Nice post, I just started with PokerOffice5. This gave me some things to think about, thank you.

I take all my notes right in pokerstars. But I play Husng. So buyins and things like that aren't important. Plus I'm definitely not gonna be punching a screen name in to an offline database every game I play. CRAZY lol


No, thank you.

nice post !
I like the few additions too.
I use Holdem manager HUD and it helps too with things like "bet vs missed cbet" (villain agressive on turn vs missed cbet can be trapped) and more exact 3 betting, calling OOP, fold to cbet, wsd and other stats.
I found, with great surprise, that the perception that I had of a player was not always reflected by the numbers and I was often under a false impression...Has it happenned to others than me?
Also Holdem manager alows you to take notes when u review the game afterwards in your replayer and then have them appearing directly in the HUD next time! This is GOLD.

I think on a previous post re.note taking someone mention a handy little trick: "??" after an annotation when u suspect something. "?" when u are pretty sure and nothing when u are sure. I found it quite useful. for instance :" play draw passively ?? " the first time :" play draw passively ?" the second time and :" play draw passively " when it is confirmed

Can we have this as a sticky, Chicagory?

great post. I Would find number 7 and 9 the most difficult to do while playing.

I also try and take notes on the following:
C betting tendencies
How many tables they are playing
Whether or not they undertsand board textures

Yeah that's actually a pretty smart idea.

I also don't know if I mentioned that whenever I cite a specific action I always put in parenthesis afterwards what blind level was at.
eg.
called 20 BB allin with T9o (15/30)

that's from one of my videos

but it's more like:

?? = assumption, i haven't seen villain do it but i'm pretty sure it's what he is doing.

? = seen villain take X line, but not 100% sure what he is thinking or if it's representative of his standard play

no question mark = solid read

I saw a video somewhere (not you) where the range was from ?? to !!, where adding exclamation points confirmed the solidity of a read.

lol nice, eg, what hand do you have?

in all seriousness,good post

bump for sticky pls

I didn't know u were doing videos...
But, yes, much better written. I do apologize for my poor english

As I stated earlier in this thread, rereading OP was quite refreshing.

Very nice post.

I have a problem because my notes often get very long. This may come from me playing a lot of donks, but I take notes of the flops that they lead or c/r until I see a hand of them and then I write down almost every hand where they do dumb things. I don't know if this is that bad, but when I meet them again I need like the first 10 hands to read all notes I've taken of them. Good thing is that I can often remember the hands and some parts of the game.

had a few people ask me to bump this. any new additions?

holy **** i thought this was a new post, saw french_kido quoted, was all but now im just