Why use the Poker Leakfinder?

Ever wondered if you are a winner or looser in poker - or just lucky or unlucky?
Sure you are better at poker than your friends even though you lost bitterly the last times you've played! Now you can prove it - just challenge them to share their hands here, share yours and you will find out who has the skills and who has the luck!
By detailed knowledge and insight into how you play differently than the best players you can become one of them
By seeing black on white what your weak spots are you can work on improving your skills one area at a time - in the right order

How to use the Poker Leakfinder

The Poker Leakfinder is based on collecting statistics from poker hand histories. In order to examine your own poker play you can send me an e-mail at support@pokertrainer.se with your hand histories in a ZIP file and I will process them and publish the result here.
Include the player name (and an alias if you want to be anonymous).
If you don't know were to find your hand histories, check your poker software. You can usually choose where the hand histories should be stored.

Current limitations

This is a Beta version of the service.

You need between 1000 - 100 000 played hands
It only supports full ring no limit cash Texas Holdem
Only Hand Histories in English are supported
The following sites are supported: Full Tilt Poker, Pokerstars, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet, Titan, CD Poker, Noble, PokerRoom, PacificPoker, Party Poker

If it becomes popular there are many more things that can be included in the analysis, both in the luck part and the skill part. It will also probably be automated (you install a program in your computer and the Poker Leakfinder is constantly up to date on your data).

Please send me an e-mail, or contact me at Facebook or Twitter if you have things you would like to see in the Poker Leakfinder.

How the optimal ranges were created

The main input into creating the optimal ranges has been the use of a Pokertracker database with 100 000 players who has played 5 million hands. The majority of the hands are from 1-2 $ NL at Full Tilt and 0,5-1 $ NL at Ultimate Bet.
I have made thorough analysis of how the best (biggest winners) on these levels are playing poker. The optimal ranges are based on the top-20 biggest winners with more than 30 000 played hands in the database.
Interestingly enough, when analysing the ranges (which are much more narrow than most players would expect) there were 3 players that stood out a bit.
When analysing their long term result over several hundred thousand hands they were found out to not be that big winners in the long run - and were exluded from the top-20 and replaced by 21-23 who were long term bigger winners. Who incidently fit perfectly within the narrow ranges!