Turn Your HM3 Database
Into an Improvement Plan
HM3 already stores the sessions. The missing piece is a short list of decisions that deserve the next block of study.
HM3 holds the history. The review names the next study block.
REQUEST EARLY ACCESS · ALPHA IN PREPARATION
REQUEST EARLY ACCESS · ALPHA IN PREPARATION
POST-SESSION ONLY · NO REAL-TIME ASSISTANCE
HM3 collects the data — what should you work on?
The bottleneck is not missing history. Holdem Manager 3 already stores sessions, reports, and historical hands. The hard part is deciding which part of that history deserves the next block of study.
- HISTORICAL HANDSThe decisions already played.
- SESSIONSPlay over time, not one interesting pot.
- REPORTSA way to see frequencies and trends.
- STATISTICAL SIGNALSUseful places to start looking.
Those objects stay useful. Attention is the missing layer — not a replacement tracker.
From reports to decisions
A report or statistical signal is useful because it shows where to investigate. The next useful object is a defined spot, then the hands behind the number.
- REPORT / STAT SIGNAL
- DEFINED SPOT
- HANDS BEHIND THE NUMBER
- REPEATING DECISION PATTERN
- EVIDENCE + CONFIDENCE
- STUDY PRIORITY
This path is explanatory. It is not a live progress bar and it is not a verdict from the first report tab.
Analyze historical hands
Aggregate reports show where to look. Historical hands show the decisions that built the number. The review inspects those decisions in a defined family.
- POSITION
- STREET
- POT TYPE
- ACTION CONTEXT
- DECISION FAMILY
- OPPORTUNITIES
The dimensions are product language for a defined spot. They are not a recreation of HM3 report fields.
Prioritize study by impact
Not every visible deviation deserves study time. Priority may consider recurrence, opportunity count, estimated impact, confidence, and whether the pattern is trainable.
CANDIDATE A
Enough evidence? Material? Trainable?
PRIORITY
CANDIDATE B
Low materiality
NO ACTION
CANDIDATE C
Sample too thin
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
These are product states — not findings from an HM3 customer database.
This is not a single frozen equation. Frequency is one input, not the ranking.
How Performance Coach complements HM3
HM3 and PPC answer different questions. HM3 remains the tracker. PPC is the post-session review layer.
HM3 TRACKER / ANALYSIS ROLE
- Database and historical hands
- Reports and filters
- Leak Explorer statistical comparisons and severity
- Hand-level drill-down
PPC REVIEW ROLE
- Structured decision-family evidence
- Explicit finding-level confidence
- Review-level prioritization
- What not to work on
- Training target
- Re-measurement of the same pattern
Keep HM3. Add a review that organizes evidence around a defined decision family — what deserves attention, why, how confident the sample is, and what to train next.
Example HM3 review
There is no live HM3 result on this page. What follows is the review structure designed for HM3 exports — not a fabricated finding list.
NOT A LIVE RESULT
- HM3 EXPORT
- CANDIDATE SIGNALS
- DECISION-FAMILY REVIEW
- OUTPUT PACKAGE
YOUR REVIEW WILL INCLUDE
- 3–5 prioritized decision leaks
- Evidence and confidence for every finding
- Representative hands
- What not to work on
- A focused training plan
- Re-measurement after new hands
The current sample report shows the report object and evidence model using a separate illustrative PokerTracker source dataset.
Future direct HM3 integration
HM3 supports third-party app integration through its MVS API. Poker Performance Coach does not currently use that integration path. The current PPC workflow uses exports and hand histories.
NOT LIVE
CURRENT: EXPORT-BASED
- Poker Performance Coach does not currently connect directly to HM3.
- HM3 documents an MVS API for third-party apps, but PPC does not currently use that integration path.
- No PPC launch date for direct HM3 integration is committed.
Export the data you already have. Direct integration is a future possibility, not a live PPC capability.
Holdem Manager stays the tracker. Export the data you already have.
You do not need to move or replace your HM3 database.
- 01
Open Holdem Manager 3.
- 02
Select the player and database you want reviewed.
- 03
Export the relevant hand-history or report data. Leak Explorer can stay as the statistical starting point.
- 04
Save the export locally.
- 05
Return here and select the file.
The current Analyze preview only checks whether the selected file type looks supported. It does not parse or analyze the file yet. The selected file stays on this device during the current preview. Full automated analysis is not live.
Full database analysis is not live yet. We're opening early access to players with real PT4, HM3 and hand-history databases.
Early users may be asked to share anonymized exports manually while the automated analyzer is being built.
See how Leak Explorer signals become decision leaks
Leak Explorer already ranks and drills into leak signals. The next question is which decision families deserve a study block.
POKER DATABASE REVIEWSee the broader review object
What a professional database review is designed to return.
SAMPLE REPORTSee the current illustrative sample report
A separate PokerTracker-source example of priority, evidence, and refusal states.
METHODOLOGYSee how evidence is required
Confidence, sources of truth, and why insufficient evidence is valid.
Keep HM3.
Name the next study block.
Your tracker already has the sessions. The useful next object is a short list of decisions worth training.
Post-session analysis only. No real-time assistance.