point and you can see the converted files in here:
https://github.com/coffee4tw/poker-hhdb ... ample/uofaIt should be fairly easy to adapt to your needs though.
Hole CardsThere are no hole cards. You only see a players cards when they went to showdown or they decided to show them.
Full DB DetailsFriar is kindly hosting these now at
HTTP:
http://poker-db.veila.net/ (feel free to use wget to grab the whole she'bang)
TORRENT:
http://poker-db.veila.net/HHDB.torrentMagnet: url=http://poker-db.veila.net/
To all users -> Please Please make a modest committment to seed this. Doing so will ensure this is available for years to come, and if we all throttle to a reasonable value, nobody will have to singlehandedly support the whole thing. Trickle.
NotesP.S.: Original about the HHDB when access was restricted:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/15/po ... ta-452536/http://poker-ai.org/archive/www.pokerai ... f=3&t=1910