[Soul Rebel]

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This one doesn't make sense:


So say a player plays ~5/10 NL 500,000 hands in year. Is he supposed to declare that he won $4,000,000 and lost $3,500,000? That is just rediculous. How the heck would you even keep track of all this? I mean yea you might have PT, but when you play on a different computer/different site?

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This is not difficult. You bust out a little program called Excel and record the results of every session on every site. I keep track of time played, beginning balance and ending balance for the session. Very simple.

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This is not a "very simple" thing to do. Do you even play poker? I am only declaring my net because it's the only thing that makes sense.

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What are you talking about? If I didn't play professionally, I doubt I would bother to go into this sort of detail, as it would not be necessary. My income is about 65% online cash games, 20% MTTs, and 15% rakeback. I have 3 excel tabs within one spreadsheet, one for each of these.

For the cash sheet, I have 9 columns. Date, Time session started, time session ended, total time played, site, game played, starting balance, ending balance, profit, and loss.
I record all of these for every site every session.

So for the last few columns, excel automatically does the math between the starting and ending balance, which equals the session's outcome. I move that number into either the profit or loss column. As a result, my profits are all in one column, and losses are in another. I sum each of the columns, and presto, I have my total wins and total losses.

MTTs are easier, you subtract buyins from total winnings. I record similarly detailed information for every MTT I play, with separate columns for buyins, rebuys, and cashes.

Lastly, my rakeback sheet has a column for every site I play on, and I simply record how much I made at each site for each month. At the end of the year I add all that together for my total rakeback.