Cash Game Analysis

How to read your GGPoker cash results in BluffLog: what a session is, where the rake goes, what the All-in EV line says, why the red line points down, and which positions actually lose.

This guide walks through the four cash screens in the order you will use them after a session, and stops at the things that are easy to misread. Every screenshot is from version 0.16.0; click one to see it full size. The numbers on the pictures match the numbered points under them.

Sessions: what you actually kept

1. Net and BB/100 are after rake. PokerCraft shows the pots you took; this column shows what stayed on your balance. A session that felt fine can end with a red number here because the rake in Rush & Cash at small stakes is a large share of every pot.
2. A session is a run of hands with no gap longer than 15 minutes. Tables do not matter: four tables at once are one session, and a break for dinner starts a new one. Selecting a session pins it as a filter for the whole app, which is what the chip in the bar at the top means. Press × on the chip to go back to all hands.
3. Rake+JP per hand in the lower table is your share of the rake and the jackpot drop, not the whole table’s. Each pot’s rake is split by what each player put in, so a hand you folded preflop costs nothing, and a folded blind costs only that blind’s share.

The lower table has the cards, the board and the result of every hand of the session. A star marks a hand for later; the hand review window opens from any row.

Profit: balance against expectation

1. P&L, bb/100 and your rake on one line. The rake figure is the same per-hand share as above, added up. Jackpot drops are counted the same way but are not in this number; they are inside the Rake+JP column on the Sessions page.
2. Balance is green, All-in EV is yellow. The EV line is what you would have won if every all-in had resolved at its fair equity. It is computed only for hands where the opponent’s cards are known, so preflop folds and uncontested pots move both lines by the same amount.
3. Read the gap, not the lines. Yellow above green means you ran below expectation; green above yellow, as here, means you ran above it. On a sample of thirty thousand hands a gap of this size is normal and says nothing about your play. What it does say is how much of the result is luck, and that is the number to keep in mind before changing anything.

Analytics, Overview: where the money comes from

1. WTSD is counted from flops seen, W$SD from showdowns reached. Both are stated on the screen so you do not compare them with a tracker that counts from all hands dealt. A WTSD around a quarter and a W$SD just over half is an ordinary picture at micro stakes.
2. The blue line is money won at showdown. It goes up for almost everyone who plays tight: you get to showdown with the better hand more often than not.
3. The red line is money won without showdown. It goes down for most players at small stakes, and that is not a leak by itself: the blinds you post and lose, the c-bets you fold to and the pots you give up all land here. It becomes a leak when it falls faster than the blue line rises, because that means you fold too much once the flop comes.
4. Switch dollars to big blinds when your sample mixes stakes. In dollars a NL10 session outweighs ten NL2 sessions; in bb/100 they count the same.

If your database has Rush & Cash hands, the overview also shows a Cash Drop row: promo money that GG adds to some pots. It is already inside the net result, so subtract it to see what your play alone earned.

Analytics, Winrate: which position loses

1. The blinds are negative for every player who ever lived, because you pay them before seeing cards. The question is not whether SB and BB are red but how red compared with the rest of the table. A big blind losing 40 bb/100 next to a button winning 30 is a normal spread; a big blind losing 80 is where to look first.
2. The last column is how often you call a 3-bet after opening. It is the frequency that most often drifts away from the norm unnoticed: a third of the time is defensible, more than half means you open hands you cannot continue with.
3. Spot types show where a stat hides. A total that looks fine can be made of a strongly positive “hero was the preflop aggressor” row and a negative “faced a c-bet” row, as here. That pair is the same leak as the red line above, seen from the other side.

The Winrate, Preflop and Hand Matrix tabs are part of BluffLog Pro; the Overview and everything on the Sessions and Profit pages is free.

What to do with it

Look at the three numbers in this order: the EV gap on Profit, to know how much of the result is luck; the red line on Overview, to know whether you give up too many pots after the flop; the blinds on Winrate, to know where it happens. Then open the Trainer, which does the comparison with the norms for you and turns the widest deviation into a task.

→ See also: MTT Analysis, where the same screens count tournaments instead of hands.