For a few months I tracked every VPIP hand. It's a PITA but eventually I built up enough data that I made a few tweaks to my game. Mostly quit l/c and cold calling. When I was forced to stare at 6 months worth of hands where I kept losing 5BB and rarely won more than 20BB with something like A6s, I finally could accept the advice we all get but don't always listen to.

example: A6s CO c12 4tf Kxx ftcb (pre call 12, 4 to the flop, board K with 2 rags, rainbow if I didn't list suits, fold to cbet). Hands that get to a river, esp when FD is involved, the notation looks messy to someone else, but you'll get used to it.

AKo MP 15 o2 3tf A73cc8Tc f30 HU t65 rch ng vs 33 translates as AK in MP, 15 over 2 limpers, 3 to the flop. Type out the whole board, then go with the action: I cebt 30, one caller, cbet turn for 65, ****er doesn't fold, river I ch, no good (vs mhig my hand is good) vs his set.

Do you guys track reg tendencies? If you do how do you, do you have any tips to identifying them? I do not know or would rememer everyone's name and I don't play that often so sometimes this is tricky for me.

sw_emigre I like your notation I might start incorporating that.

Damn, praise from a legend, made my day.

Only other things I can think that I do that would be useful is c12+1, meaning that there was a caller after OR and I overcalled; l/15 means I limped then called; 45 o12+1 would be a 3! to 45 over 12 plus a caller; cstr is call straddle, and lol is limp over limper (as well as a statement on my play), or lo4 meaning limp over 4 limpers. Something I had way too much of back in the day would be c12/f or c12/35, obv means I called a raise and then folded or called a second time to a 3!.

Back to OP, here's a COTM that is waaaaaay tl;dr, but if you spend the time with it, I think it's great: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...lysis-1557357/ I pretty much went with their plan: I took notes for a few months, then broke all the data down by category. (I started as an online player so I wanted my Excel to serve me the way HEM does.)

100% of my note taking has to do with building player profiles, as I play in a fairly reg invested room which has a constantly evolving cast of characters.

The PokerJournal app has a Players option where you can write up profiles on players and notes, plus 3 sliders (a loose vs tight slider, a passive vs aggro slider, and a third slider which I use for fish vs not fish). I'm assuming other apps have similar features.

It also takes me a while to learn names, so I typically identify the players as best I can be seeing if they remind me of someone (personally or famous), plus I write up as much distinguishing characteristics in my notes that would help identify them via a word search ("crooked index finger", "mole under right eye", "very busty and likes showing them off", etc.).

I've got opponents like "Asian John Cusack (Hoop Earring)", "Bill Murray's Brother (Moustache Bug Eyes)", "George Steele (The Animal)", "Hillbilly Adams Apple (Huck Seed)", "Kimbo Slice (Black Beard)", "Native Eric Estrada (Feathered Hair)", "Old Asian Fishlips (SpongeBob Dentist)", "Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Haggered)", etc. If I eventually find out there name, I update their profile.

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