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Hey guys,

I've been playing poker for quite some time now. I have hands dating back to 2007, and even though it's a cheap laugh to replay hands from 'back in the day' that are played in all the wrong ways, I have no real use for these hands. My PC is old and struggles to handle the data at this point. So my question to you is, when do you reckon it's a good idea to make a new database or purge hands? I guess another way of asking is; do you just keep one big database with millions of hands, or do you have some kind of 'partitioning' system?

There's obviously no right answer here, but I'm interested in your opinions.

I wouldn't bother displaying hands from more than 9-12 months ago on the HUD, so from that perspective you don't need to retain older hands other than for study. I would keep all HH on a backup HD simply so that you can track your results since day X and create a new DB every time you experienced slowdown with your current one, importing the past 6 months or so with it.

I can definitely see your logic, and I actually only display hands from 6 months ago. As I know from my own development, a player can change a lot over 6 months. Thanks for you're suggestion, and thanks for Yin & Yang, great series