Poker SWOT Analysis ??

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What is your Poker SWOT Analysis?

I would like to know about your SWOT analysis and also what do you think about my SWOT analysis in terms of missing out or adding anything to make it better. I like to know where I stand and be on the right track.

SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you face.

Used in a business context, it helps you carve a sustainable niche in your market or personal context.

Strengths

-Good Position Play and hand selection
-Good style of Play E.g. TAG, LAG..
-Understanding Poker tells
-Poker Maths = odds and outs
-Good (Average) bankroll Management
-Helping and sharing
-Discipline
-Monitoring your table image
-Analysing hand range of an opponent.
-Good Live Player
-Good at spotting the fish
-Taking risks
-bluffing

Weakness

-Not enough patience (especially online)
-Ego and Tilt (sometimes)
-Fear of being bluffed by opponent
-Not enough Multi-tabling skills
-Getting back on track after a bad beat
-Heads up play
-Playing Omaha
-Middle stage of a tournament
-Playing OOP
-Lack of experience

Opportunities

-More discipline
-knowing your weaknesses and threats
-Playing more Live and online
-Setting up goals and tasks
-Mentor, coaching, group study and hand analysis

Threats

-Working full time
-Time Management and failing to commit to put more effort
-Not enough analysing your play
-Not enough practice

I would like to know what you think and see the difference with your SWOT.

Many Thanks :D
 
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I would like to add above:

Strength:
1. Hand analysis
2. Preflop and postflop play
3. Knows many tactics
4. Aware of long term strategies.
5. Healthy BR

Weakness:
1. Cant adjust to table dynamics.
2. Less awareness to BRM.
3. Limited BR

Opportunities:
1. Joining forum.
2. freerolls
3. Bonuses
4. Promotions

Threats:
1. Limited time.
2. Conflict of schedule
3. Other works
4. Other interests
 
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Cool idea. I dug around and there is actually a SWOT Poker App available. Looks cool, but no reviews yet, and it's $9.99.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to do a private SWOT.
 
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What is your Poker SWOT Analysis?

I would like to know about your SWOT analysis and also what do you think about my SWOT analysis in terms of missing out or adding anything to make it better. I like to know where I stand and be on the right track.

SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you face.

Used in a business context, it helps you carve a sustainable niche in your market or personal context.

Strengths

-Good Position Play and hand selection
-Good style of Play E.g. TAG, LAG..
-Understanding Poker tells
-Poker Maths = Odds and outs
-Good (Average) Bankroll Management
-Helping and sharing
-Discipline
-Monitoring your table image
-Analysing hand range of an opponent.
-Good Live Player
-Good at spotting the fish
-Taking risks
-Bluffing

Weakness

-Not enough patience (especially online)
-Ego and Tilt (sometimes)
-Fear of being bluffed by opponent
-Not enough Multi-tabling skills
-Getting back on track after a bad beat
-Heads up play
-Playing Omaha
-Middle stage of a tournament
-Playing OOP
-Lack of experience

Opportunities

-More discipline
-knowing your weaknesses and threats
-Playing more Live and online
-Setting up goals and tasks
-Mentor, coaching, group study and hand analysis

Threats

-Working full time
-Time Management and failing to commit to put more effort
-Not enough analysing your play
-Not enough practice

I would like to know what you think and see the difference with your SWOT.

Many Thanks :D

Weakness - playing Omaha ? why Buddy it is a weakness ?
threats - working fulltime ? it s not threat , but actually oppertunity to Play any game more freely without worrying about getting bust before Money.

Rest agreed with you Buddy.. and thanks a lott for sharing with us... i will do my swot Analysis then
 
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Thanks a lot for your oppinions guys..

@Veltins ..I put down full time working cos I thought it could stop or slow down from studying the technical side of the game! also in terms of commitment that its a threat, which needs to be considered wisely for time management..would you agree?

Thanks again
 
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Applying SWOT to poker

You're right. Businesses have been using SWOT since the 1960s. However, most companies use it for Strategic, not Tactical direction. i.e. They don't know how to apply SWOT for day-to-day operations. They'll do a SWOT analysis once and then they put their analysis in the drawer because they can't apply what they analyzed. Unfortunately, metrics you came up here might help you reflect on your game today, but don't really help you over time or measure your performance.

I've been using an app for over a year called SWOT Poker (swotpoker.com) that helps you journal and log your key SWOT metrics for daily/session use. It's like Poker Journal, but on a much higher level, allowing you to track behavioral & environmental conditions which make you successful or unsuccessful.

Consider:
Strengths and Weaknesses are controllable (these are your Performance factors). Opportunities and Threats are somewhat uncontrollable, like tight players, stack sizes, experienced competitors, fish/donkeys @ table, etc (these are your Environment factors). If you had a winning session, did you play well or was your environment favorable? If you lost, was it a cooler or did you get outplayed? Tracking only cashflow is giving you half the info you need to improve. You have to track WHY you won or lost and learn from it.

SWOT poker app allows you to track every session you play and rate yourself and your environment across ~20 metrics. Then use the reports to show performance data, not only in your skills, but also in your environment.

I've been using it for quite some time and it not only helps me reinforce the fundamentals, but it helps me self-reflect on my session, and correlate Performance and Environment factors over time to wins and losses.

Good luck
 
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