POKER JOURNAL

Log every session. See what your stats really say.

A free, cross-device session journal for serious poker players. Track win rate, hours played, mood, opponents, and notes — and watch your bb/100 graph emerge over time.

What you log per session

  • ·Stake, format, site
  • ·Hours and hands
  • ·Buy-in, cash-out, net
  • ·Mood (1-5) and free-form notes
  • ·Tags (e.g. 'tilt', 'tired', 'hot table')

What you see

  • ·Total profit, hours, hands
  • ·bb/100 by stake
  • ·Win rate by day-of-week
  • ·Mood vs net heatmap
  • ·Tag breakdowns

Free with a PokerPro account. Sync across devices.

Guide

Why a session journal beats memory

Ask any losing micro-stakes player how they're running and they'll tell you a story — the coolers, the one bad table, the heater last Tuesday. Stories are how memory works, and memory is a terrible tracker. A journal replaces the story with numbers: what you actually made per hour, at which stakes, on which days, and — the part nobody expects — in which moods.

This journal is built for players grinding NL2-NL25 or small tournaments who want tracker-style insight without installing tracker software. Each session takes under a minute to log. Over weeks, the dashboard turns those entries into bb/100 by stake, win rate by day of week, a mood-vs-profit heatmap, and tag breakdowns that show which conditions you actually win under.

How to use it

  1. 1.Create a free account (that's what enables cross-device sync) and open the journal.
  2. 2.After every session — including the short, losing, and embarrassing ones — log stake, hours, result, mood, and a one-line note.
  3. 3.Set a monthly goal in hours or profit and let the tracker show your pace.
  4. 4.Review the stats monthly. Look for one pattern to act on — e.g. "I lose on Fridays" or "mood 2 sessions are always red" — and change one habit.

What the data will show you

The classic findings, in roughly the order players discover them: sessions logged at mood 1-2 lose money almost universally (that's a tilt signature, and the fix is not playing them); long sessions decay — hour four is rarely as profitable as hour one; and one stake is usually carrying your entire win rate while another quietly bleeds. None of this is visible without logs, and all of it is worth more than another strategy video. Pair the journal with the bankroll calculator — the journal tells you how you're playing, the bankroll rules tell you what stakes you're allowed to play while you improve.

Frequently asked questions

Is the poker journal free?

Yes — free with a PokerPro account, no card required. The account exists purely so your sessions sync across devices; there's no trial period or session cap.

Why does this tool need an account when the others don't?

The other 19 tools are stateless calculators — they run in your browser and remember nothing. A journal is only useful if your data persists and follows you from laptop to phone, which requires storing it server-side under your account. That's the whole reason sign-in exists here.

What should I log for each session?

Stake, format, site, hours, hands (estimate is fine), buy-in and cash-out, a 1-5 mood score, and any tags or notes ('tilted after cooler', 'great table'). The whole entry takes under a minute. The mood score feels silly until you see your mood-vs-profit heatmap after 30 sessions.

How many sessions before the stats mean anything?

Behavioral patterns (day-of-week results, mood vs net, session length effects) start showing at 20-30 sessions. Your bb/100 win rate is different — it needs tens of thousands of hands to converge, so treat early win-rate numbers as noise. Our variance calculator shows exactly how noisy.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes — it's browser-based and responsive, so you can log a session from your phone right after you finish playing, which is when you should log it (memory of a session degrades fast).

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