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          Poker Academy Hand History Converter
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Coded by Matthew Hall (aka Caeddyn)
Send comments to support@caeddyn.com

Poker Academy Converter transforms a Poker Academy hand history file to a PartyPoker hard drive one.

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Beginners Guide to Using PAConverter:

1. Select the Poker Academy log file you wish to convert by clicking the top "Browse" button. If this is the first time you run the program, it should have already located the correct log file for you. So this step may be optional.

2. Select the location and name of the PartyPoker hand history file you want to output by clicking its "Browse" button. The default directory is your desktop.

3. Pick the options you'd like to use. All of them are explained in detail later in this document.

4. Click the "Convert" button. It may take a minute for the program to process and save the hand histories if you've run a lot of simulations. After the program is finished, it'll pop up a message box stating how many hands were converted and if there were any errors. The error log is saved to "errorLog.txt" in your Poker Academy Converter directory.

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All the settings chosen will be saved once you exit the program. Here's a list of what each of them does:

**Hand Range: All hands**
Outputs all of the hands to the PartyPoker hand history file.

**Hand Range: First <blank> hands**
The program will save the number of hands specified starting from the hand with the lowest "Game #".

**Hand Range: Last <blank> hands**
Same as above, except it saves the last <blank> hands.

**Hand Range: Hands between <blank> and <blank>**
If this is selected, the hands within the range specified will be saved to disk. This option goes by the "Game #" and does not depend on how many hands are in the log file. So if you pick "Hands between 5130 and 5132", the hands with the Game #5130, #5131, and #5132 will be saved, even if there are only 40 hands in the log file.


**File Splitting: One big file**
All the hands will be saved in the PartyPoker hand history file you specify.

**File Splitting: Split hands between <blank> files**
PAConverter will try to spread the hands equally between the number of files you specify with this option. They all will be saved with the same name, except each will have a number appended on the end.

**File Splitting: Save <blank> hands per file**
Once a file reaches the number of hands specified, the program will create a new file and start saving into it. Again, it'll append a number at the end of each filename.


**Fix hands with missing small blinds**
When the player in the big blind loses all of his chips, on the next hand there won't be a small blind. Since there's always a small blind on PartyPoker, PokerTracker will think the hand is corrupt and skip over that hand. Thus, this option remedies that problem by making the button post the small blind. It'll however show that the button lost that money, but in most cases this is better than just skipping the hand entirely.

**Make short handed tables 6-max**
If there's 6 or fewer players at the table, the hand will show up as 6-max.

**Real money**
Save the hands as if they were played with real money as opposed to play money.

**Save everyone's hole cards**
This will show everyone's cards as they are dealt out. So even if an opponent folds preflop, his hole cards will be still visible in the hand history. However, the hand histories will not follow PartyPoker's format exactly. PokerTracker doesn't have a problem with this deviation, but some other utilities might.

**Muck losing/uncalled hands**
With this turned off, everyone will flip up their hand if it reaches the showdown. Likewise when you have this turned on, everyone will play as if they have "Muck Losing/Uncalled Hands" option on at PartyPoker. If you're using PokerTracker's hand replayer, you won't see a noticeable difference unless everyone folds.


**Poker Academy Log Input**
This is the file that the PAConverter converts. If it says, "No file specified" in the box, you must select a file by clicking the "Browse" button to the right.

**Party Poker HH Output**
The hand history file specified here will be created or overwritten once you click the "Convert" button. Clicking the "Browse" button to the right will change the file selected.

