Taking notes

I tend to have a really good memory so I rarely use the notes option when I play. I am the same with live as far as memory, I never forget a face/style of play to go with it. I have actually bumped into people I have played with in public places (a Target store once) and remembered them as a calling station and nothing more about them. Didn't speak or even acknowledge them, just noticed them in the same store.

i hate to be this guy but i haven't taken a note in my life. to me the notes are a mechanism to jog your memory, but in alot of situations you notice these things anyway or the player adjusts his style to throw off the person paying close attention to them. don't get me wrong i think it is a beautiful concept for some poeple but it can't hold in most games. i can see notes being detrimental in a game you'll be playing the same ppl for a while, where you start to find a rythm, but once you find that rythm paper wont help. online is a memory game of quik desisions. and most ppl dont like to play the same way that wins them a hand.

poker is a game of gut feelings and the best paper will do is throw off your in place of pattern and if you can't trust your gut might as well give up poker

Mmm..bananas.

I think I've created a monster.

In tourneys i dont think many people take notes due to the amount of people who are going out all the time. Plus you always get moved table, so writing notes on most players at your table will probably waste your time, as your bound to get moved onto a new table of new players.

P.S Im not really a pear man. Give me a good Kiwi fruit or a punnet of strawberries and ill be happy.

While I don't bother taking notes online because I very seldom see the same players continually, I am wondering: is it acceptable to take notes while playing at a live table?

I've heard that many of the top players have folders full of notes on other players. This has got to be from memory. Could you imagine taking notes on Phil Helmuth at the table.

LMAO...If I ever got the oppurtunity (which I won't), I would do that just to wind him up. I don't dislike him, but I can't stand when he starts throwing his little fits...I can't stand sore losers and whiners....ah...that would be GREAT!

Tagging the players who haven't played very long...

Newbie
- player folded when they could have checked
- checked the nuts in late position on the river


I love to tag the idiot who thinks he owns the tourny and can muscle everyone off their hand with nothing

Loose - Aggressive
- raises often with over bets
- plays in almost every pot
- great player to double up on

...and then there is me...lol

The Rock
- beware
-usually has a decent hand and ALWAYS WINS!!!!!!

i note in specific players that check a missed flop, bet a missed flop. i note if a player will bluff with more than 2-3 people in the hand besides him. i note if players fold to minbets if they miss the flop. i note their semi-bluff raise amount. i note if they limp monsters. i note if they bet or check missed draws. i note if they call with almost any odds to chase any draw. i note how they act when they hit their draw. i note a range of pp's they raise with if i get to see enough.

like dorkus, i used to note styles but since i bought PT and use gametime+ it does it for me.

oh and by betting or checking a missed flop, i mean that as in a continuation bet or checking a missed flop with something like AK