diff --git a/pyfpdb/HandHistoryConverter.py b/pyfpdb/HandHistoryConverter.py
index 6d653509..fb7311ab 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/HandHistoryConverter.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/HandHistoryConverter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #Copyright 2008 Carl Gherardi
 #This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -95,12 +96,14 @@ Otherwise, finish at eof.
         else:
             handsList = self.allHandsAsList()
             logging.info("Parsing %d hands" % len(handsList))
+            nBadHangs = 0
             for handText in handsList:
                 try:
                     self.processedHands.append(self.processHand(handText))
-                except Exception, e: # TODO: it's better to write something like HhcEception here
+                except Exception, e: # TODO: it's better to replace it with s-t like HhcEception
+                    nBadHangs += 1
                     logging.error("Caught exception while parsing hand: %s" % str(e))
-            numHands=  len(handsList)
+            numHands =  len(handsList) - nBadHangs
         endtime = time.time()
         print "read %d hands in %.3f seconds" % (numHands, endtime - starttime)
         if self.out_fh != sys.stdout: