How I learned to use memorized hole cards during my play:
- Create a routine
- Practice
- Repeat Step Two sometimes adjusting your routine.
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What do I?
I look at each card as delivered, I do this for hold'em as well (again routine.)
I say to myself, on the first card, "Ace" second, "King", then repeat. but with the suits, "Ace, King, diamond, heart", put a chip on my cards, repeat, "Ace, King, diamond, heart."
Then I look up, and put the cards in order:
2,3,7,T,J
and then the highest recurring suits:
three diamonds, two clubs
Repeat three times.
Then on every street, I say it again, 2,3,7,T,J, three diamonds, two clubs.
After thousands of hands and a few years, what I like to call a learning convergence happened:
It happened in stages:
I'd be playing a hand, and then just after realize, "Ah yes, there were three diamonds dead." This type of "after" thought started getting "closer" to the event, until it happened during the event, "There
are three diamonds dead." Then after that, it happened
before, meaning I could put them in play a bit stronger, "his range is limited here because three diamonds are dead".
And just kept practicing, over and over.