Introduction to Buying Hand Histories

Buy Hand Histories – Reveiws of HH sellers

Many players have begun buying hand histories instead of datamining themselves.

This article will show you the benefits of buying hand histories as opposed to datamining yourself. If you aren’t familiar with datamining, I recommend that you read An Introduction to Poker Datamining before you continue.

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Benefits of Buying Hand Histories

During the last year more and more people have begun selling hand histories. The competition has resulted in some pretty dramatic price drops, and sometimes it is actually cheaper to buy hand histories than datamine yourself when you consider the cost of electricity for your computer.

However, the cost isn’t really the main thing to consider – The ability to get access to millions of hand histories from the exact stakes you play can give you an advantage so big that as long as the price is reasonable it shouldn’t really be that much of a concern.

If you buy 1 million hand histories each month, you will end up with data on 90-95% of the players, who play the same stakes as you. Think about that for a second – More often than not you will have a read on every single player at a table before you have played your first hand.

Drawbacks of Buying Hand Histories

Unfortunately not all pokerrooms allow you to use purchased hand histories while you play.

I strongly advice you that you respect the rules of the pokerroom you play at, and only buy hand histories if you are allowed to do so.

Please not that the pokerrooms can’t actually prohibit you from buying hand histories – Just from using them when you play at their site.

It is much like a dress code at a casino. There are no law against wearing pink overalls and a clown nose, but a casino can refuse to let you through the door.

Where to Buy Hand Histories

There are 2 big providers of hand histories: Hand HQ or HHDealer. Their prices and level of service are roughly the same, however, there are some small differences.

If you have never bough hand histories before, I recommend that you use Hand HQ, since their order process is easier.

I personally prefer HHDealer due to the fact that they offer a monthly subscription where you receive new hand histories by email or through their free software each day. They also offer a 50% discount for selected hand histories.

Unfortunately HHDealer only sell hand histories from Party Poker, Full Tilt Poker, iPoker and PokerStars.

Hand HQ sell hand histories from all the sites that HHDealer does, and also offer Ongame and Cereus.

Hand History Providers Listed by Pokerroom

Below are a list of where you can buy hand histories for a particular pokerroom or network.

Hand HQ

HHDealer