I play poker with my friends, sometime I win, sometime I loss, there are 
couple ways to track the win/loss but I feel all have there limitations. 
Hence I'm looking for suggestion here.

Let's say I played poker on May-1st and May-2nd, both with $200 buy-in. On 
May-1st I won $50, On May-2nd I lost $30

   1. Everything poker related count as *Income*
   Above events will be tracked as:
   2023-05-01 * Poker
   Assets:Cash      $50
   Income:Poker
   
   2023-05-02 * Poker
   Assets:Cash      -$30
   Income:Poker
   
   Pro: I can easily know how much in total I win/loss in poker by running 
   `ledger bal Poker`
   Con: Lossing in poker technically is not an `income` (or is it? I don't 
   know for sure)
   
   2. If I win, then it's income, if I loss, it's expense
   Above events will be tracked as:
   2023-05-01 * Poker
   Assets:Cash      $50
   Income:Poker
   
   2023-05-02 * Poker
   Assets:Cash      -$30
   Expense:Poker
   Pro: I guess it's clearer?
   Con: No single account tracks the win/loss of Poker
   
   3. Buy-in as expense, result as income
   Above events will be tracked as:
   2023-05-01 * Poker Buyin
   Assets:Cash      $-200
   Expense:Poker:Buy-in
   
   2023-05-01 * Poker result
   Assets:Cash      $250
   Income:Poker
   
   2023-05-02 * Poker Buyin
   Assets:Cash      $-200
   Expense:Poker:Buy-in
   
   2023-05-02 * Poker result
   Assets:Cash      $170
   Income:Poker
   Pro: I guess it's clearer?
   Con: No single account tracks the win/loss of Poker, more tedious
   
   
I feel like there must be a more accurate way of tracking these...looking 
for suggestions here

many thanks!

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