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Keeping Track at the Poker Table - Strategy

1. Keep track of other players playing styles.

Keep brief player notes of your opponents. Write down if they are aggressive (someone who raises a lot), loose (someone who plays too many hands), tight (someone who only plays premium hands), calling station (someone that will call you with almost anything). Taking the time to complete this task will also allow you to have handy, exact notes of a person's previous play. This will be an easy reminder of their play when you next sit with them at a table. (Though you will always reevaluate the play of your opponents, and update information when appropriate.)

2. Play two games instead of one. Or, three when you are comfortable! Here is the reason this is a good idea for a new player. You will have certain starting hand requirements that will not allow you to play many hands. A new player may get bored sitting and waiting for just the right opportunity. You want your online poker experience to be a pleasurable, dynamic, and fun time. Play two tables and stay involved!

3. Keep daily records of your wins and losses. Your on-line poker experience will probably be a hobby, a part-time job, or a full-time profession. Under any scenario, you must be able to see at any moment, exactly how you are doing. Numbers do not lie. So, no matter how inconvenient
the task, no matter how much it hurts, no matter how unlikely the beat you suffered in the session, keep a record when you are finished. I suggest using a spreadsheet program of some sort. Many are included in the software packages that are bundled with your computer. You may decide to do nothing more than saving a tally sheet and that's okay, too. It doesn't matter-just utilize some accounting method, which will show you how you are doing.

 

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