PostHeaderIcon Poker And Keeping Records Part4

The items listed above should be the bare minimum of your records. How much more information you want to collect is practically unlimited and, of course, up to you. Theoretically, the more information you have with which to make decisions, the better your decisions should be. A few more items that might help you are:

12. Who else is at the table? If you have a few known rocks, or a few habitually bad players in the game, then you know that your results may not truly be representative of an average session for you. Making a note of that will make you feel better, especially if you had a loss that session.

13. Type of table. Was it a very loose table, or was it full of no-action rocks? You might want to create a rating system that you understand to help you quantify this quality. You could rate the table on a scale from 1 to 10 with 1 being the tightest table in the world, 5 being average, and 10 being the loosest game you've ever seen. Use whatever works for you.
14. How well did you play? Understand that this is not related to how much you actually won or lost. It has to do only with how well you played the game. Did you do your best? Did you go on tilt? How disciplined were you?

15. Secondary expenses. If you're going to have a hobby, you might as well know how much it's really costing you. Does it cost you anything to get to the game? Bus fare? Road tolls? If you play in the Chicago area, highway or bridge tolls might be a regular expense. Valet parking? Do you want to count these costs as poker related expenses? Maybe you'd like to keep track of them anyway, without counting them as expenses or losses.

16. Dealer tokes. You'd be amazed at how much this can add up to if you give it a little thought. If you play forty hours a week, dealer tips could be as much as $8,000 per year, depending on your style of play and what kind of tipper you are. Whatever they add up to, I strongly recommend that you keep track of them. Apart from being a losing player, they're the single biggest drain on your overall bottom line.

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