Managing Duplicates

[DylanOlive]

When PT4 is importing and checking hand histories (HHs) for duplicates (already read and processed), is PT4 checking only the Tournament# and/or Hand#? That makes sense.

I'm curious about the situation I am encountering where 2 separate players have shared HHs with me and in the course of 100,000s of hands they have played against each other. Say 10,000 hands have these two players at the table. So I have two HHs for the same hand, but from the perspectives of two different players. If PT4 processes the hand from HH of Player1, will it treat same hand in the HH of Player2 as a duplicate when I import Player2's HHs?

I think this is blocking me from importing these 10,000 hands for Player2.

[Flag_Hippo]

As far as I know PokerTracker 4 checks the hand number, along with the poker site, and if any hands in the database already exist based on that criteria then they will be skipped during an import therefore if you want to review all of the second players hole cards then the easiest thing to do would be to import those hands into a separate database.

[DylanOlive]

That's very helpful. Just to confirm, duplicates are specific to a given database. If I create a new database, PT4 will create a duplicates file from scratch for that specific database.

[Flag_Hippo]

There isn't a "duplicates file" but if you create a new database all the hands of 'Player 2' will import since none of the hands of 'Player 1' exist there.