Poker And Keeping Records Part3
4. How long did you play? This statistic is the actual time you spent at the table, in the game. Do not count that hour you went to lunch or all of your excessive short absences from the table. Make this entry in terms of quarter hours. If you can, narrow it down to tenths of an hour. The more accurate your records are, the more valid your results will be when you analyze them.
5. Calendar date. This one's always a number between 1 and 31 (some date from the first of the month to the thirty-first of the month). This will also be useful for later analysis.
6. Day of the week. M, T, W, R, F, S, U. R is for Thursday and U is for Sunday. As you'll see in the next chapter, this is a very important note to keep.
7. Time of day. Record the time that you started playing and the time that you quit playing. Keep this number separate from the total number of hours played in #4, above. They are very different statistics.
8. How much did you win or lose? Although this may be the bottom line number that you focus on after each playing session, it is by no means the only statistic of use to you.
9. Your win/loss converted into # of big bets. Experienced poker players talk about their wins and losses in terms of how many big bets they won or lost, because that's really the best way to communicate all of the relevant information. If someone tells you, "I won $200 playing poker the other night," he hasn't really told you as much as he could. You don't know if he was playing $l-$5 for two hours and was extremely lucky, or if he was playing $5-$ 10 for eight hours and won that $200 on just the last hand he played before leaving the game. Speaking in terms of big bets also makes it easier to compare how you're doing in different games at varying limits.
10. Hourly rate for this game. Divide your win or loss for this session by the number of hours you played. If you played eight hours and won $120, then your hourly rate would be a plus $ 15 per hour. If you were playing $3-$6 limit, this rate would convert to 2.5 big bets per hour.
11. Hourly rate for all games and totals. This calculation is the total of all the poker games you've played (regardless of the type of game or the limit) divided by the total number of hours you've played poker. You'll be mixing together all of your stud games with your hold 'em games, but, for the purposes of this statistic, it doesn't matter.
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Poker And Keeping Records Part2
In all my years of teaching the game, I've seen everything that a player will do to improve his game. The thing that stands out most is that the players who go on to become winners in the long run-that one player out of twenty-are the ones who kept records of their poker playing from the very beginning.
Learning any game and then practicing it until you become a master is very hard. It doesn't matter if it's chess, tennis, bridge, or poker. The process requires self-analysis, self-criticism, introspection, attention to detail, concentration, and, probably most importantly, the ability to be brutally honest with yourself and tolerate hearing unpleasant facts about yourself.
If you keep records of your poker sessions, you'll see that those brutally honest unpleasant facts about yourself that I'm talking about will come from the times that you lost at poker and then actually recorded your loss in your ledger. Players who are willing to do this are the ones who have what it takes to go on to be winners at hold 'em.
Now that you've decided you're going to be a hold em winner, what kind of records should you keep? You're limited only by your imagination and the time that you're willing to put into record-keeping. You can make them as detailed or as basic as you like. Here's a list of suggested categories to put in your poker records:
1. Where did you play? If you're lucky enough to have a choice of casino poker rooms near you, note the name and the street address of the one you visited.
2. What game did you play?TYiis could be Texas hold 'em, 7-Card Stud, Omaha, or any other poker game.
3. What limit did you play? Although many limits exist, you most likely will be entering something like $3-$6 or $l-$4-$8-$8, since you'll be playing at the beginning lower limits.
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