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Notes
What sort of notes do you keep on people? I do try to keep notes, but I often find that they lose meaning to me once the situation that spawned the note is lost from memory.
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"monkey"
"elephant"
"goose"
"giraffe"
etc. All my notes are in animal shortform.
Monkey - plays a bit funky?
Goose - a bit loose?
Elephant - Super tight
Donk - Donkey/Fish
Giraffe - Maniac having a laugh...
For instance, I might see once that someone limped 78s UTG but for all I know, he was on tilt this once or that's what he does all the time, or he just wanted to mix up his play.
Or I see someone slowplay a flush but normally he bets big when he makes a straight or flush but was just mixing it up. And I can't help but think it's gonna take a really long time before I bump into them again and can take more notes and see if I can confirm my first lot of notes or not.
what poker animal are you ?
Maybe we should start a new thread )
You can write loads of notes on bad players without seeing their hands. Write down important bits of information and trust those notes until theyre proved wrong rather than saying one hand of information isnt enough to go on.
For example. If a bad player leads into me and i raise and they fold i can take a note saying they donkbet/fold with weak hands. I wil then trust that note until i see something to make me doubt it. Rarely do i have to adjust notes on fish. Now i know i can raise everytime he donkbets and that can prove valuable. Same if someone leads out with a strong hand. Bad palyers never balance their ranges so if someone leads out with a set into me i can safely assume they always lead with their strong/made hands because that is their strategy. That allows me to fold marginal hands like weak top pair or something and not worry about it.
If someone bets pot or minraises in any situation take note of what they had. When people adjust their betsizing like that its usually a big tell.
IF someone instacalls a 335 flop then folds to a turn bet when a 2 hits you can safely assume they call quickly with air or drawing hands, trying to put you off betting again, and you can note to double barrell turns against them because they float flops with no hand.
if someone calls your 3bet and instafolds flop you can take note to 3bet them more because they called with a weak hand and just gave up as soon as they didnt hit.
Theres information in most of the hands you play. At the lower limits people have a style of play and they stick to it, dont be afraid to jump to conclusions and stick to them, its better to go on what little information you have rather than no info.
They do the same thing over and over again, so there is so much information to be had.
Observe and make notes when hands go to showdown.
I use a system where if someone does something bad I scale it from 1-10
The more times I see em doing it then the higher the number is, giving me an idea how solid my read is
when I am in a hand with them.
how many aardvark's are now going in my notes...
Thoughts? Is it normal at 10NL?
I reckon its play but i dont really understand it, would be nice to know
PM me if you want offy please im intrigued i dont really play you enough to effect this being -EV