How To Learn From Your Poker Mistakes

Write Down Lessons Learned

Recording lessons learned is the reason your poker journal is very important. If you have a Eureka! moment while you're playing, you want to record it and make sure you incorporate it into your game. For instance, should you limp in to a multi-way pot, which is checked around post flop, does one bluff at the pot or otherwise not? Your experience may reveal that setting up a bluff essentially pots with multiple limpers won't work. You'll be called 80% of that time period. This is important to feature into your game. So you would like to make an observation to yourself with your journal. The key here is to cut back mistakes in your game, at your stakes where you play, also to increase your opportunities to win.

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

You need to look at your computer being a "work" station whenever you play poker. Make a place that puts you in a very poker playing mindset. Have your starting hand charts nearby. Post important things 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 paid for making the quickest decision possible. That, of course, isn't true. I get purchased making the BEST decision possible. So, I remind myself of that.

Constantly changing your environment with reminders, posts, key thoughts, etc. is very positive. Additionally you take some basic tools at the disposal. What are they? I have starting hand charts that I use many different situations. I have my poker journal. I have special sheets that I print up to record how hands or bandar ceme sessions went. I'll record notes during sessions. It all just depends upon precisely what is "bothering" me or what opportunities I think I see and want to document.

This process 's all just a few concentrating on whatever you're doing - that's PLAYING POKER FOR PROFITS.

If you're wanting to watch TV, have conversations, read email, make posts in forums, research some celebrities digital skirt, or anything else then you are not focused. Everything you caused by develop, maintain and reinforce focus is going to make you money 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 jot down lessons learned. If you don't write them you may not remember them. Plus keep those lessons readily available in charts, notes, your journal or sticky notes.