For those who keep track of their poker session wins and losses, do you include promotional payouts in your statistics? For example, if you won a $500 high hand promotion during a session, would you include that payout in your daily session record?

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You might find a thread or two n this topic in the search, as it has come up a few times. But generally speaking it has boiled down to this. If you want a stat that tells you the total amount of money you gained by going to the poker room (eg I made $xxx in 2017) then by all means include it. But if you want a stat that tries to reflect your success as a poker player (eg I made $x/hour playing poker) that can be compared to past or future winrates, then you probably should exclude them, as they could skew your winrate higher depending on how large the promos were.

if you played poker for 100 hours and hit a $100,000 bad beat, but otherwise won $200, Is it more useful to say your winrate was $2/hour or $1002/hour when using it to see if you are improving your game or not.

I never include those into my statistics, since your hourly win should be based only on how well you can play the game, not because you got lucky and won a bonus. But that's just my opinion.