Monk,

I use pretty much the same setup as you do, using an excel spread sheet to track my play, what I have been doing is using poker tracker to track all my sessions while I play, than go back and input the data into my excel spreadsheet, that way I dont have to try to get all my information while I am seaching for tables.

I play omaha and O8 mostly, along with some NL games on sites that pokertracker is a hassle to work with. So PT is little use to me except for empire and party.

Monk
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FYI, you can also use your excel spreadsheet and save as a webpage. it then makes all charts a GIF, which are incredibly compact. That is pretty much what I do for my bankroll page. (link of which is located in my bankroll message in this fourm)

Here are the screenshots of Monk's Excel spreadheets that he sent me.

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Monk, youve played over 80 hours in Jan already?

Nice charts! Very informative , clean and easy to look at.

If my game wasn't so limited right now on one aspect..i would look at doing something simlar.

Iceman - the charts here are just dummies. I don't play all the games I have in my ringgame or SnG sections (I rarely play limit O8 outside of UB, and never higher than 5/10, and I almost never play PLO below the 100 buyins). I just made up some figures. My real figures for the month would not be dissimilar, just I've only made $450 so far. The "80 hours" figure would be TABLE hours and NOT real hours; playing 4 tables, I could accomplish that figure in 20 hours which would not be impossible 4 days into the month. Therefore, the hourly rate figure is an hourly rate PER TABLE; about £5 is a little shy of $10 or so, so 4-tabling I'd be making somewhere between $35 and $40 an hour at these figures. In reality, I think I've played something nearer 15 "real" hours in January so far, with my hourly rate (total) about $25, thanks in part to a poor night last night and a bad run on the empire SnGs.

Kenny, thanks for the compliments. If you need any help setting something up drop me a line. I think something like this would be very useful for omaha players who don't have something like PT to track their winnings, but it has a lot of use for SnG stats and even holdem ringgames too.

So far, the biggest problem I've had has been keeping individual track of what I'm doing in each game in each session. For instance, last night I played at Stars, 3-5 tables open at once, changing them fairly regularly, for about 3 hours. In that time I played PLO8 100 and 200, NLO8 200, PLO50, 100 and 200, depending on what was good at the time, as well as making rebuys when my stack got below about 90%. I think in future the way I'll log these stats will be to have a notepad with several columns: Table name, Site, Limit/level (i.e. PLO100 etc), time in, time out, money put in, money cashed out. It shouldnt take more than a few seconds to fill in each one when something happens.

Monk
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Why so technical?

All I do to track but-ins and reloading is divide a piece of paper by how many tables then just write everytime I reload with how much going down the page...

You boys and your toys?

If you do make up some real cool excel spread sheet win tracker thing send me a copy (be your best mate) as I have got one but its crappy and unsophisticated.

Rich

Why so technical.... Well, because I want to track my results at different limits, games and websites and thus find out how i'm doing at each one, what my winrate is, how i'm doing long-term, how much i've won in the year at each etc. to allow me to be a bit smarter in my table selection (basically, to encourage me to play at my best tables more often by putting the evidence in front of me in black and white - pluggin a little leak of mine). I know fine well already I rock at PLO and suck at pretty much everything else so I guess this will just help me figure that out for sure.

I think it also appeals to my inner geek.

Monk
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