charlestudor
commented
4 months ago Hey Rudy!
Thanks for the detailed description of the problem. I think I would be in favour of skipping the hand entirely if there is a 7-2 bounty hand. As you said, this isn't a standard poker / pokerstars feature, so anything we do to work it into the log is going to be a hack of some kind, and if a player wants to look back at a historical hand it would probably look very strange / hard to reason about what actually happened without some sort of marker indicating this was a special 7-2 hand.
On the point about PT4 complaining about the stack sizes changing, that's an interesting one - I wasn't aware if it always considers every hand in isolation, or if it takes a more holistic view of an entire "game". Either way I guess what we could do is manually snip out the 7-2 hand and upload it, and see if it complains or is tolerant to the missing hand.
jadenstock
rudyroggio
Description
I recently encountered a PokerNow log file that includes a 7-2 bounty, which is of course not implemented in this repository yet as it is a new feature. The log format for the 7-2 bounty is as follows:
I'm unsure how to structure the parsing logic to handle this 7-2 bounty, as it's not a standard feature in PokerStars, so I'm unsure how to stich together a fix for the log files? As it stands, the current program will crash throwing a
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '48 from the 7-2 bounty'exception.Attachments
I've attached an example log file that includes the 7-2 bounty in its entirety:
poker_now_log_pglbNl8R6yjeJY0EFBIXSCztr.csv
Ideas
The primary issue is how to issue an appropriate log file that won't throw various errors out. One VERY BAD yet plausible fix is to simply turn every 72o bounty hand into a pre-flop bomb pot hand, but at that point, it may not even be worth issuing that fix, and instead it may seem apt to simply...remove 72 hands from the history conversion altogether? That is, if collected bounty, skip hand... That may yet be the most sensible approach, since 72 hands ought to be outliers in the range construction of any given player, and therefore not worth to include in tracking databases.
One issue, if we decide to skip 72o hands, is that PT4 will probably issue various quibbles, because from hand X to hand X+2, the stack sizes of everyone else went from Y to Y+eps, but that, too, may be negligible? I'm open to your ideas.