Templet for keeping records?

Does anyone have a good templet or program for maintaining a record of your wins, losses, buy-in, number of players etc, type of tourney, etc?

How do you guys keep up with all this for IRS purposes etc? Or, do you or should you?

It would be nice to have a program that would capture all your results similar to what FullTilt provides, but longer lasting than a week or two. Or, does FullTilt keep up with this for you on an annual basis? Anybody know?

All advice is welcomed, Wally

www.pokertracker.com works nicely.

Steve, this PT seems to do hand analysis, game analysis etc, but what I need is something to track tournaments and ring game Buy-ins, wins and losses etc and ROI without having to manually write the stuff down and compute.

PT looks great, but I don't see where it does what I want...thanks for the suggestion...may still get PT.

Wally

I usually just use a good ol' fashion excel spreadsheet. Its not as a fancy as a lot of other programs, but it works for me. As for a template - I don't really have one, but the structure of the spreadsheet is pretty set and dry... Date, Tournament #/Type, Buy-In, Finish out of X (Players), Pay-out, Net Gain/Loss, ROI, Running ROI. For Cash games its Date, Table/Game-type, X Handed, Buy-In, Finish $, Net Gain/Loss, ROI, Running ROI, and Length of Session. The information for Net Gain/Loss, ROI, and Running ROI are all formulas that are set to automatically populate based on the last known information between the two spreadsheets.

PT tracks all that stuff. You can customize different stats to be displayed. You could use PT or Hold'em Manager (http://www.holdemmanager.net/). They're both good programs that have extensive results tracking abilities. Both also have free trials (60 days for PT, 15 days for Hold'em Manager). Try them both out, see which you like better. I personally like Hold'em Manager a bit better, but I think it's mostly a matter of preference.

As others have already said PT tracks that stuff. It tracks every session you play at ring games, and every tourney you enter. You can even try it free for 60 days to see if it suits your needs.

bullishwwd-PT3 will keep track of your tourneys,buy-ins,ROI and such.(though PT2 did a better job). At the end of a tourney when your knocked out FT puts a file in your hand history folder with the tourney summary.(place, buy-in,money won). PT3 will import these for you. You can also request from FT by e-mail your tourney history(excel format). On PS you can request though the lobby,I think it's under request heading, everything you did-tourney's entered,money won, ring games, money deposited, withdrawals for the past year. You get to chose between 2 or 3 formats and they will e-mail you with a link to download it. Also on PS though the lobby you can request them to e-mail your tourney summary's and if you have a POP3 e-mail account PT3 can automatically download them for you right into PT3.(this is the way I do it on stars). PT3 can also read other sites tourney history's(UB and such).


Best of luck.


P.S. I don't have HEM, but I think it does the same thing a PT3. Also-if your serious about playing poker online, sooner or later you should buy one of these programs. PT3 or HEM.