Hi, Apologies in advance, I know virtually nothing about programming but will be seeking the services of a programmer in the near future. I will require someone to program, or create a program that can convert millions of online poker hands that were played in a poker bot AI competition into a format that can be read by the 2 major poker hand tracking programs "Holdem Manager 2 and Pokertracker 4) This will allow the user to replay the competition hands played by AI and review them in HM2 or PT4. The logs, code etc are all publicly available at http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/ Essentially its an annual competition where people submit their AI poker bots to play against each other. These hands can be interesting to review. My question is, what exactly am i asking for when I put in a job request? I dont know what kind of programming it is etc when I request a programmer. Once again, im very sorry for this post and I would be extremely grateful if someone can point me in the right direction.
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