Session time

[tonixart]

Hello! Can't find information about how PT4 understands when cash game session is over, and new one is started? I ask it because I play many short sessions, and PT4 thinks that it is one big session, so total time that I have played in PT4 is much bigger that real.

[WhiteRider]

PT4 counts it as a new session when there is a break of more than 30 minutes.

[tonixart]

Thank you! So if i play short sessions with short breaks(~20/20 minutes), there is no way to know real time i actually played for?

[WhiteRider]

No. If you're looking at your realtime winrate for example, then you need to include short breaks in those calculations as they are an integral part of your playing schedule.

[tonixart]

Who have decided that? It should be my decision, what include and what exclude. Just another software design mistake.

[WhiteRider]

30 minutes is based on the time that most of the big poker sites use to determine a session within which you can't return to the same table with less money than you left it with (to prevent "rat-holing"). I will pass on your concerns to the development team though.

[tonixart]

Oh, I see, thank you.
But in Zoom, which i play, it seems a bit weird.

[WhiteRider]

I have reminded the development team about this but it isn't as simple a change as it sounds - it may be made configurable at some point in the future, but I don't expect to see it in the short term.

[tonixart]

Thank you!