Frequently asked questions

What sites does megamaster support?

GGPoker, PokerStars, WPN, CoinPoker, 888poker, PartyPoker and iPoker. The importer is built around a per-site adapter, so supporting another site is a matter of adding an adapter for its export format, not a rearchitecture — each one reads whatever that site actually ships (most are .txt; iPoker's is session XML).

Does it read my screen, or need to run while I play?

No. megamaster only ever reads hand history files you export after the fact. Nothing runs during play, nothing overlays the client, nothing to get flagged for.

Does it track opponents?

It is built as a Hero leak-finder, not an opponent database. The Players view does let you alias the same opponent across the sites you play, for your own reviews — but there is no HUD, no shared pool of opponent data, and nothing about anyone leaves your machine.

Where does my data live?

In a local SQLite database on your own machine. Import, storage, and every query run locally.

Do you collect any data about me?

Two different answers, and the distinction is the whole point.

Your poker data: never. Not hands, hole cards, results, board cards, screen names, or anonymized aggregates of any of them. There is no code path in megamaster that uploads poker data. It isn't a setting you have to find — it doesn't exist.

Anonymous usage counts: yes, and you can switch them off. Which tabs get opened, how long an import took, whether a solve finished — feature names, counts and timings, tied to a random id that isn't derived from you or your machine. It's how rough edges get found without someone watching over your shoulder. It's written to a plain file you can read, view and delete from Settings, and turning it off turns it off completely — there's no "essential" carve-out that keeps reporting anyway.

Do I need an internet connection?

No, for the core workflow — import, browse, tag, replay all work fully offline.

How is this different from Hand2Note, PT4, or Holdem Manager?

Those are mature, general-purpose trackers with broad site support and years of feature surface. megamaster is narrower and more opinionated on purpose: it opens on a ranked list of where your play and your solver baseline disagree rather than on a stats grid, every range bar is conditioned on a real decision (never a bare population snapshot), turn and river get the same treatment as the flop, and strategy rules are user-authored against textures you define rather than a fixed vendor taxonomy. It's built from the coaching side of the table specifically, not adapted from a general tracker.

Does it use solver output?

Throughout, and from its own engine:

• The Lines map and the Preflop view compare every key node and every preflop grid against a library of spots solved by megamaster's own solver, megasolver — verified against PioSolver on identical trees (see the head-to-head) and solved to 0.1% of the pot for the library, with hand classes extracted on every street so composition, not just frequency, is compared.
• The Solve tab builds and solves your own trees with the same engine, and browses the library.
• Rules mined from the library carry a measured EV cost per simplification — what a single flop size actually gives up, or "≈ free" when it's below solve noise.
• If you own PioSolver, solving a real hand in it from the replayer still works, switched on from Settings. It is not required for anything above.

What poker variant does it support?

No-limit hold'em cash games.