Got PokerTracker

[JDMcNugent7]

I'm sure this is a real stuid question - but - do u need to have Pokertracker up and running while ur playing for it to put the hand histories in ?

[MathBabe]

If the hand histories are getting saved on your hard drive (like pshabi's instructions above) then the next time you open up PokerTracker it will import the hand histories.

I always have it running so it will rate the people I'm playing against during the game.

[JDMcNugent7]

How do u have it auto rate players while it is going on?

[JDMcNugent7]

Also - how does PT handle tournies ??? Do i have to do something extra with tournament summaries or something ?

[nflchad]

Get some auto rate stats for your primary game, and put them on (PT guide will help a lot with this stuff btw), then as you auto import they are automatically rated.

I don't use PT for tourneys, I don't think they can be auto imported though, I'm pretty sure that you have to have them e-mailed to a POP3 adress and read automatically or you have to copy and paste the histories into a wordpad doc, which is very very tedious. Maybe someone else knows a better way.

[JDMcNugent7]

Where can I find autorate downloads and wutnot - does anybody have a good set of rules already defined that i could download.
I play shorthanded $1/2 NL if that makes a diff.

[PShabi]

search the pokertracker forums for "autorate rules."

[PShabi]

If you want to have it auto-importing them in real time, then yes.

If not. You can just go back later and use the "import" feature (as opposed to "auto-import"). Manually select the hand history file and it's imported in a few minutes.

The advantage to having the auto-import going is big for me as a multitabling limit player. I don't use PT in real time when I play NLHE, btw.