How To Learn From Your Poker Mistakes

Write Down Lessons Learned

Recording lessons learned is the reason your poker journal is important. If you have a Eureka! moment while you're playing, you wish to write it down and ensure you incorporate it in your game. For instance, should you limp in to a multi-way pot, which is checked around post flop, would you bluff with the pot or otherwise not? Your experience may show that creating a bluff essentially pots with multiple limpers won't work. You'll be called 80% almost daily. This is vital to add in your game. So you need to make an observation to yourself in your journal. The key here is to lessen mistakes within your game, your stakes in places you play, also to increase your the opportunity to win.

The point is that you can't learn what you Don't Record. If you think you'll remember something because it seems like important now, you're wrong. You must jot it down. And you have to periodically review everything you've written down to ensure you use it.

You need to look your computer being a "work" station if you play poker. Make a place that puts you in the poker playing mindset. Have your starting hand charts nearby. Post considerations to keep in mind on your own 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 covered making the easiest decision possible. That, naturally, isn't true. I get taken care of making the BEST decision possible. So, I remind myself of this.

Constantly varying your environment with reminders, posts, key thoughts, etc. is extremely positive. Additionally you require some basic tools your disposal. What are they? I have starting hand charts that I use many different situations. I have my poker 99 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 what exactly is "bothering" me or what opportunities I think I see and want to document.

This process is just a few emphasizing 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 anything else you are not focused. Everything you do to develop, maintain and reinforce focus is going to make you lots of bucks long-term. While everything you do that distracts degrades and reduces focus turns you in to a worse and worse long-term poker player.

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