Secondary KPIs

If you head to the Stats tab of your Dashboard, you should see 4 KPIs we haven't talked about yet: ITM, Play time, ROI and Profit/hour.

These indicators don't carry the same weight as CEV or Profit, but they provide useful context to frame your activity.

Quick reminder before reading on. In the image above, you can see a small colored dot to the left of ROI and Profit/hour.

This dot indicates the profit mode currently selected (the same one as the main Profit KPI) among the four covered in chapter 2.2 "The 4 profit modes": Profit, Effective EV Profit, EV Profit or EV Multi Profit.

This changes everything: read in Profit mode, ROI and Profit/hour describe what actually happened on your sample, i.e. raw results, affected by variance.

Switched to Effective EV Profit, however, they become true performance indicators, because they neutralize multiplier luck. We'll come back to this section by section.

ITM (In The Money) shows the percentage of Spins where you finished 1st. In 3-max Spin, you only get paid by winning the game, so "finishing ITM" means winning.

We won't dwell on this KPI, because it isn't very useful. We added it to the Dashboard because beginner players regularly ask for it, but at heart, it measures a result, not a performance. Two equivalent players can have different ITMs on the same sample, simply because of variance.

The Play time KPI shows the total duration during which you were actually at the tables, over the selected period. And the key word here is "actually".

ROI (Return On Investment) is the ratio between your profit and the sum of all the buy-ins paid over the period. It's a simple way to know "for every €100 wagered, how much was left for me?"

Concrete example. Over 2,000 Spins at €5, you paid €10,000 in buy-ins. If your final profit is +€300 (rakeback included), your ROI is 300 / 10,000 = 3%. In other words, for every €5 buy-in, you walk away with €5.15 on average.

Like the Profit KPI, ROI follows the active profit mode: Profit, Effective EV Profit, EV Profit or EV Multi Profit. You therefore get 4 different ROIs depending on how you want to read your earnings (again, see chapter 2.2 on the 4 profit modes).

Profit/hour is arguably the most useful of the 4 secondary KPIs. It divides your profit by the play time seen above, to give your average earnings per hour actually spent at the tables.

This point is worth emphasizing: the denominator really is the effective play time, not the session time in the broad sense. In a 2-hour session, if you took two 15-minute breaks to reply to messages or grab a coffee, the tracker only counted 1h30 of play time. Your Profit/hour is therefore computed over those 1h30.

Like ROI, Profit/hour follows the active profit mode and offers 4 variants. And as with ROI, it's by switching to Effective EV Profit that the indicator truly comes into its own: you get the €/h you should have made on your sample, neutralizing multiplier luck.

Behind this technical wording lies, in reality, the most important metric in the whole tracker. Every Spin player, from beginner to pro, spends their time trying to optimize this single number. And to optimize it, there are only three levers, the three pillars of the Spin player covered at the very start of module 1:

• Pillar 1 · volume: play more hours at the tables, or more tables in parallel.
• Pillar 2 · table quality: choose your rooms, your buy-ins and your time slots based on the fish/reg ratio.
• Pillar 3 · skill: improve technically, reduce your leaks, gain precision both preflop and postflop.

As a Spin player, you'll aim to push this number from 0 to €30, €40, maybe €50/h as you progress. Reaching €50/h in Effective EV Profit would be a huge achievement.

The Stats tab complements the 4 main KPIs with 4 other indicators. Three of them (ITM, Play time, ROI) are mostly secondary indicators. The fourth, Profit/hour in Effective EV Profit, is quite simply the most important metric in the tracker for a Spin player.