There are many reasons that some serious players buy hand histories.
The motivation is always to make more money, but there are many ways to achieve that goal – In this article I will describe the most common ones.

If you are looking to buy poker hands yourself, I recommend that you use Hand HQ.
I have never had to wait more than 1 hour to get my hands delivered, and their support is very fast to respond to emails.

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Get “Better” Reads

A major benefit of buying hands is that you are able to see stats on almost all your opponents.
While stats don’t give you as good a read as if you had played against them and taken notes, they give you a general idea of how they play.

The biggest befit of this is that you don’t have to wait until you have played 20-30 hands at the table before you start adjusting to their playing style.
This means that your winrate for the first 15 minutes you play at each table will increase. 
While the edge you gain isn’t big, it applies to a lot of the hands you play, and will earn you quite a lot of money over time.

Better Table Selection

Holdem Manger and Pokertracker 3 both have a built in “table scanner” that let you create a list of tables at a poker room, and sort them based on the stats you have at the players, who are currently sitting at the table.

This means that if you buy hand histories and as a result has stats on 70-80% of the players at the site (who play the same stakes as you), you will be able to find some absolutely amazing tables.
If you are playing small or mid stakes at a large site, you will literally be guaranteed to get at least 4 tables where you are sitting in position on a huge fish.

Where to Buy Hand Histories

I buy hand histories from 2 sites.

The first one is Hand HQ. They cover the most sites of all the poker hand history sellers, and will send you the hands within 2 hours (usually faster). In addition their support is lightning fast to respond to emails.

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The other one is HH Dealer. They don’t cover quite as many rooms as Hand HQ, and usually take an extra hour or two to deliver the hands, however, they offer a subscription, which not only let you save money, but more importantly give you acce fresh poker hand histories every day.ss to Buy hand histories from HH Dealer