Bankroll
- Your bankroll is the money you have set aside for poker. Set it up once from the Home screen: enter what the roll is worth right now, pick its currency, and from then on every session you finish updates the balance automatically.
- The balance is never a number you have to maintain by hand. It is always your starting amount, plus every deposit, minus every withdrawal, plus the result of every session counted into it. That means it can never drift out of step with your history.
- Counting your history: when you set the bankroll up you can tick 'also count the sessions I have already logged'. Ticked, everything already in your History is added on top of the amount you entered. Left unticked, the roll starts from today and only sessions from now on move it - use that when the amount you typed already reflects your past results.
- Deposit: money coming into the roll that did not come from playing, like a transfer from your bank. Withdraw: money leaving the roll that did not go into a game, like cashing out to your account. Both take an amount and an optional note, and the amount is always positive - the button you press decides the direction.
- The card shows two numbers: the balance itself, and what poker has done to it since you started the roll (cyan when you are up, red when you are down).
- Bankroll over time: History, then the Analytics tab, shows your balance as a line from the day you opened the roll. Every point is something that moved it - a session, a deposit, a withdrawal - and the tooltip names which. This graph deliberately ignores the filter bar above it: a balance re-drawn from only some of your sessions would be a roll you never actually had. It is the same number as the Home card, drawn over time.
- Cash and tournaments behave differently on purpose, because the money does. A cash buy-in or re-buy does NOT come off your bankroll: that money is still yours, sitting in chips on the table. Only your final stack settles it, so an open cash session leaves the balance alone until you cash out. While one is running the card shows how much of your roll is in play - your buy-ins plus every re-buy, updated the moment you make one - so you can always see where your money is. A tournament buy-in or re-entry DOES come off the balance the moment you pay it, because that money is gone into the prize pool, including between days of a multi-day event; the result settles when the tournament ends.
- Currencies: a session logged in another currency is converted into the bankroll currency automatically, using the same live rates as the rest of the app.
- The coach knows your roll: in chat and in voice, the coach sees your current balance, a 30-day trend, and - during a trip - how much of the trip budget is used and what is left. These are the exact same numbers as the cards on screen, so you can ask 'am I rolled for this game?' or 'how much trip budget is left?' and get an answer from your real figures. If you have not set up a bankroll, the coach simply says it has no bankroll data - it never guesses. And if you tell the coach you play for fun or on a monthly entertainment budget, it anchors its money advice to YOUR budget instead of professional bankroll doctrine - the verdicts become information, not orders.
- Live cash sessions: once you log a stack check-in (see the Sessions section), the balance includes your real live net - what is in front of you plus closed-table cash-outs, minus what you put in - and the coach sees the same live number. The over-time graph still draws settled results only, so during a live session the card can run ahead of the graph's last point by exactly that live net.
- The balance reflects REAL money: promo winnings are added and dealer tips subtracted the moment a session resolves. The trip meter counts promo but ignores tips - a service payment is not a poker loss, the same rule that keeps trip expenses out of that meter.
- The coach sees your current downswing: when you are in an active drawdown, the coach is told how far down you are, over how many sessions, and - when it has the precedent - how many past dips this deep you have climbed out of and how long they took. So instead of a generic 'manage variance', it can say 'you are a few sessions into a real dip, you have recovered from deeper before, here is the move-down / break call' grounded in your own numbers. These come from the same downswing math as the History Downswing card, and the coach stays silent about it when you are not actually in a downswing.
- Bankroll advisor (Pro): History, Analytics tab, under the bankroll graph. It reads your own ended sessions per stake and answers whether your roll fits the stakes you play: a green/amber/red verdict per stake (cash needs 30+ buy-ins for green, 20+ for amber; a cash buy-in is counted as 100 big blinds; MTT is measured against your average entry, 100+ for green, 50+ for amber), plus an MTT row and your current stake marked. When the roll drops under 15 buy-ins for your stake, a move-down alert appears - the same doctrine the coach holds you to.
- Risk of ruin (Pro, part of the advisor): for your current stake the advisor estimates your win rate and swings from your own sessions and shows the mathematical chance of losing the whole roll at that stake, plus a table of the roll size that caps that risk at 1/2/5/10%. It is honest by design: sessions under an hour are not counted, and until a stake has 25 counted sessions AND 50 counted hours it says 'not enough data' instead of showing a number that could be wrong. A losing sample says so plainly - no roll size makes a losing stake safe. The coach quotes these exact verdicts in chat and voice and never recomputes them.
- Monthly poker budget (recreational game plan): when your game plan is recreational with a monthly amount set (Settings, or just tell the coach), the Home screen shows a monthly budget meter - how much of this month's budget your poker has consumed, using the same money rules as the trip meter (promo counts, tips don't, a running tournament's buy-ins count provisionally). When the budget is fully used, starting another session pauses once behind a confirm - the same supportive friction as the trip gate, never a lockout - and the coach anchors its money talk to what's left this month. The bankroll advisor switches too: instead of risk of ruin, it shows budget fit - what a typical buy-in costs against your monthly budget and how many more fit in what's left.
- Shot-taking planner (Pro): History, Analytics tab, next to the advisor. Taking a shot means moving up one cash stake on a bounded budget of buy-ins while you keep a full roll for your current stake. Tap 'Plan a shot': the sheet suggests the next rung above your current stake (you can type any stake or pick one of the common blinds), lets you pick the currency of the target game, and asks for the buy-in budget, 5 by default, the classic amount. One buy-in of the budget is 100 big blinds of the target stake. If your roll is under 30 buy-ins at your current stake the sheet shows a warning (a full current roll is the clean doctrine) but never blocks you; a target equal to your current stake is rejected, since a shot is a move up. Only one shot can be active at a time, and while it is, the History card shows a one-line summary and sends you to the Home screen to manage it. Free users see a teaser with an unlock button and no figures.
- What spends a shot budget: only cash sessions (live or online) that you start while the shot is active, at exactly the target stake and currency; they are tagged with the shot the moment they start. Tournaments never count, and neither do sessions at any other stake, sessions logged retroactively, or sessions played before the shot was opened. The budget is spent by net loss only, counted like the trip meter (promo winnings reduce the loss, dealer tips are never a poker loss), so a winning shot session does not burn it. The live meter on the Home screen is deliberately conservative: during a running shot session every chip you have committed (the buy-in plus every rebuy) counts as at-risk until the session ends, so the bar moves the moment you take another rebuy, with no stack check-in needed, and it settles back to the real net result when you end the session. The bar turns yellow at 80% of the budget and red when the budget is used up.
- Ending a shot: the Home card has two buttons. 'Drop back' asks you to confirm and closes the shot as a retreat, the encouraged move once the budget is gone; 'End shot' is the neutral close for when you held the stake or changed your mind. Nothing closes a shot automatically, not even a used-up budget: the meter turns red, says the budget is used up and highlights the drop-back button, but the decision stays yours. The coach sees the shot in chat and in voice: the target stake, the budget, and how many buy-ins are used and left, read from your ended shot sessions only (so mid-session its figure can lag the live meter and catches up when the session ends). While the budget holds it supports the plan and your normal game at the higher stake; when the budget is used up it accompanies the drop back as smart discipline, offers a short review of how the shot went, and never pushes you to keep firing. It never recomputes those figures and never brings up a shot when none is active.
- Everything here is included in your data export (Settings, then Data), and it is deleted with your account.