# Hand Playback

Hand Playback allows you to watch a hand or session of hands from your hand history using CD player style controls. Hand Playback can be useful for going over hands in your Hand History to evaluate and analyze your own actions or the actions of others. During playback, all known cards are shown face-up. As play proceeds a percentage is displayed by the cards of active players. This percentage represents the player's equity in the pot, or in other words the percentage of times they would win the pot on average if there were no future betting actions and all future board cards were rolled out. These percentages are either the result of a 10,000 trial simulation or the result of an an enumeration in the case where no more than 10,000 enumerations are needed. For this calculation unknown cards are assumed to all be equally likely.

### Invoking Hand Playback

Hand Playback can be invoked using the Hand Playback icon that you can find on windows that are part of the Player Statistics System. For example, from the Player Statistics System you can choose to watch a single selected hand from your hand history or you can watch all hands from one or more selected sessions.

It is important to note that Hand Playback can only be invoked if you are not currently playing at the same time. If you are in the middle of a hand, you will need to abort the hand in order to actually watch a hand. If you are outside of hand but sitting at a poker table as part of a ring game, tournament game, or online game, you will be silently removed from those games if you invoke Hand Playback. In the case of a tournament game, your tournament game will be automatically saved and marked as unfinished so that you can resume it after you are done with Hand Playback. In the case of a ring game, you will need to restart your ring game when you want to go back to it. In the case of an online game, you would be disconnected and you would have to manually reconnect after you are done with Hand Playback.

### Hand Playback Controls

The Hand Playback Controls are designed to be similar to the controls you would see on a CD player. The controls are as follows (in order from left to right):

Previous Hand Button
  Goes back to the start of the previous hand. This means if you are in the middle of a hand, clicking this button takes you to the start of the previous hand and not the start of the current hand. If you want to go to the start of the current hand, you have to click the Previous Hand Button followed by the Next Hand Button.
Step Button
  Steps you through a hand step by step.
Play/Pause Button
  Toggles you between play and pause mode. When in play mode, play automatically proceeds step by step using your preferred Action Throttles and Showdown Throttles (see Throttles for more information on the throttles themselves). When in pause mode, play does not proceed unless you press the Step Button or toggle this button back to play mode.
Next Hand Button
  Skips all remaining play in the current hand and takes you to the start of the next hand.