What does this result mean?
Two venues with the same table hourly can produce different overall rates when travel demands differ. Projects no future earnings.
Poker costs and true hourly calculator
Updated October 2026 · by Tom Howcroft
Count expenses and travel time in the same sample. Free, no account. See the formula, assumptions and editable inputs.
£1,000
£150
40
10
+£850
Net result
£17.0/hr
Hourly including travel
£21.3/hr
Hourly excluding travel
Example
The example inputs below are hypothetical. Change them to inspect your own study scenario. Add only expenses attributable to the selected sessions so unrelated spending does not distort the comparison. Projects no future earnings.
Estimates for study and planning only, not a profit promise. Overshove tracks your real sample so these inputs come from your own data.
How to use the answer responsibly
Treat the calculator as a planning tool, not a verdict on one session. A live poker input is usually an estimate: your win rate is noisy, your standard deviation changes by game type, and your future volume rarely matches the clean number you type into a form. The useful habit is to save the assumptions beside the result so you know what would need to change before the decision changes.
If the result pushes against what you wanted to do, do not smooth the inputs until the answer feels nicer. Make the conservative version first, using a lower win rate, a higher swing rate or fewer weekly hours. Then run the optimistic version. The space between those answers is the real decision area: where a shot needs a stop rule, where a move up needs more buy-ins, or where a good-looking hourly still needs a bigger sample.
Overshove calculators become more useful when the inputs come from your own logged sessions. Rake, tips, travel, hours, stake mix and session length all change the number. A generic benchmark can teach the shape of the problem, but a clean personal log gives the number you should actually act on.
Questions
What formula does this tool use?
Net result = table result - costs. True hourly divides that net by play plus travel hours. Do not subtract costs twice if your result already includes them. Projects no future earnings.
Is this tool free and does it require an account?
It runs in your browser for free with no account. The result is a study calculation under the stated assumptions, not a recommendation to play or a promise of winnings.