Your tournament record
Use the all-in cost — a “$50 + $5” event is $55 here.
Everything you’ve been paid back, added up.
Your ROI
Return on investment
+10.0%
profit of $500 across 100 tournaments.
- Total invested$5,000
- Total winnings$5,500
- Net profit$500
- Profit per tournament$5
A few hundred tournaments is a small sample for ROI — a single deep run can swing this number by a lot. Treat it as a rough read, not proof of your edge.
How this is calculated
ROI is just profit over what you risked: ROI = (winnings − buy-ins) ÷ buy-ins × 100, where buy-ins = tournaments × average buy-in. A 10% ROI means you make 10 cents of profit for every dollar you put in across the long run.
The honesty caveat matters more here than in cash games: tournament results are dominated by rare big finishes, so ROI measured over a few hundred events is mostly noise. Serious players look at thousands of tournaments before trusting the figure.
What counts as a good tournament ROI?
For online multi-table tournaments, a long-run ROI of +10% to +30% is generally considered strong; live tournaments, with softer fields and bigger fees, can run higher. But the word that matters is long-run. Tournament results are driven by rare deep finishes, so ROI over a few hundred events tells you far less than the number suggests.
One final-table run can flip a losing sample to a glowing ROI. That’s why StackWise tracks tournaments distinctly from cash and treats a small-sample ROI as a rough read, not a verdict on your skill.
Track cash and tournaments — each on its own terms.
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Sources & method
ROI = (total winnings − total buy-ins) ÷ total buy-ins × 100. Sample-size and variance context from Primedope’s tournament variance calculator and Pokerfuse.