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Fine-tuning Your Poker Play
If you are going to try to play poker like a professional, you must be committed to treating it like a serious endeavor. By that, we mean you must do your homework, take notes on your poker sessions, and identify weaknesses in your game so that you can work to fix them.
The best weapon in the continual fine tuning of your play is to take very good notes on your play. Particularly, you should be documenting hands where you either win a lot OR lose a lot. By studying hands where you win big, you will be more likely to identify and take advantage of similar situations.
More importantly, by identifying hands where you LOSE money, you will begin to identify ways in which you can tighten up your game. When taking notes on these hands, you want to identify your position, how the action unfolded, and how much you ultimately lost. After reviewing these hands, sometimes you will come to the conclusion that you played the hand the best way that you could. However, other times you will you will come to the conclusion that playing the hand differently would have been correct.
There is a software tool available that can track most the hand histories for many of the poker sites out there. It's called Poker Tracker, and it includes a database of all hand histories which you configure it to import. It contains an amazingly useful group of statistics that help you identify which hands are your most (or least) profitable.
Hold'em Nation HIGHLY recommends investing in this software. The software is free to download and try, but requires a registration in order to import more than 1,000 hands.
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