Get Missing PokerStars Tournament Summaries

Ever get upset at your hand history tracking program, like PokerTracker or Holdem Manager, for not always retrieving the needed tournament summary files?  Did you then realize that it’s not your program’s fault at all?  Sure, we’ve all been there, but at the end of the day, we’ve all needed to request those missing tournament summaries so that our data can be properly processed.

Enter a brand new script for PokerStars.  The idea is that this script will go through your database and find out which tournaments require a summary file.  This file tells your hand history tracking program how the tournament finished and all of the other details you would normally have to enter in manually.  The problem often arises that the poker site doesn’t automatically generate the summary, so there are holes in your reporting.  However, going through each tournament you’ve played one by one to get a list of tournament numbers can take forever.

Poker Tracker 3 and Holdem Manager are hand history tracking utilities that are able to save data from every hand you play at sites like PokerStars.  The data is put into a massive PostgreSQL database and queries the data to provide reports like game play stats and results.  For tournament players, seeing how well you are doing and the results that follow are vital to your survival as a part time player.  For pro players, it’s an absolute necessity to know your ROI for playing sit and gos or multi-table tournaments.

Tournament summary data is a very important piece of the equation because it takes so much time out of the manual processing of the data.  Before this summary was available, a player would have to manually pull up their tournaments and enter their finish place and any money if they won.  Often, data would be recorded incorrectly, so players would have to go back and check everything or enter in blank data if none existed. For those who play dozens of tournaments every day, this is a painful exercise that takes away from time at the tables.

With a tournament summary, PokerTracker and Holdem Manager are able to import vital data about tournaments and insert it into your hand history database.  Instead of having to go through and enter the data of where you finished, how many players participated, and how much money you won, the summary document would hold all of that information.

The script is available for free in our Software Discussion forum and if you have any questions, our staff will be happy to answer.