1. Customizing your menu

The first time you login go to the session set up panel to customize your menu with your personal settings for location (poker room), structure (5-10 limit etc.), and game (holdem, stud etc). If you are going to start a new session and don’t have a choice for one of these menu options entered yet you must enter that option here before recording the session.

2. Registering a session

When you are waiting to enter a poker game or shortly after starting to play take notes for the session entries to be made when you can get online or use your smart phone to login to Poker Pro Bookkeeper. After login make your entries by go to "Enter New Session" and click on Register Session.
The current date and time (MDT – USA) will be displayed and will automatically be entered as the beginning time for that session unless you change it manually. If you need to enter a different time or date just click the drop down menu and pick the time and date you need.
Click the drop down menu to get options for each of the following entries:
A. For location choose one of your pre set custom options.
B. For Online choose Online or Live.
C. For game choose one of your pre set custom options.
D. For Tournament choose Cash Game or Tournaments
E. For Structure choose one of your pre set custom options
F. For Buyin enter the amount you buyin for that session.
    If you have to rebuy end the session (expained in 3) and start a new session.
G. If you receive a casino comp start a separate session and leave every entry blank except     location. You will not need to Update the comp sessions as there is no playing time or cash     out to record.
Click Submit Session. You will get a “session entered successfully response” and you are done. If you get a failed response you will have to try again.

3. Register the end of a Session

Go to Enter New Session and click Update Session.
There will be a drop down menu with the past few sessions listed with the most recent at the top.
A. Select the session you are ending.
B. Enter your cash out amount.
C. Enter any journal notes you may have. You may take as many notes as you want. The box     doesn’t limit the amount of notes you take.
Click Submit Session and your complete session is finished.

Important
If you get behind on registering sessions you may enter sessions and update sessions anytime by selecting the correct date and time from the date and time drop down menus. This means that if you wish you can use session notes to add sessions for all of 2007 if you wish, just don’t add more that seven at a time before updating the sessions. If you wish to go back further than 2007 please contact me at Mike @

4. Get Your Results

Click Get Your Results to view the income results of all months of the current year and going back as many years as you have been using it.
Each category shows the total of each month and year total for the current year. There is a year drop down menu in the top left corner that can be used to view past years once you have been using it for more than one year.
There are different categories that sort your income results by total income, live cash game, live tournament game, online cash game, online tournament game, live structure limit, live type of game, online structure limit, online type of game, live cash game location, live tournament location, online cash game location, online tournament location, casino comps location, a daily log of sessions and a session journal. Some of the related categories are printed on the same page.
Each page can be print off without any graphics and in the same column form as they are viewed online. They can also be saved to excel on your personal computer.

5. Analyze Your Results

In time you may see a pattern of where you derive your best income, such as what poker room has the most profitable game or limit for you, weather cash games or tournaments are best for you in the long run, the live game or online game, even which casino gives you the most comps. You may find that some are of equal importance and that you should give time to both areas. Over time you may see reoccurring problems as well as strong points recorded in your journal.