How to Export Your GGPoker Hand History from PokerCraft (2026 Guide)

Every hand you play on GGPoker is stored for you, and the site will hand the whole record over on request. If you want to review your own play in any study tool, this export is where everything starts. Here is the full process, plus the two extra exports most players do not know exist.

Step by step

Open PokerCraft. In the GGPoker client, click your avatar and choose PokerCraft, the built-in results tracker.
Go to the game section you want. Hold'em, Omaha and tournaments each keep their own history pages.
Find the export icon. On the game history page look for the download arrow. Pick the date range you want to export.
Request the export. GGPoker prepares the files and sends them to the e-mail address on your account. Larger ranges can take a while to arrive, so do not worry if it is not instant.
Download the attachments. The mail contains plain .txt files, one per game type and period, with every hand written out in full.

The files are yours. They contain your hole cards, every action at the table and the results, written in a standard text format that study software can read.

The two exports most players miss

Tournament summaries

Hand histories from tournaments record the play, but not the money: buy-ins, prizes and finishing positions live in a separate export. In PokerCraft's tournament section you can request a summary export the same way. If you ever want an honest picture of your tournament ROI, you need these files, not just the hands.

Cashier statement

Your cashier history covers everything the game exports cannot see: deposits, withdrawals, rewards, insurance and transfers. It is the only way to reconcile what the tables say with what your balance actually did.

What to do with the files

Any serious study tool reads these exports. Desktop trackers such as PokerTracker or Hold'em Manager import them into a local database on Windows. Our own tool, PokerInsights, reads the same files in your browser: you drop the .txt files in, every hand is graded, and the spots that need work are collected for you, including the tournament summaries and the cashier statement.

Whichever tool you choose, one habit matters more than the software: export regularly. A month of hands reviewed while you still remember the sessions beats a year of hands reviewed never.

Troubleshooting

The mail never arrives. Check the spam folder first, then confirm the e-mail address on your GG account. Very large ranges sometimes need to be split into smaller ones.
The files look like gibberish. They are plain text; open them with any text editor. If a tool refuses them, make sure you did not accidentally export summaries where it expects hands, or the other way around.
Some hands seem missing. GG exports the hands you actually played to showdown or folded; it does not include observed hands from tables you watched.

GGPoker's interface changes from time to time, so button placement may shift, but the flow (PokerCraft, pick a range, receive the files by mail) has been stable for years.