PokerReads vs Poker Bankroll Tracker

PBT does one thing. PokerReads is built to be your only poker tool.

Poker Bankroll Tracker is a bankroll app — it's good at logging sessions and showing you a chip graph. PokerReads is bankroll math plus opponent intelligence, hand-history synthesis, and behavioral analytics, all in one private app. We're more expensive. We also do more. This page is the honest comparison: where PBT wins, where PokerReads wins, what we cost vs what they cost, and the one-click CSV import path if you decide to switch.

If you only need bankroll logging

Stick with PBT. €24.99/yr is the right price for chip graphs, session tags, and rebuy entry. You don't need what PokerReads adds. We're not built to compete on price-per-bankroll-feature.

If you pay for 3 tools today

Switch to PokerReads. If you're running PBT + Hand2Note Pro + a GTO sub, the stack is $1,636/yr. PokerReads Champion at $1,188/yr is ~27% cheaper and consolidates them into one app — with cross-session opponent reads no tracker has.

If you live-grind serious cash

Switch to PokerReads. PBT can't ingest PT4 / Hand2Note / HM3 history. PokerReads can. Drop nine years of orphaned hands in and we build reads on every villain you've ever played. The wedge that justifies the premium.

Feature
PBT
PokerReads
Bankroll math
Live session logging (timer, buy-in, cash-out, rebuys)
Yes
Yes
Edit a rebuy after the session ended — math reconciles
Yes (but no audit trail)
Yes — with "Edited · was rebuy $600" badge and one-tap Undo
Multi-account bankroll (bank, cash, online site, club, staking)
Paid tier only
Free tier — first-class
Multi-currency with daily exchange rates
Yes (40+ currencies)
Yes (USD-anchored with per-tx exchange rate)
Reported-balance reconciliation vs ledger drift
No
Yes — surfaces the missing row before next session
30-day soft-delete with Recycle Bin + Restore
Yes (30-day Maintenance recycle)
Yes (Recently Deleted tab, Restore + Delete Forever)
Session save auto-creates bankroll ledger row (no double-entry)
No (manual)
Yes — linked, edits cascade
Reports & analytics
Chip graph / cumulative bankroll over time
Yes
Yes
BB/h, $/h, ROI per game / stakes / location
Yes
Yes
Closed-form Risk of Ruin + Kelly fraction
"Stacks needed for 5% RoR" only
5 bankroll levels at 0.5 / 1 / 2 / 5 / 10% RoR + Kelly fraction
Variance calculator with EV + σ
Yes
Yes (closed-form, not Monte Carlo — math is equivalent for RoR question)
Day-of-week / hour-of-day heatmap
No
Yes (DayOfWeekBreakdown shipped)
Hourly Window Recommendation — your highest-EV hours of the day on real session data
No
Coming — start-time intelligence surfaced inside Bankroll Intelligence; ships when real-user-data smoke is green
Session-length decay — finds your optimal session length
No
Yes — most players discover they've been playing two hours past their edge for years
Stop-loss simulation (replay history under a cap)
No
Yes — tells you the cap that would have saved money
Rolling-window stats (last 10 / 20 / 50) with trend
No
Yes — the "how am I doing right now" question, answered properly
Life-event segmentation (move, baby, coaching block)
No
Yes — before-and-after $/h on tagged life events
Mood × hourly rate correlation
No
Yes — pre/post 1–5 mood regressed against $/h
IRS Schedule C / tax-year CSV export (gross win / loss separated)
No
Yes — CPA-ready with disclaimer + per-session audit trail
Filters: date / stakes / location / game / cash-vs-tournament
Yes
Yes (8-dimension filter — adds weekday, duration bucket, winners-only)
Opponent intelligence
Cross-session opponent notes / reads
No — does not exist in PBT
Yes — the original PokerReads feature
AI synthesis from hand histories + chats + screenshots into prose reads
No
Yes — source-backed, cited hands, confidence map
Game Plan / live-table prep — ranked brief before you sit
No
Yes — paste lineup, get ranked reads with exploit lines
Share-A-Read — send a scrubbed scout link to a friend
No
Yes — time-limited, referral credit on signup
Imports
CSV import from competitor bankroll apps
15+ apps supported
PBT shipped; Pokerbase / Bink / Poler auto-detection + import-screen banner in hardening (ships when real-user-data smoke is green).
Plain text → standardized PokerStars-format HH (paste a phone-note hand, get exportable HH)
No — PBT does not ingest plain text
Coming — dedicated converter screen. NLHE export already smoke-tested green in GTO Wizard Analyzer (1/1 processed and analyzed). PLO export is legal PokerStars-format with pot-limit safety checks for PLO-capable importers; GTOW PLO upload remains unverified on their side. Ships when real-user-data corpus smoke is green.
Strict export refuses to fabricate sizing (b75 stays percentage-of-pot, never invents "$75")
N/A — PBT has no HH export pipeline
Coming — converter returns a repair hint with explicit guidance when pot math is ambiguous instead of guessing dollars.
Bulk HH export quarantine (review-needed/repair-needed/out-of-scope hands isolated to footer; clean section stays parser-ready)
N/A
Coming — only strict-ready hands go in the parser-readable top section; review-needed, repair-needed, and out-of-scope hands are quarantined to the comment footer with raw source + warnings + repair hints.
Hand2Note (.h2n) hand history import
No — "database too huge for mobile" per PBT FAQ
Yes — full parser
PokerTracker 4 (.pdb / .txt) hand history import
No — same reason
Yes — full parser
Holdem Manager 3 hand history import
No
Yes — full parser
Raw PokerStars / GG hand history (.txt) import
No
Yes
WhatsApp / Telegram group chat ingestion
No
Yes — auto-detect + parse
Screenshot ingestion (Triton recaps, table photos, iPhone Notes)
No
Yes
Cross-product wedges (opponent intel × bankroll math) — v1.0.20
Opponent-weighted hourly rate — split $/h by who was actually at the table
No — PBT has no opponent layer to weight by
Coming v1.0.20 — your real $/h against villainX vs the average
Game-selection coach — paste a lineup, get sit/pass recommendation
No — no saved reads to predict edge from
Coming v1.0.20 — uses your reads + edge per villain
Tilt-aware live stake recommendation (mood × bankroll × recent decay × RoR)
No — no coaching layer + no mood tracking
Coming v1.0.20 (Coach Mode extension shipping in parallel)
Hand → bankroll impact cross-reference (tag each hand with its $ result)
No — PBT has no hands
Coming v1.0.21+ (connects the canonical HH writer to the bankroll graph)
What PBT does that PokerReads does not (yet)
Interactive hand replayer (step through action street-by-street)
Yes — flagship feature
Coming v1.0.20 — we parse the hands today; the visual replay ships next
Friend connections / view friend's last-7-day sessions
Yes (Pro)
Share-A-Read covers point-to-point; friend feed is v1.0.21+
Leaderboards
Yes (opt-in)
No — by design (privacy + bad-info-sharing concerns)
Public REST API
Yes (Pro, 20 req / 15 min)
No — your reads stay private to your account
ICM / chip-chop / payout calculators
Yes (Pro)
Coming v1.0.21+
Languages
12+
English only (i18n is v1.1+)

