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Balance between play and study. Balance between play and study.

10-05-2008 , 11:27 AM
How much time do you spend studying your game?

What percentage of your hands do you study?

I guess I'm trying to find an optimal spot between playing to gain experience and maximizing that experience my looking at the mistakes I make.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
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10-05-2008 , 11:30 AM
Try atleast 3 hours a day for atleast 5 days a week. Try spending about half your time on playing and about half of your time on training. The balance should not go higher than 60% for each I think, not sure though. Your balance depends on your play style, I like 50/50. After a session I look in PokerTracker 3 for my hands for that session. I sort them by the amount won, and look at some of the highest and lowest hands. I'm not sure how long this takes, not a huge amount of time. Review your stats and post 1-2 hands after most long enough sessions. Try this...

Daily Texas Hold'em activities
2:30 Playing/Reviewing/Posting
1:00 Books/videos/articles
1:30 Forums
5:00 Total daily time for Texas Hold'em(Mostly skip tv/news/blogs/mags/webcasts)
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10-05-2008 , 02:45 PM
There was an earlier thread where this question was asked, and the answers regarding study time ranged from 10% to 50%.

I don't have any kind of a regular schedule, so what I did is set up a Poker Hours spreadsheet with three columns: Playing, Study, and Administrative (recordkeeping, messing with PokerTracker settings, etc.). I keep the time in quarter hours.

A session might be 15 minutes of Study (currently either reading HOH2 or on 2+2). It might be 30 minites of administrative (closing out my monthly spreadsheets). Or it might be a combination: 15 minutes on 2+2, followed by two hours of play, then an hour of reading HOH, then another hour of playing, for a total of 4.25 hours.

Since I don't have a regular schedule, I can look at the running weekly and monthly totals, which keeps me honest about how I'm using my time.
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