GlossaryAt the table

Session result

What you won or lost at the table: your stack now, less everything you bought in with, in big blinds.

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What it means
The session result counts every chip you put on the table, the first buy-in and every top-up, against the stack you have now.
How it is calculated
Result = stack − total buy-in, divided by the big blind. It includes any chips you have in the pot of the hand being played, until that hand is decided.
Worked example
Bought in for 100bb and topped up 30bb; now holding 118bb. The result is 118 − 130 = −12bb.
Why it matters
Over a few dozen hands the result is mostly luck. Judge a session by its graded decisions; the result only means something over thousands of hands.

See also: Cash game, Top up, Downswing