PGT Poker High Roller Tournament Data 2015-2024

This is my very first time trying to create a database. I decided to use information that I've been recording for awhile now on the Poker High Stakes Tournament scene. One of the guarded secrets in poker is how much a player is in profit for his career. They'll gladly post x player has nine million in earnings, but its very possible that the player is also in the negative when you subtract buyins.

I figured out years ago, news reporting sites will gladly give you all the information on who played and busted a poker tournament in their chip counts report. If you click on chip counts and day 1 you can get the full list of players. https://www.pgt.com/live-reporting/p...nolimit-holdem So what I did was compaired the list of players who played an event with the list of players who also recived a payout, and then subtracted the buyin from their payout.

There were really two limitations with this. One is we don't know how many times a player rebought into an event. In most of these tournaments a player if they busted out can rebuy into the event. We know that 61 players were reported to have played the event, but also by the info in the table uptop that 89 players had played, so 28 had rebought in. This information makes since, when we look at other tournaments like Pot Limit Omaha events the rebuy counts are higher and games like Short Deck Hold'em which is known to have even higher rebuying. Problem is we don't know exactly who. The second issue is the rake. The rake in a poker tournament is a fee the casino takes out of the buyin to help pay for costs. PGT is unique in that if you show up on time when the event starts, you get to play rake fee. The problem there is we don't know who showed up early or late. Rake can have a huge effect on a persons win rate. Sadly we can't accurately calculate it.

Now one thing I did do was to give each player a #ID instead of using their real name. I didn't want to public shame anyway by putting out how much they lost. Again this is my first attempt at doing something like this. I would give WSOP data a go. PokerNews does a heck of a job compiling names and if you're a famous player your stack is getting reported on. The bounty info stinks and you still have the issues with reentry, but at least we have some solid rake data. Anyways have a look, so what you can come up with and what you'd change.