Do I calculate my decisions?
This is a very good question! My answer is absolutely. I have logged how many times I have bet each specific hand such as AK suited and AK not. I have logged carefully when (early, late, cutoff, button, small blind and big) I bet each hand. I logged when I won in each position and when I lost. I looked at both the % won in each position and the overall win % over all positions. Out of 5200 hands seen, I won 242 out of 449. I just setup an Excel Vlookup table. The lookup has each specific hand I have bet in one column, the number times won in the next column, the number times lost in the next, the % won in a third column (3 columns for each of the five table positions won/loss = 15 columns + card column). In the 17th column, I setup the total times bet each hand. In the 18th column, I setup the number of times bet and won. In the 19th column and final column, I setup the total % won for each hand.
Now comes the best part. On a second worksheet, I setup the vlookup formula and referenced an input box. When I get a hand such as KQS, I type in AKS and the vlookup gives me the % won overall with that hand as well as the % won in each position. Bam! Just like that. I update my table after almost each tournament. It is a lot of work. Takes time and accuracy. But in the end, it has place me in the top 10% almost always, just recently 2nd in a tournament of nearly 550 people. Of course, I have lost some but, the accuracy is amazing and has kept me from making bad moves when they look good, such as one recent hand was AJO which I found I was not having luck with, even though I thought I was.
Good luck at the tables everybody!