HH Converter test thread...

[Talking Poker]

I've uploaded the new version. We should test out some high stakes hands too. Here, let's give this a go...

Before:
Full Tilt Poker Game #1896599427: Table Alvarez - $500/$1000 - $30,000 Cap No Limit Hold'em - 5:31:45 ET - 2007/03/01
Seat 1: ballsrider ($66,498.50)
Seat 5: durrrr ($54,755)
Seat 8: 93TilInfinity ($73,494.50)
93TilInfinity posts the small blind of $500
ballsrider posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
durrrr calls $1,000
93TilInfinity raises to $5,000
ballsrider folds
durrrr raises to $30,000, and is capped
93TilInfinity calls $25,000, and is capped
durrrr shows [Ah 9h]
93TilInfinity shows [Kc Ks]
*** FLOP *** [2c 6c 3h]
*** TURN *** [2c 6c 3h] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [2c 6c 3h 5h] [As]
durrrr shows a pair of Aces
93TilInfinity shows a pair of Kings
durrrr wins the pot ($60,999) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $61,000 | Rake $1
Board: [2c 6c 3h 5h As]
Seat 1: ballsrider (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: durrrr (button) showed [Ah 9h] and won ($60,999) with a pair of Aces
Seat 8: 93TilInfinity (small blind) showed [Kc Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings

After:
Full Tilt Cash game, $/$ Limit, 3 players <-- Stakes still missing.
Hand History Converted by
SB: $73494.50 <-- Line spacing not showing up after cut and paste...? That's odd.
BB: $66498.50
Button: $54755
SB posts Small Blind $500
BB posts Big Blind $1000
Pre-flop: ($1500)
Button calls $1000 ($2500)
SB raises to $1000 ($3000) <---Hrm. These numbers aren't correct. See above.
BB folds
Button raises to $1000 ($3000) <-- Same here, obv.
SB calls $25000 ($28000)
Flop: 2 6 3 ($28000)
Turn: 2 6 3 5 ($28000)
River: 2 6 3 5 A ($28000)
Button wins $60999 with a pair of Aces <-- Showdown isn't correct. We should see both players hole cards and results (see bolded lines above).

[bunny]

Would need some commentary on a friend's hand history. He thinks the play was incorrect, I think the play was fine. Would your converter be able to handle this?

*I like the idea that players names are kept out of the hand history.

[de-coder]

I'm not sure what you're asking for here...

[bunny]

I have a HH from a friend who was playing in a tournament. I would like to leave the player names out, which is why I wanted to use your converter. I have tried 3 times and each time I receive this error message.

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '' for inclusion (include_path='.') in /home/mark/web/talkingpoker.com/hh/hh.php on line 52

[Talking Poker]

This is a much more descriptive explanation of the problem than your previous post.

I'm sure de-coder will be able to track it down. PM him the HH so he can test with it.

[de-coder]

The converter only supports pokerstars and full tilt right now.

[Talking Poker]

One thing I just noticed.... this may be kind of a pain in the ass, but you're clever enough to come up with a good way to fix the issue:

Right now, the outputted HH only looks pretty when posted here, in this forum (because of how you are using the shortcuts to point to the suit images). It would be nice if people could use the converter to post hands at other forums too - this could indirectly get new posters here, which would be really nice. To do this, I think you'd have to link to the actual image locations instead of the shortcuts to them, I think.

Thoughts?

[PShabi]

[de-coder]

I use the short form of the image that the editor uses. I don't actually build a link to image itself. This site uses : d : for diamonds (without the spaces), c for clubs and so on. Other sites do similar things - I notice that 2+2 uses the full word.

On this site use of direct html code within a post is prohibited so I can't link to the images directly even if I wanted to. That's a pretty common standard, so building a single conversion file that would work on multiple sites might not be possible.

What I've seen from other conversion tools is the ability to create a conversion for different forums, but I'm not sure I'm interested in the amount of work involved in all that. Each forum has it's own way of changing colours, making things bold, linking to images, etc.

What I could do is to make the converter more extensible so you could add sites by modifying the xslt and saving it under a different name (a different xslt file per forum). A list of check boxes could be generated, from the list of xslt files, and then the user could choose which forums to convert for. It should be possible to convert for multiple forums at once. Someone else would have to agree to take on the management of the xslt (I don't actually participate in other forums) - further any changes to the converted format would have to be duplicated for each forum, so it wouldn't be something you'd want to do until all the kinks are worked out of the format.

I think that's the best I'd be able to do for you.

[bunny]

Was a PokerStars SNG.

[de-coder]

The first line of the file should start with PokerStars Game otherwise the converter can't tell what kind of file it is. Send it to me if it doesn't work and I'll have a look.

[Talking Poker]

Copy and paste it into the converter. Then copy and paste the results. Tell us which position is your friend and we'll tell you how we think he played it.

[Talking Poker]

Here is how this hand look with the latest version of the converter - the limits still aren't being displayed, and I have no idea why the formatting for the spacing is being lost. Is that just on my end, for some reason? The hands you posted looked fine.

Full Tilt Cash game, $/$ Limit, 3 players <-- This was actually CAP NL too.
Hand History Converted by
SB: $73494.50
BB: $66498.50
Button: $54755
SB posts Small Blind $500
BB posts Big Blind $1000
Pre-flop: ($1500)
Button calls $1000 ($2500)
SB raises to $5000 ($7000)
BB folds
Button raises to $30000 ($36000) <-- Would be nice to show that betting is capped here, if possible.
SB calls $25000 ($61000)
Flop: 2 6 3 ($61000)
Turn: 2 6 3 5 ($61000)
River: 2 6 3 5 A ($61000)
SB shows K K
Button shows A 9
Button wins $60999 with a pair of Aces

[de-coder]

The formatting is ok when I do it... I just sent you a version that handles cap...

[Talking Poker]

Hmmmm.... I have no idea why the spacing isn't working for me. I'm headed out now but will look into it later.

Did you also fix the $/$ limits that have been showing up?

[de-coder]

Yep.