[bisonbison]

Richard, sorry, sometimes I miss stuff.

Ahem:

1. Yeah, send me a link to your home forum and I can add a format.

2. At the moment, the converter rips out a bunch of info (cards and seats and stacks and names) and sends the actual betting action round by round in a standardized format to get chopped up and parsed.

This means that there's really no standard all-in-one hand history. However, I have been working on a generic hh format that would be relatively easy to parse, could handle any game currently available online and is almost painfully unambiguous in its presentation. It's not super-efficient like chess-histories, but if people adopted this or something like it, then it'd make everything very straightforward.

To wit:

--------- START UNIVERSAL HAND HISTORY ------------

Site: Party Poker
DateTime: 2004-07-01 13:01:01
Hand Number: 5678654355
Table Name: Gooberville

Game: Hold'em
Structure: Limit
Tourney: No
KillPot: No
Jackpot: No

Tourney Name: NA
Tourney Level: NA
Multitable Tourney: NA

Big Bet: $4
Small Bet: $2
Big Blind: $2
Small Blind: $1
Ante: $0

Number of Seats: NA
Number Of Players: 9
Dealer Position: 07
Hero Position: 05

Players:
Seat 01: Bob ($100.00)
Seat 02: James ($150.00)
Seat 04: Bill ($36.00)
Seat 05: Peter ($8.00)
Seat 06: Louis ($90.00)
Seat 07: Tom ($55.00)
Seat 08: Gary ($75.00)
Seat 09: Chip ($23.00)
Seat 10: Frank ($10.00)

Antes & Blinds:
Seat 08: posts Small Blind, $1.
Seat 09: posts Big Blind, $2.
Seat 06: posts Big Blind + Dead money, $3.

Round 1: (Pre-Flop)
Bet Level: $2.
Seat 10: folds.
Seat 01: raises $4.
Bet Level: $4.
Seat 02: calls $4.
Seat 04: folds.
Seat 05: raises $6.
Bet Level: $6.
Seat 06: folds.
Seat 07: folds.
Seat 08: folds.
Seat 09: calls $4.
Seat 01: calls $2.
Seat 02: calls $2.

Round 2: (Flop)
Board Cards: Kd, Tc, Qh
Bet Level: $0.
Seat 01: checks.
Seat 02: checks.
Seat 05: bets $2 (all-in).
Bet Level: $2.
Seat 09: folds.
Seat 01: raises $4.
Bet Level: $4.
Seat 02: calls $4.

Round 3: (Turn)
Board Card: (Kd, Tc, Qh) Jc
Bet Level: $0.
Seat 01: bets $4.
Bet Level: $4.
Seat 02: calls $4.

Round 4: (River)
Board Card: (Kd, Tc, Qh, Jc) 2s
Bet Level: $0.
Seat 01: checks.
Seat 02: checks.

Showdown:
Seat 01: shows Th, Td (Th, Td, Tc, Kd, Qh; 3 of a kind, tens).
Seat 02: mucks Jd, Qd (Qd, Qh, Jd, Jc, Kd; 2 pair, queens and jacks).
Seat 05: shows Ah, Kc (Ah, Kc, Qh, Jc, Tc; straight, ace high).

Known Hole Cards:
Seat 01: Th, Td
Seat 02: Jd, Qd
Seat 05: Ah, Kc

Pots & Rake:
Pot 1: $34 ($36 - $2 rake), Seats 01, 02, 05. Won by Seat 05.
Pot 2: $11 ($12 - $1 rake), Seats 01, 02. Won by Seat 01.
Total Rake: $3.

Results:
Seat 01: saw showdown. Won Pot 2. Net -$3.
Seat 02: saw showdown. Net -$14.
Seat 04: folded (Round 1). Net 0.
Seat 05: saw showdown. Won Pot 1. Net +$26.
Seat 06: folded (Round 1). Net -$3.
Seat 07: folded (Round 1). Net 0.
Seat 08: folded (Round 1). Net -$1.
Seat 09: folded (Round 2). Net -$6.
Seat 10: folded (Round 1). Net 0.

--------- END UNIVERSAL HAND HISTORY ------------