Spreadsheets

Does anyone use an Excel Spreadsheet to track how they finish in tournaments to find out what games / how many players / stakes you are good at? Do you think it would be beneficial to use such a set-up?

Keeping stats is always useful, but it will also depends on how you use them. Knowing ones strengths and weaknesses when it comes to different stakes/players would be great. Like say you place itm 20% of the time at a certain stake with under 200 players, but then when the number of players increases to 250+ you drop to 10%...you could then figure out which tables to play at and so forth.

official poker rankings (OPR) keeps it for you

also sharkscope

Rumsey,

How aften do they update the OPR?

Live or online? For live I like pokerdominator.com or google Apps (over excel)

I use google documents to track bovada since OPR can't. Problem with filtering for field size is it takes a long time to get a sample size with any real meaning. It stands to reason that smaller fields means less variance. I mainly just track for ROI %.

tazer said:

Rumsey,

How aften do they update the OPR?

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when i was playing FTP it would have stuff reported in like an hour or so, idk i only looked when i was doing well

For live I use pokercharts.com , very low cost and very easy to use.

^ why would you pay for something you can make yourself in about 10 minutes?

I made one in about 5 minutes that works really well for what I want it to. Keeps track of my buyins, winnings, players, ITM, place, %finish, and I have running totals/averages for each category. Works perfect for me

rumsey182 said:

^ why would you pay for something you can make yourself in about 10 minutes?

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Because my time is worth more than the $15/year cost for this tool that I have no hope of duplicating in a spreadsheet.