Log every session. See what your stats really say.

Log a session and see what your results say. A free, cross-device session journal for serious poker players. Track win rate, hours played, mood, opponents and notes, then watch your bb/100 graph emerge over time.

Example: eight made-up sessions at NL10, never saved. This is what a logged session and its results look like; none of it is anyone's real results, and none of it is saved.

Step 1: What did you play, and for how long?

Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026
Duration: 150 min
Game: NLHE, cash
Stake: NL10
Hands: 560

Step 2: How did it go?

Buy-in: $20.00
Cash-out: $34.10
Result: +$14.10

Step 3: How did you feel, and what did you learn?

Mood before: 4 · Sharp
Mood after: 4 · Sharp
Tags: A-game

Best decision: Folded a big pair when the river filled a flush and they bet big.
Worst decision: Called a big river bet with one pair, just to see.
Focus next session: Fold one pair to big river bets from tight players.

The example's results+$24.80

Up $24.80 over 8 sessions and 16.5 hours: +$1.50 an hour. 5 sessions won, 3 lost.

Cumulative profit

8 sessions, oldest first

Net result+$24.80

Sessions85 won, 3 lost

Hours16.53,690 hands

$ / hr+$1.50

What the example's sessions say

·High-mood sessions average +$4.58/hr; low-mood sessions average -$2.91/hr. Quit when tilted.
·Tag "tired" appears in 2 sessions and is costing you -$16.50 total. Worth investigating.

Exact · added up from the example's 8 sessions

Why

A session wonA session lost

Each point on the graph adds one session to the total: 5 winning sessions added +$43.70 and 3 losing ones took -$18.90. The best was +$14.10, the worst -$10.70. Single sessions swing far more than skill moves them, so a handful says little; the pattern in your notes and moods says more.

Luck (variance) moves single sessions; tilt shows up in the moods. Note the stake and each buy-in so the totals stay true.

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.

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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.Create a free account (that's what enables cross-device sync) and open the journal.
2.After every session (including the short, losing, and embarrassing ones), log stake, hours, result, mood, and a one-line note.
3.Set a monthly goal in hours or profit and let the tracker show your pace.
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 53 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).