A Dataset of Poker Hand Histories
<p>A collection of poker hand histories, covering 11 poker variants, in the poker hand history (PHH) format.</p> <p>To contribute, please create a pull request or an issue at the accompanying (condensed) <a href="https://github.com/uoftcprg/phh-dataset">GitHub repository</a>.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <ul> <li>341,172,750 heads-up/3-player fixed-limit and 278,842,225 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands (including duplicates) from the <a href="http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/">Annual Computer Poker Competition</a> (only publicly available data was included; 3-player Kuhn poker data from 2014 and 2015 were excluded). <ul> <li>2009: 52,534,430 fixed-limit (27,766,865 + 11,700,000 heads-up, 13,067,565 3-player), 3,600,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands.</li> <li>2010: 104,400,000 fixed-limit (87,000,000 heads-up, 17,400,000 3-player), 16,800,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands.</li> <li>2011: 77,790,000 fixed-limit (55,470,000 heads-up, 22,320,000 3-player), 16,200,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands.</li> <li>2012: 53,400,000 fixed-limit (50,400,000 heads-up, 3,000,000 3-player), 17,400,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands.</li> <li>2013: 27,951,000 fixed-limit (26,091,000 heads-up, 1,860,000 3-player), 19,836,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands.</li> <li>2014: 25,097,320 fixed-limit (19,337,320 heads-up, 5,760,000 3-player), 48,048,000 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands (24,024,000 unique, all duplicated with expected utility estimates).</li> <li>2016: 65,458,631 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands (16,965,000 unique, all duplicated for partitioned archiving and with expected utility estimates).</li> <li>2017: 91,499,594 heads-up no-limit hold'em hands (45,750,000 unique, almost all duplicated with expected utility estimates).</li> </ul> </li> <li>21,605,687 uncorrupted no-limit hold'em hands from anonymized hand history logs scraped from July 1st to July 23, 2009, uploaded by HandHQ, of varying stakes (from 25NL to 1000NL). <ul> <li>Absolute Poker: 1,270,658.</li> <li>Full Tilt Poker: 1,299,503.</li> <li>iPoker Network: 5,996,345.</li> <li>Ongame Network: 1,647,765.</li> <li>PokerStars: 3,092,698.</li> <li>PartyPoker: 8,298,718.</li> </ul> </li> <li>All 83 televised hands played in the final table of the 2023 World Series of Poker Event #43: $50,000 Poker Players Championship | Day 5</li> <li>All 10,000 hands played by Pluribus, published in the supplementary of Brown and Sandholm (2019).</li> <li>4 selections of historical poker hands.</li> <li>1 badugi hand from the Wikipedia page on badugi.</li> </ul>
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- 8
- Harmonization
- 4
- Access
- 16
- Reuse readiness
- 8
- Engagement
- 0
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