Re: Ed Miller\'s Tax Article
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In pt you can export all of your sessions to an excel spread sheet. Then you can set up a plus column and a minus column and some "if statements" to put the results of each session in the appropiate column. The sum of the plus col is your gross winnings and the sum of the minus col is your gross losses. There are probably more elegant ways to do it, but this works.
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This is probably not the best way though, since you will overestimate your tax liability with this method. The exact definition of a "session" as it pertains to online gambling hasn't really been established, but I think it is reasonable to consider any given period of time that I am playing multiple tables to all be a part of one session. If I play for 4 hours on a total of 8 different tables (including table switches), take a 10 minute break to go to the restroom and grab a snack, then play 3 more hours at 7 different tables, that will show up as 15 sessions in PT, but I would tend to think of it as one 7-hour session. Because of that, I feel that it is reasonable to net my earnings during that session rather than reporting a few winning sessions and a few losing sessions for that time period. I could be very wrong, but I think it would be an easy stance to argue.
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