If you need “a lot” of hands I don’t think there are any way around paying a couple of hundred dollars for either hand histories or handgrabbers. If you play poker yourself, it may be cheaper to get the handgrabbers by signing up at a poker room.

I agree that 250$+ is a steep price to pay for such a small amount of hand histories. I suspect that it may have something to do with the amount of work the seller of the hand histories would have to do in order to put together the package of hands that you need.

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A word of caution – Be sure to get hands from a wide variety of stakes. I have wasted hours when coding AHK scripts because of small differences in the formatting between small stakes and medium stakes.

I’m developing a replayer and I’m trying to get sample of approximately 3000 handhistory files for every site/stake/game type the replayer will support.

I have contacted a few hh-vendors, however I think they charge too much (from $287 to $40).

So I am considering to mine them myself using idleminers products. I would like your advice on this or any other suggestions to obtain a handhistory package as mentioned for a fair price. (I am not able to advertise for any website.)

Thanks