How To Learn From Your Poker Mistakes
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Write Down Lessons Learned
Recording lessons learned is the reason why your poker journal is essential. If you have a Eureka! moment while you are playing, you would like to write it down and be sure you incorporate it to your game. For instance, if you limp right into a multi-way pot, which is checked around post flop, would you bluff in the pot you aren't? Your experience may demonstrate that creating a bluff for the most part pots with multiple limpers won't work. You'll be called 80% almost daily. This is essential to feature into your game. So you want to remember to yourself in your journal. The key the following is to reduce mistakes with your game, for your stakes where you play, also to increase your the possiblility to win.
The point is basically that you can't learn that which you Don't Record. If you think you'll remember something even though it seems like important now, you're wrong. You need to record it. And you should periodically review what you've written down to ensure you use it.
You should look at your computer as being a "work" station when you play poker. Make a place that puts you inside a poker playing mindset. Have your starting hand charts nearby. Post important things to remember on your screen. On my screen I have, "PATIENCE" in black and "SLOW DOWN" in purple. Why? If I have one consistent issue it's that I know "too well" what I'm going to do next in most situations. So I'm constantly popping through hands and decisions like I get covered making the fastest decision possible. That, naturally, isn't true. I get covered making the BEST decision possible. So, I remind myself of that.
Constantly altering your environment with reminders, posts, key thoughts, etc. is quite positive. Additionally you take some basic tools for your disposal. What are they? I have starting hand charts that I use many different situations. I have my poker domino journal. I have special sheets that I print around record how hands or sessions went. I'll record notes during sessions. It all just depends on what is "bothering" me or what opportunities I think I see and wish to document.
This process is all reliant on concentrating on what you're doing - that is PLAYING POKER FOR PROFITS.
If you're attempting to watch TV, have conversations, read email, make posts in forums, search for some celebrities digital skirt, or some different then you're not focused. Everything you do today to develop, maintain and reinforce focus is going to make serious cash long-term. While everything you do this distracts degrades and reduces focus turns you in a worse and worse long-term poker player.
As you play make sure to note down lessons learned. If you don't write them you will not remember them. Plus keep those lessons readily available in charts, notes, your journal or sticky notes.
