How To Learn From Your Poker Mistakes

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Write Down Lessons Learned

Recording lessons learned is why your poker journal is essential. If you have a Eureka! moment when you are playing, you would like to write it down and be sure you incorporate it into your game. For instance, if you limp in a multi-way pot, which is checked around post flop, can you bluff in the pot or not? Your experience may reveal that building a bluff at most pots with multiple limpers won't work. You'll be called 80% of the time. This is important to include into the game. So you wish to make a note to yourself in your journal. The key this is to reduce mistakes within your game, at your stakes where you play, also to increase your possibilities to win.

The point is that you simply can't learn everything you Don't Record. If you think you'll remember something because it seems important now, you're wrong. You have to record it. And you have to periodically review everything you've written down to be sure you're using it.

You need to look for your computer as being a "work" station if you play poker. Make a place that puts you in a very poker playing mindset. Have your starting hand charts nearby. Post essential things to remember in 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 all situations. So I'm constantly popping through hands and decisions like I get paid for making the fastest decision possible. That, naturally, isn't true. I get covered making the BEST decision possible. So, I remind myself of this.

Constantly switching your environment with reminders, posts, key thoughts, etc. is quite positive. Additionally you need some basic tools for your disposal. What are they? I have starting hand charts that I use for various situations. I have my poker journal. I have special sheets that I print as much as record how hands or sessions went. I'll record notes during sessions. It all just is determined by precisely what is "bothering" me or what opportunities I think I see and wish to document.

This process 's all dependent on concentrating on what you're doing - which is PLAYING POKER FOR PROFITS.

If you're wanting to watch TV, have conversations, read email, make posts in forums, lookup some celebrities digital skirt, or anything else you happen to be not focused. Everything you do in order to develop, maintain and reinforce focus is going to make serious cash long-term. While all you accomplish that distracts degrades and reduces focus turns you right into a worse and worse long-term permainan poker player.

As you play make sure you note down lessons learned. If you don't write them you will not remember them. Plus keep those lessons nearby in charts, notes, your journal or sticky notes.