Free Poker Bankroll Spreadsheet: Excel and Google Sheets Template

Most players who track their poker results start with a spreadsheet, and for good reason: it is free, it is yours, and you can make it record exactly what you care about. The hard part is building one that does the maths correctly and stays usable after a hundred sessions.

This one is ready to use. It is an .xlsx file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice, with the formulas already in place.

What is in the spreadsheet

The file has two sheets.

Sessions is the log: one row per session, with the formulas already filled in for 500 rows. The header stays at the top while you scroll, every column can be filtered, and the Live / Online column has a drop-down so the totals split correctly.

The rest of the columns are calculated:

• Net result: cashed out minus bought in minus expenses.
• Net (big blinds): the net divided by the big blind, for cash games.
• Per hour: the net divided by the hours.
• Bankroll: your starting bankroll plus every result and transfer so far.

Summary adds everything up: sessions, hours, net result, hourly rate, average per session, share of winning sessions, biggest win and loss, expenses, deposits and withdrawals, your bankroll now, and separate net results and hourly rates for live and online play.

How to open it

• Excel: open the file. If Excel shows a protected view banner, click Enable Editing.
• Google Sheets: upload the file to Google Drive and choose Open with, Google Sheets. Or in an open sheet use File, Import, Upload. Either way you get a normal Google Sheet you can edit on your phone.
• Numbers: open the file; Numbers converts it.
• LibreOffice Calc: open the file.

How to use it

1. On the Summary sheet, type your starting bankroll in the yellow cell.
2. On the Sessions sheet, the first three rows are examples: a live cash game, an online session and a live tournament. Type over them with your own sessions; do not delete the rows, because the formulas live in them.
3. Add one row per session. Leave the calculated columns alone; they fill in as soon as you enter both the buy-in and the cash-out.
4. When you move money in or out of the bankroll, use the Deposit / withdrawal column on its own row, or on the row of the session it belongs to. Never type a deposit as a win.

The formulas, if you want to build your own

Everything in the template is ordinary spreadsheet maths. With the column letters used in the file:

Net result (K): =IF(OR(H2="",I2=""),"",I2-H2-J2)

Per hour (M): =IF(OR(K2="",G2="",G2=0),"",K2/G2)

Bankroll (O), without the empty-row check: =Summary!$B$3+SUM(K$2:K2)+SUM(N$2:N2)

Hourly rate overall: =SUM(K2:K501)/SUM(G2:G501)

Two details are easy to get wrong. The overall hourly rate is total net divided by total hours, not the average of each session's hourly rate: a two-hour session and a ten-hour session should not count the same. And the empty-string checks matter, because without them every empty row would show a zero and drag the averages down.

Add a bankroll chart

The chart is three clicks away and worth having:

1. Select the Date column and the Bankroll column (hold Ctrl or Cmd to select both).
2. Insert a line chart.
3. Put it on the Summary sheet.

A line that climbs with dips is normal. A line that keeps stepping down after every deposit is the most honest feedback a spreadsheet can give.

Make it yours

Common additions:

• Results by stake or game. Use SUMIF on the Stakes or Game column, the same way the Summary sheet splits live and online: =SUMIF(Sessions!E2:E501,"NL25",Sessions!K2:K501).
• Tournament details. Add columns for field size, finishing position and bounties won.
• Start time. A column for the hour you sat down lets you compare morning and late-night sessions, which is one of the more reliable ways to find a leak.
• Rakeback. Keep it in its own column so you can see what your play earns without it.

What the spreadsheet cannot tell you is whether your results are skill or luck. For that, the hourly rate calculator shows the range your true win rate is likely in, and downswing or leak covers how to read a losing stretch.

When a spreadsheet stops being enough

A spreadsheet works well for a few sessions a month. It starts to get in the way when:

• you play live and want to start a timer at the table and add rebuys as they happen, instead of reconstructing the session afterwards;
• you play in several currencies and need conversions;
• you want statistics such as results by day of the week or time of day without building them yourself;
• you want the same data on your phone and your computer without copying files around.

That is where a bankroll tracker app takes over. PokerRoll is free and does those four things on iOS, Android and the web, with satellite tickets and multi-day tournaments on top. Two honest differences from this spreadsheet: it does not have an expenses field yet, and it cannot import a spreadsheet, so the easiest way to switch is to enter your current bankroll as a deposit and log new sessions from there. Whichever you use, the habit that matters is the same: every session, including the losing ones. Poker session log covers what is worth recording.