Pricing — the honest math.

We don't dodge this. PokerReads Champion is more expensive than PBT. Here's exactly what each costs, what each does, and when the math works in our favor.

Poker Bankroll Tracker

€24.99
per year · annual sub only
  • Bankroll logging + chip graph
  • Rebuys, tags, multi-currency
  • 15+ competitor CSV imports
  • Variance calc + Risk of Ruin
  • Hand replayer (Pro)
  • Friend connections + leaderboards (Pro)
  • Public API (Pro)

PokerReads Champion

$99
per month · cancel anytime
  • Everything PBT does (bankroll, charts, RoR, multi-currency, imports)
  • Cross-session AI opponent reads (PBT has none)
  • PT4 / Hand2Note / HM3 history import (PBT can't do this)
  • Behavioral analytics (mood, decay, life-event, stop-loss sim)
  • Rebuy edit-trail with one-tap Undo
  • Game Plan + Share-A-Read
  • IRS Schedule C tax-year export
The honest math: If you only need bankroll logging, PBT is the right call at €24.99/yr — we are not trying to beat them on price for that lane. PokerReads Champion at $1,188/yr makes sense when you're currently paying for multiple tools — for example, a serious online grinder running Hand2Note Pro ($588/yr) + GTO Wizard Premium ($948/yr) + a bankroll sub ($100/yr) is at $1,636/yr today, and PokerReads consolidates that into $1,188/yr with one app that does what none of them do alone. If your current setup is PT4 perpetual ($100 once + $50/yr maintenance) + free bankroll app + occasional GTOW Starter, we are NOT cheaper — we are deeper. Decide which trade matters to you.

Switching from PBT — three steps, no data loss.

If you decide to switch, your full PBT history comes with you. Locations, stakes, rebuys, tags, notes — all of it. The importer is shipped, tested (11/11 unit tests pass on real PBT export schema), and lives one tap deep in the Import Hub.

Step 1

Export your PBT history

In PBT (web or app, Pro tier), go to Settings → Data → Export CSV. Save the file. PBT exports your full session history, rebuys, tags, locations, and stakes.

Step 2

Open the Import Hub in PokerReads

Tap "Switch from Poker Bankroll Tracker." Drop in the CSV file. PokerReads parses it, shows you a preview (n sessions, total volume, date range), and waits for your confirm.

Step 3

Confirm and you're done

Your full PBT history lands in PokerReads with rebuys, tags, locations, and stakes intact. The synthesis engine starts building reads on any opponents you mentioned in session notes. Cancel your PBT sub when ready.

Honest pitch: if PBT is enough, keep it — we don't want unhappy switchers. If you've been paying for a stack of tools, or you want the opponent-intel layer no tracker has, the import path is one tap. We'll bring your full history with you.

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