On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 9:09 PM Lanrete Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > 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) > > 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 > > 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 >
Dunno - - - - (grin) for me - - - that would be all expense - - - - lol. Maybe - - - - you're tracking it like you do at the poker table. Maybe - - - - track it like it money. (I might be misunderstanding the financial aspects here!!!!!) One time I deposit $200 and extract $170 (down $30). Another time I deposit $200 and extract $220 (up $20). Then it would be just one account (well - - - - actually 2 - - - include cash) 'poker' - - - - unless you start playing more often. Dunno if that's at all accurate - - - wry grin. HTH -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CAPpdf5-iMcFk%3DX6WTiD-E9fOgsvdxARhU4d4ieQaDkj8NiyJUQ%40mail.gmail.com.
