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How to Post a Hand for Analysis
Click the "New Hand" button found at the top left of the Cash Game Hand Analysis forum:
Here are some simple, basic rules for posting in the Hand Analysis forums. Following these rules will help you get the maximum amount of engagement and advice in your threads.
1. Provide a descriptive title. For members of the forum, it's a lot easier to decide whether to read a thread if it's obvious what the thread is about.
Here are some descriptive titles:
"KQ hits 2-pair on Turn, villain shoves. My move?"
"QQ vs. Preflop Reraise"
"Second nut low, nut flush draw vs. crazy 3-way flop action"
"Fold AA on this coordinated board?"
Here are some useless titles:
"OMG what a donk"
"Should I have folded here?"
"Was this play okay?"
2. There are some simple fields in the form that you need to enter that indicate what the game format is. These are automatically set up as a prefix to your thread title (i.e., "25NL Hold'em: QQ vs Preflop Raise"), so there's no need to add the game format to your title.
3. Use our hand converter. Unconverted hand histories are much more difficult to read than converted hand histories. In addition, unconverted hands imply but don't state what the pot size is on each street - hand converters automatically display that important piece of information. Plus ours has a cool replayer feature.
4. Provide any available information about table dynamics and villain tendencies in the opening post. These things are as important as your cards to good hand analysis.
5. Do NOT indicate what the outcome of the hand is, especially in the opening post. This is a truly irrelevant piece of information, since it's an unknown variable when you acted throughout the hand. It also biases the analysis; if I know that you got sucked out on the river, I may not think clearly about what your action should have been on the flop.
6. Do NOT post brags and bad beats in Hand Analysis. Post those in the Brags, Beats, and Challenges forum. Believe me, we feel for you, we sympathize, we've been there, we're happy for you, you're an awesome player - but that's not relevant to hand analysis.
7. Do NOT post in Hand Analysis for the sake of posting. If you're commenting in a thread, try to have something to contribute, whether it's proposing a solution, an amplification of a point someone else has already made, or a question about the analysis. Posting "Ditto" for the sake of a post is incredibly annoying, as well as "call", "shove", "fold" with no explanation. These types of posts will be deleted, so don't waste our time or yours.
8. Read the entire thread. Some threads are too long to make this practical every time, but it's rare for this to be the case in Hand Analysis. If someone has already made the point you're making, don't make the same point again unless you're extending the point already made. If the point you're about to make is at odds with another post in the thread, take that other post into account in making your post.
9. Do NOT resurrect old threads unless there's a real reason to do so.
It is imperative that posts in this forum be in good English and are easy to ready and understand. Posts in poor English will be deleted.
Click the "New Hand" button found at the top left of the Cash Game Hand Analysis forum:
Here are some simple, basic rules for posting in the Hand Analysis forums. Following these rules will help you get the maximum amount of engagement and advice in your threads.
1. Provide a descriptive title. For members of the forum, it's a lot easier to decide whether to read a thread if it's obvious what the thread is about.
Here are some descriptive titles:
"KQ hits 2-pair on Turn, villain shoves. My move?"
"QQ vs. Preflop Reraise"
"Second nut low, nut flush draw vs. crazy 3-way flop action"
"Fold AA on this coordinated board?"
Here are some useless titles:
"OMG what a donk"
"Should I have folded here?"
"Was this play okay?"
2. There are some simple fields in the form that you need to enter that indicate what the game format is. These are automatically set up as a prefix to your thread title (i.e., "25NL Hold'em: QQ vs Preflop Raise"), so there's no need to add the game format to your title.
3. Use our hand converter. Unconverted hand histories are much more difficult to read than converted hand histories. In addition, unconverted hands imply but don't state what the pot size is on each street - hand converters automatically display that important piece of information. Plus ours has a cool replayer feature.
4. Provide any available information about table dynamics and villain tendencies in the opening post. These things are as important as your cards to good hand analysis.
5. Do NOT indicate what the outcome of the hand is, especially in the opening post. This is a truly irrelevant piece of information, since it's an unknown variable when you acted throughout the hand. It also biases the analysis; if I know that you got sucked out on the river, I may not think clearly about what your action should have been on the flop.
6. Do NOT post brags and bad beats in Hand Analysis. Post those in the Brags, Beats, and Challenges forum. Believe me, we feel for you, we sympathize, we've been there, we're happy for you, you're an awesome player - but that's not relevant to hand analysis.
7. Do NOT post in Hand Analysis for the sake of posting. If you're commenting in a thread, try to have something to contribute, whether it's proposing a solution, an amplification of a point someone else has already made, or a question about the analysis. Posting "Ditto" for the sake of a post is incredibly annoying, as well as "call", "shove", "fold" with no explanation. These types of posts will be deleted, so don't waste our time or yours.
8. Read the entire thread. Some threads are too long to make this practical every time, but it's rare for this to be the case in Hand Analysis. If someone has already made the point you're making, don't make the same point again unless you're extending the point already made. If the point you're about to make is at odds with another post in the thread, take that other post into account in making your post.
9. Do NOT resurrect old threads unless there's a real reason to do so.
It is imperative that posts in this forum be in good English and are easy to ready and understand. Posts in poor English will be deleted.
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