For semi-pro grinders

Income, measured honestly

A second income deserves better than a mental tally. A buy-in and cash-out log misses the costs that define a true hourly, while a result graph without variance context cannot separate running bad from playing bad. For a semi-pro those are not small gaps. They are the difference between knowing your edge and hoping you have one.

Overshove measures the income properly: net after rake, tips and travel, split by stake and venue, projected to the month and the year at your actual volume. Session-level records export to CSV whenever you or your accountant need them. One number answers the only question that matters at the end of a quarter: are the hours worth it?

A week on the grind

Tuesday, 6pm, you sit at 2/5 after work. Starting stack logged in about ten seconds before the first hand. You top up once; two taps. A regular pays off your river overbet with a bluff-catcher he had no business holding, and a hand you misplayed on the turn nags at you; you mark both and keep playing. At 11pm you rack up, enter the cash-out, and do the cool-down in the car park: ninety seconds, tag overfolding turn vs aggression on the hand you butchered, one line of reads on the lineup at that table.

Friday runs the same. Saturday you skip: the readiness check says short sleep and a heavy work week, and a C-game session at 2/5 costs more than it earns.

Sunday morning is desk time. Twenty-five minutes: the week's marked hands, one spot run through the solver, and the turn overfold confirmed as a real leak because the same tag now sits on five hands this month. You log the study session against that tag, so next month you can see whether the leak is actually closing. That is the whole loop. No spreadsheet, no reconstructing hands from memory three days later.

What 40 hours actually pays

Say last month was 40 hours at 2/5 across ten sessions, and your buy-ins versus cash-outs total +£2,400. A results-only log stops there: £60 an hour, 12 BB/hr. Now deduct what the felt does not show. You tip roughly £6 an hour, and the ten round trips cost about £18 each in fuel and parking.

The true number is £49.50 an hour, 9.9 BB/hr, which is 17.5% below gross. Project both to a 480-hour year and the gap is £5,040. That is not a rounding error; it is the difference between a real second income and a story you tell yourself. Overshove runs this arithmetic on every session automatically, so the hourly you plan around is the one you actually earn.

Stay rolled, protect your A-game

Bankroll discipline is what separates a semi-pro from a recreational player having a hot quarter. Overshove holds your rules per stake, flags when the roll supports a shot at 5/10, and flags when it does not. A stop-loss set in advance beats the one you negotiate with yourself at 1am, four buy-ins deep.

Downswings are where tracking discipline is most vulnerable. Stopping the log deletes exactly the data that could show whether the swing was variance. The variance view is built for those stretches. At 40 hours a month you play roughly 1,100 hands; with a standard deviation of 100 BB/100, one standard deviation on the month is about 330 BB, in the same region as a solid winner's entire monthly expectation. Losing months happen to winners. The tool shows where your stretch sits against your own sample, so you keep the discipline, the roll and the data intact.