Replayer doesn't work when I finish 1st

[shivan]

I'm able to replay all my tournaments fine as long as I don't finish in 1st place, when I try to replay tournaments where I finish first I get the message, "Old hands detected in the tournament..."
I play 9 player sit-n-go's at Pokerstars.

[PokerOffice Support]

Please try to import a tournament history (from a tournament you won) manually by going to File -> Import Hands History.

Does it work to replay the tournament after that?

[shivan]

I went to the "import hand history" screen and it gave me the options of "load hand history from file", I used the "browse" feature but I didn't see any files with hand histories there. It also gave an option of "check pop3 email" but I don't use pop3 type email. Do you have any suggestions on how to further pursue this solution, or maybe a different solution? Thanks

[PokerOffice Support]

Hmm, that's strange. Can you find all your hand histories if you go to your PokerStars folder -> HandHistory?

[Euphorica]

Whenever I try to replay a tournament I won I get:

Not a valid tournament.
Old hands detected in the tournament!

I havent had any old files as I only have been using PO 2.*

Any suggestions?

cheers
Jesper

[theperni]

Jesper, you have selected to save your hand histories to your hard drive?

[AIX2006]

... I think I found the basic cause.

I had noticed exactly the same problem - I couldn't open tournaments where I finished first (but only after August 23, see below...). Tournaments I finished 2nd, 3rd, ... didn't have that problem. I play 6 player sngs at Pokerstars.

Over the last two years it was not the first time I noticed the 'old hands' message, so I tried what I (successfully) used to do in a situation like this - the manual import function vs. 'load hand history from file'. But after the import the systems tells me 'Successfully imported [0] new hand histories of [0]'. The tournament still can't be opened. After that I deleted the specific tournament and tried to import the data again. Same outcome...

Next I created a new database and imported this tournament. After selecting my screen name there is data displayed in the 'overview' section, but not in the tournament section. It looks like only the tournaments 'header' is imported. Strange... Then I cleared the database and imported a (today's ) tournament where I finished 2nd. Same problem.

Then I compared the textfiles of August 23 and August 30:

PokerStars Game #19832077750: Tournament #103821167, $6.00+$0.60 Hold'em No Limit
- Level I (10/20) - 2008/08/23 - 08:37:17 (ET)
PokerStars Game #20144076672: Tournament #106214762, $6.00+$0.60 Hold'em No Limit
- Level I (10/20) - 2008/09/04 15:03:08 ET

There's a visible difference in the format of date and time. I now substituted the new format with the old format and everything works fine again... Now I'm looking forward to a patch.

Glad I could help, Steve

[defadmin]

Steve, you're correct about the changed hand history format. A fix for this, and a few other things will be out this week.