In game note taking

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Right this might sound very straight forward and idiotic but... When your taking in game notes on players how do you take what you know about a player into note form.

When i'm taking notes on a player i tend to waffle on and have a paragraph of short texts that i now need to scroll through.

Just wondering how other players take notes and what specifically they look out for.

Again, I know this is a very simple thing and I probably sound stupid :)
 
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The best advice I can give is to try and give notes that will help you identify ranges , so if someone makes a jam with a certain stack size, or someone opens in EP and you reach a showdown etc . I also will obv note the spazz moments of some players . Tendencies is also an ok thing to note imo like TAG, LAG, Passive , etc . GL hope this helps
 
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I'm assuming you're not using a HUD or you're playing on Bovada? Otherwise let the HUD help inform you of ranges and use the notes to record unusual tendencies.

Things I note when I don't have a HUD: how often they open in early late middle positions. how often they cbet. do they slowplay? if they are a limper, what do they do when raised preflop? leaks/errors in their post flop play such as "overvalues top pair" "bets huge with bluffs".

a typical note when I also have HUD stats might read something like this: "Limpy-cally. overvalues top pair. calls cbets with no pair no draw. tiny min raise on river with nuts. semibluff jam 2x pot on flop. chases with bad odds. flatted river with 2nd nuts"
 
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Almost in all of my notes that I write there are the type of playstyle the player is playing, like tight, aggressive, TAG, loose, passive, sometimes I look up a player on sharkscope and write wether he/she is a fish or a shark at the tables. Also, the probability of the player stealing blinds and defending big blind.
 
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Short, quick, and choppy:

"fired all 3 barrels with nothing"

"all-in on 72, got lucky set"

"calls bb with any hand"

"folds cbet unless the flop hit"
 
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usually I write down style of play, line drawing and non-standard behavior in different situations
 
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Thanks guys been a lot of helpful replies :)
 
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Always take notes against the constant raiser,their raise amount related to starting hand and you will know how to react based on your hole card.
 
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I have some notes likes this "this one pays a lot of flops, but normally he folds in the turn" "catched in bluff betting 3 streets more than 60 & of the pot" "shove alot of big blinds with KQ, KJ" but each player have one different normally
 
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Jason Summerville tends to just note when players make weird plays. So that's what I do generally, just note when people play too many / crazy pushes. I try to believe pushes and have to feel I'll have equity against a premium hand so I like to know people who shove/buff in odd spots with 9-10s or worse and they aren't desperately short or something.

I probably should tag more, but I don't tend to watch enough.
 
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