IRS Daily Tournament Record

I'm still waiting to be able to play online poker again.  Holdem Manager has not yet matched their code to the recent Juicy Stakes Poker update, so I can't use my HUD (see previous post) and I'm not going to play without it.  I did get one small victory.  I had not been able to print my IRS daily tournament spreadsheets (see below), but I finally worked out that glitch yesterday.

Almost all income is taxable in the United States,* including income from playing a game, whether that game is professional baseball, a Scrabble tournament or poker.  Poker is my job, which for income tax purposes makes me the owner of a Schedule C business.  I have to provide information about my business income and losses.

For poker players there are other complications that I won't go into here, but the bottom line is that I want to be bulletproof if the IRS has any questions.  I use sheets like the one below, with each of the six large boxes showing all of the information for one tournament.  I have these records online as well, but the IRS loves documentation, so I'm prepared to hit them with a lot of paper which shows my numbers for every one of the hundreds of tournaments that I play in a year.  It's not a lot of work for me, I just fill it in after every tournament.

As always, your questions and comments are welcome (see box at the bottom of the page.)

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*The only exceptions that I am aware of are income from tax-free municipal bonds and military pay earned in a combat zone.

Date			Date			Date
Poker site			Poker site			Poker site
Tour. Number			Tour. Number			Tour. Number
Start			Start			Start
End			End			End
Hours			Hours			Hours
Finish place			Finish place			Finish place
Players			Players			Players
Buy-in			Buy-in			Buy-in
Rebuys			Rebuys			Rebuys
Add-ons			Add-ons			Add-ons
Re-entries			Re-entries			Re-entries
Cash			Cash			Cash
Bounties			Bounties			Bounties
Bonus			Bonus			Bonus
PROFIT/LOSS			PROFIT/LOSS			PROFIT/LOSS
Rake			Rake			Rake
FPPs			FPPs			FPPs
Date			Date			Date
Poker site			Poker site			Poker site
Tour. Number			Tour. Number			Tour. Number
Start			Start			Start
End			End			End
Hours			Hours			Hours
Finish place			Finish place			Finish place
Players			Players			Players
Buy-in			Buy-in			Buy-in
Rebuys			Rebuys			Rebuys
Add-ons			Add-ons			Add-ons
Re-entries			Re-entries			Re-entries
Cash			Cash			Cash
Bounties			Bounties			Bounties
Bonus			Bonus			Bonus
PROFIT/LOSS			PROFIT/LOSS			PROFIT/LOSS
Rake			Rake			Rake
FPPs			FPPs			FPPs