Updates and Note Taking (7/22/2011)
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 5:01PM Not much has changed in the down-swing department. At least I scrapped out a win last night around +$400. That’s a fine night, it just doesn’t seem like a lot because I lost so much earlier in the week. I’m just taking it one night at a time and remaining focused. This is an important weekend and I need to really put in some volume. I also need to never waste my time on a bad table.
I’ve been thinking about taking notes a lot today. I usually take notes during my live sessions. But sometimes I question if I’m wasting time. Or maybe I’m missing useful information as I’m taking the notes! Honestly I rarely look back at my notes while I’m playing a live session. Maybe once a month I’ll be playing an 8 hour session with the same guy and I might look back at notes once and be like “how out of line is his open PFR range again? Wait maybe if I can’t remember this I’m too tired and should just leave?” Then again I will often still take notes on fish I will never see again. I think the power of writing makes it “click” faster. As opposed to just mentally noting “he limp called the PFR isolation with K7o and stacked when the king hit”. If I write “Why are we limp calling K7o pre? Why are we stacking off when the king hits against a mega-nit? What the fuck is going on here? What year is it?” I think it makes it click more, just how poor of a player he is.
For me I think keeping some sort of live notes keeps me focused and makes me absorb information faster. It can also be a nice side exercise while I’m sitting there card-dead for 5 hours.
However, I think taking notes on the regulars is extremely important. This is something I’ve been neglecting during the past few months. Yeah I take notes about them for that session. But I have never made a serious effort to categorize my notes on regulars. This is something I’m going to start working on. I’m going to ramp up my effort on taking notes on every regular who dares to nut-peddle at my table.
I also want to categorize the notes. I’m going to start coming home and logging each player profile on a word document at home. Then I’m going to put it all on a website that only I have access to. Then I’m going to be able to pull up a regulars profile from my phone as I sit at any table in the city. It will be like my own live HUD. And the great thing is these regulars are rarely changing their game if ever. Notes from a year ago could still be extremely relevant. Remember they are only playing 4k hands at the most per month. This sort of task may sound daunting. But for me I can see it as fun. I’ve always liked pulling lots of raw data, categorizing it, and producing it into something meaningful. I was like this during school and even during my short professional career.
So a goal going forward for me will be to ramp up the collection and categorization of my notes on regulars. I’m going to take this seriously and see how it goes. If I feel it’s not worth it then I will back off or scrap the project. But I plan to be playing these stakes for a long time. I don’t see me busting out of 2/5 anytime soon, so I might as well make the most of it while I’m here. And I’m sick of seeing the same regs infesting my tables every week. I have to squeeze out that extra BB anyway possible, and I think this could be a good blueprint for some extra profit in the long-term.
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