Poll for Online Players: Record-keeping

[ds914]

I've been a little surprised by the number of posts lately in which players obviously keep no record of their play. I thought I'd throw this poll out to see if it's as prevelant as it seems...

[jman220]

I know keeping records is important. But with the advent of pokertracker, what would you want ot keep a record of that isn't already there?

[emonrad87]

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I know keeping records is important. But with the advent of pokertracker, what would you want ot keep a record of that isn't already there?

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Bonuses, rakeback, poker-related expenditures, MTTs, non-hold'em games, live games....

[johnnymac]

Pokertracker: For online poker winnings
Excel files: For individual poker rooms (bonuses and wagering), and total earnings
Pokercharts.com: For all poker earnings inc B&M

Joe

[jrbick]

On top of PT I keep a spreadsheet with day-to-day stats from playing: time played, bankroll, bankroll -/+, overall # hands/session, hands/hr., # of hands overall, bonuses, RB... fwiw I condense my weekly stats for purposes of monitoring progression/digression [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] But mostly just to keep myself accountable for the # of hands I'm getting in every week.

[bigalt]

i use poker tracker to track the hands, and every time I deposit or cash out at a site I track where my money is moving around (and associated earnings/losses) using quicken.

[SoCalRugger]

PokerTracker gives me an estimate, but it doesn't account for everything since I play at some non-PT supported sites, and sometimes I miss blocks of hand histories from Absolute (or UltimateBet if I forget to start up the handgrabber). So my primary record is just a spreadsheet tracking all deposits to sites and withdrawals to Neteller. I also keep track of all rakeback payments and all the bonus money I've cleared. That's enough to give me an accurate count of actual poker winnings.

[obsidian]

I do the same thing. I track pretty much everything in Poker Tracker. I also track rakeback and bonus money. You can see it here:



The numbers about winnings on the left are directly from poker tracker. However, you can see about a $1000 difference between my total PT winnings, bonuses, and rakeback and what I have actually made which is located on the right. Only about $100 could be accounted towards tournament entries, so I don't think PT is entirely accurate when reporting winnings.

[SoCalRugger]

Wow. Are you just running good in July, or did you move up in limits? That's a pretty big jump from the other months.

[schuckmer]

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I do the same thing. I track pretty much everything in Poker Tracker. I also track rakeback and bonus money. You can see it here:



The numbers about winnings on the left are directly from poker tracker. However, you can see about a $1000 difference between my total PT winnings, bonuses, and rakeback and what I have actually made which is located on the right. Only about $100 could be accounted towards tournament entries, so I don't think PT is entirely accurate when reporting winnings.

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Love the look of your spreadsheet. Would you mind attaching a copy.

Thx.