As you are all well aware of by this point, PokerTableRatings will no longer sell Poker Stars hand-histories. Our users our asking for our stance so here it is. We firmly believe that the advantage hand-histories offer is fair and discuss this in detail in our ‘Ethical Datamining‘ blog post. There are many misconceptions on how we get these hand-histories, but in no-way to we ‘hack’ Poker Star’s servers. We simply observe and record the data. Online poker will be a much more dangerous place without 3rd parties having the ability to observe hand-histories and we...

In our last blog post, The Ethics of Datamining Poker Sites, Part One (Common Complaints), we outlined some common arguments given against the practice of datamining poker sites and gave counter-arguments from our personal viewpoint on the situation. In part two of this two part series, we are going to talk about the positive effects that poker data mining has on the Internet Poker community. Som what does data mining give to poker players and the community? By having millions of hand histories daily, data mining sites and the community can analyze poker games on a huge scale looking for...

We’ve launched our new affiliate system, which upgrades our old one in many key areas: Referrer tracking – much more accurate tracking for our affiliates, ensuring all their referred customers/sales are credited appropriately Custom links – the ability to do custom links with an SEO-friendly URL structure, leading to higher conversion rates and easier ways to split test your advertising campaigns New banners – higher-visibility banners, a large selection, and out with the old stuff Reporting tools – far easier to see how many sales you’ve done in a given...

hhSmithy is proud to offer iPoker hand histories for purchase. iPoker plays host to many big-time sites, such as: Tain Poker bet365 Poker Paddy Power Poker Titan Poker Golden Palace Poker And many, many others! We’re also working on some great iPoker-related deals with some partners, so keep an eye out for...

hhSmithy offers a subscription-based model that is far more cost-effective than the standard bulk hand history model that nearly all of our competitors use. You’ve undoubtedly seen this promotional graphic on our home page:   Here are some other reasons why our model is the clear winner: You get unlimited access to hand histories up to the level you select. For example: If you pick the Small Stakes package for 3 months, you get unlimited access up to and including $1-2 for a given game type. Other sites restrict you to specific seat types – not hhSmithy! You could easily...

We’ve got some exciting updates today as you can probably see! hhSmithy has been completely re-designed.  We have taken into consideration all of the great feedback we got in the recent survey: Almost all of you thought that coverage and pricing were the most important factors in a hand history site. There were lots of feature requests to check for new downloads every time instead of scheduling. There were a lot of requests for an email notification feature. Many of you requested a bulk hand history service. Coverage graphs have been slow and error prone. The website could have...