Do you guys keep record of your live play?...
 

If so, what do you keep track of, and what do you use to keep track of it (like a note book or journal)?

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Excel spreadsheet.

I carry a small wire-bound notebook into the poker room and hide it in a pocket so I can write down details in the restroom or otherwise away from sight of my opponents.

I'm also a huge nerd, so I track tokes and drink tips. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Yes I use the free Poker Analyst at http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-analyst/overview/ to record all my live playing sessions. Simple stuff but effective to see how I'm doing for the year.

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Yes. Spreadsheet.

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I do.

I keep a written record on a note card in my 'poker wallet' that when it fills up gets transferred to an Excel spredsheet
For each location and each limit I have a distinct 'sheet' within the more encompassing spreadsheet. On each of those I keep track of the following info for each session:

Date/Time start
Date/Time end
Buy-in
Cash-out
Size of the big bet if cash game
Place finished in tourney if a tourney

From that info I calculate for each session:
total hours played
total cash won/lost
# big bets won/lost
# big bets won/lost per hour
Average big bets won/lost per hour

I keep a running total for the each game (location/limit) of all this info as well.

Finally on a separate 'sheet' I total everything up to get:

total buy-ins
total cash-outs
net winnings
total hours played
%/hr

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Thank you guys for the info.

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Good stuff [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Excel spreadsheet.

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*gasp* I lied. Such is Microsoft's mindshare in the spreadsheet market....

I actually use OpenOffice, which is free and capable of saving in XLS format.

Re: Do you guys keep record of your live play?...
 

I use StatKing. Excel does everything SK does, so that's totally viable. You could use the OpenOffice spreadsheet program if you don't have Excel.

Regards,

T

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I'm also a huge nerd, so I track tokes and drink tips. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Why not the cost of gas to get to and from the cardroom? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

b

Re: Do you guys keep record of your live play?...
 

I use Statking and I like it. I should have paid more attention in school so the fact that Statking figures out my standard deviation and provides lots of other information is a big help.

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I use Poker Journal for Palm - it is easy to enter data, and easy when changing games/tables during a session. It has distince sections for "Live" and "Tourney"....

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I use Poker Analyst at Cardplayer as well. I've found it to be pretty simple and tracks what I want to track.

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I think its worth using StatKing just so you can see an animated photo of DS (or MM) making fun of your winrate.

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That sounds cool. I just make a mental note and put it in my big excel thingy when I get home. I don't play live often, so this has worked fine.

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Check Your Bets is also pretty easy and free, and is ok for live sessions. Since I can't use PT on my mac, i also use it for my online stuff, but it doesn't give me any information about my hands or anything, just money, game, BB/hour, etc.

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basic stuff like hours played, buy-in, cash out, win-rate. also misc. stuff about the game and any particularly interesting hands.

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Excel spreadsheet.



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I used to do this, until I broke my old computer in a drunkin rage, I haven't kept records since then, I probably should though.

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Uh, isn't it absolutely necessary to keep records for the IRS if you are required to file a tax return/pay taxes under US law??