After doing some searching I found
www.pokercharts.com, so far it seems to be good for online tracking of your poker wins and losses. I'd like to hear what you guys have to say about this site if you have used it or if you know of something similar and possible better.
I have been playing at a local poker club for the past few weeks and with the exception of the first night there, I have cashed out every night with either tournament or 1/2 NL winnings. I don't bring more than $200 with me ($30+15[add-on] for tournament + $80-100 for cash game if I lose the tournament or I take what ever I won from the tournament to the cash game). They only have 1-2NL and usually have 1-2 full tables, usually just one though. One night I had to re-buy 3x for a total of $260, other than that one $80-100 buy in is more than enough.
I am trying to keep a good record of everything and I'd like to do it as if it were a business with Cost (or Buy-Ins), Wins (Profit), Losses, & Expenses . With pokercharts, I noticed that when it says, "I am ahead $XXX.XX for X days", it does not calculate my EXPENSES. If given the option I'd like it to say, "I have $xxx.xx in my bankroll". So I guess my question is, how can I do this properly. Of course I want to know how much I'm ahead, but I really want to know how much I have (and not have to actually count my cash, but to have the number and be able to verify it).
Obviously if I take the number I am ahead, say $100 and subtract what ever my expenses are, say $15, my profit would be $85 for that session. But if I fill everything out on their forms like this, "Buy-In: $100 / Cashout: $200 / Expenses: $15" it would still say "I'm ahead $100.00" but that's not whats in my bankroll, my bankroll would be $185. I am ahead $100.00 and that's great to know but I'd also like to see you know, how much in buy-ins am I spending to be ahead X amount or how much in losses I have or a certain period of time etc. I like the format they have on their site, it also gives you really good statistics, but I'm thinking maybe an excel spreadsheet might give me what I need. Something along the lines of,
Buy-In: $100
Cash O: $200
Expenses: $15
Profit: $85
Total BR: $185
"I spent a hundo to make a hundo minus $15 for gas so I walked away with $85 in profit bringing my bankroll to $185 total.
I've just been deducting my expenses from my cashout amount so that when it says I'm ahead X amount, that it is actually my bankroll amount BUT it pretty sure that will affect my win rate %, roi %, avg % of this and that etc.
I was barely able to file my own taxes online this year, so If this confuses anybody, sorry, and yes I know cocaine is one hellava drug and somebody will reply to this post with this paragraph in quotes and say, rofl, haha, lol, fish, or some other forum troll comment.
But, for playing a soft 1-2NL cash game or a small 1-2-sometimes 3 table tournament for $45 where 1st takes $270 with 3-6man tables (6 because sometimes people show up late and they can won't have to break a table, they can just sit down) and I have won 1st place 4 out of 6 tournaments that I have played + with a $80-100 buy-in with OUT re-buying I'm leaving there every night with about $300 profit in my pocket after paying myself back for my tournament/cash buy-ins, its easy money and I need to figure out how to keep track of it so I don't get ahead of myself or decide to play above my limits elsewhere.
I went there once with $40 to check this place out and lost. I came back two days later with $60, enough to play a tournament and cover my gas. Right now, I have $1800 cash. I've only used pokercharts for the past 2 days worth of sessions and these are some of my stats:
Win Rate:$29.09/hr
Avg. Win Rate:$57.92/hr
Win Rate Std:$54.13/hr
Time played:13h 45m (includes tournament/cash)
Avg. Session: 3h 26m
ROI:58.82%
(of these pokerchart sessions, i played 5h @ cash and gave it all back except what i bought in for, other sessions just had slow nights with hardly any action or money on the table, and these stats are with my expenses/withdrawals deducted from my cashout amount to show me my exact bankroll number so these rates should be a little higher, i make $10/h at my day job and to see a avg win rate over $50 over the past 2 days knowing i've made what I make in a 40h work week in less than 1/2 that time has me a little surprised... and i want to keep it that way.)
Last edited by dman786; 05-10-2010 at 02:43 AM.