Reports and screens

The original site had a ScreenShots page with captures of the program. Those images are not reproduced here. The figures below are reconstructions drawn for this archive from how users and reviews described the screens; the numbers in them are illustrative.

1. Tournament list

The main window was a grid: one row per imported tournament with site, date, buy-in, type (SNG / MTT, table size), finish, players and net result. Sorting and filtering on any column; the filter bar at the top covered site, date range and buy-in band.

Tourney Manager – Tournaments Site: All ▾ Date: Last 30 days ▾ Buy-in: $11–$22 ▾ Type: SNG 9-max ▾ DateSiteBuy-inTypePlayersFinishPrizeNet 2008-03-01 21:14Full Tilt$11SNG 9-max91$45.00+$34.00 2008-03-01 21:52Full Tilt$11SNG 9-max96$0.00–$11.00 2008-03-01 22:30PokerStars$16SNG 9-max93$27.00+$11.00 2008-03-02 19:05PartyPoker$22SNG 10-max104$0.00–$22.00 2008-03-02 19:41Full Tilt$11SNG 6-max62$21.00+$10.00 2008-03-02 20:20Full Tilt$11SNG 9-max99$0.00–$11.00 Tournaments: 412 Buy-ins: $5,214 Prizes: $5,761 Net: +$547 ROI: 10.5% ITM: 39.1%
Reconstruction of the tournament grid and its totals bar. Numbers are made up for illustration.

2. Finish distribution

The report most people posted screenshots of. For a chosen filter it counted every finishing position and showed count, percentage and net for each. For a 9-max SNG player this is the fastest way to see whether losses come from busting early (a preflop-aggression problem) or from bubbling and finishing 4th (an ICM problem).

Finish distribution – 9-max SNG, $11, n = 412 14.6%12.4%12.1%13.3%11.4%10.0%9.2%8.5%8.5% 1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th
Reconstruction of the finish-distribution bar chart. A 4th-place bar taller than 3rd, as here, is the classic sign of losing chips on the bubble.

3. ROI by buy-in and site

A pivot-style table: rows for each buy-in level (optionally split by site), columns for count, ITM %, average finish, profit and ROI. This is where you found out that your $22 games were subsidising your $33 experiment.

Buy-inTourneysITM %Avg finishProfitROI
$6.508842.04.6+$9616.8%
$1141239.14.8+$54712.1%
$2216036.95.0+$1323.8%
$334131.75.4–$99–7.3%

Illustrative figures. How many tournaments it takes before a table like this means anything is the subject of this article.

4. Results graph

Cumulative net profit against tournament number, with the option to overlay expected value once the program had a large enough sample. The screenshot on the original site showed a healthy up-sloping line; at least one blogger admitted his own, after 17 tournaments, did not look like that.

Net profit – all SNGs $tournaments → actualexpected
Reconstruction of the cumulative results graph with an expected-value line.

Sources for the descriptions

  • TripJax, "Poker Manager", August 2007 — the graph, the 17-tournament sample, the screenshot on the original site.
  • Pokerforum.nu, "Allt om Tourney Manager" — filters by site, date range and buy-in; prize-structure handling.
  • PokerStars School Italy, "Strategie SNG – altro" — placement distribution, ROI and hourly earnings as the headline reports.