Review of Check Your Bets .com
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Check Your Bets will record all your poker sessions. It is designed specifically for poker (both live and online), not gambling in general, and it only records sessions, not bonuses or other extras. In each session, you record record the start time, end time, location, game type, your buy-in, your rebuys, your cashout amount, and any comments of your own. If you play online, you can record the start and end of your sessions in real time. Not only will it keep this information and put it in a nice table, but you can also look at various charts and graphs, such as your winnings over the past year.
Look
The interface seems pretty well-designed. It is functional, not extravagant, but not too boring. Its simplicity seems to have a little charm.
Content Quality / Quality
I only have one significant complaint: if you are recording the start and end of your session in real time, you cannot edit the session data until the session is finished. For example, if I start a longhanded $3/6 limit game and I accidentally marked it as a $3/6 no-limit game, I can’t correct the error until the session is over. Or maybe I didn’t open the session on the website until 5 minutes after I actually joined the game, so I need to correct the time (I like to record accurate times); that can’t be fixed either. Or maybe I have three $3/6 limit tables open, but there’s no way to distinguish them because I can’t type in their names until the sessions are over. Is “Fuzzy Logic” the $3/6 table I started playing at around 3:30, or is it the $3/6 table I started playing at around 3:45?
This is not too big an issue: if I make a mistake, I just open Notepad and type in the correction to make so I won’t forget. I also usually know which tables I started around when due to how I arrange them on the screen.
Unique Pros / Cons
It’s entirely web-based, so you don’t have to download anything, but you have to sign up for an account. The only thing is that it doesn’t seem to be updated very often, although it isn’t in real need of updating other than the issues I stated above.
Bottom Line
If you use Poker Tracker at all your sites, you may not need it, although it’d still be nice to have your records clearly and cleanly divided into sessions (for tax reasons if nothing else). If you don’t use Poker Tracker, I strongly recommend it. I use it myself!
