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Basically, how do you conduct your session reviews, how do you decide which hands you want to focus on, and how in-depth is your study of any particular hand? Any general advice or insights on session reviews would also be appreciated.
More specifically, I am beginning to undertake some serious session reviews. What I have decided is that I won't play another session until I am done reviewing all of the hands from a previous session. I am putting so much emphasis on reviewing my sessions, because I have found that--even though I play with the same players every day--there are only a handful of them whose "game" I know well enough to effectively strategize against. There are many other players that I have a couple of notes on, but I find that I have lost touch with what I was trying to convey in my notes. This is because the notes are out of context, and I was writing them on the fly. I have also found that HUD stats don't solve everything, for me. I likely am not completely adept at interpreting the stats, but I also think that reviewing my sessions more in-depth would help with that. I have thousands of hands on some players, yet I am still unable to decipher anything meaningful from my notes or stats on them.
With that decided, I was wondering exactly how in-depth other players get when doing their own session reviews. There is a particular Twitch streamer that I enjoy, and I am in the process of re-watching one of his reviews. During this review, he skipped over most of the hands that he pre-flop-folded, and he focused on hands that he felt he could have opened/played and hands that he did play but felt that he could improve on. On the other hand, I have heard this player state that one of the keys to playing poker well is to pay attention to the action when one is not involved in the hand. I'm going to leave this paragraph here, since I already typed it, and since someone may still have thoughts on this idea. I just realized that this streamer plays on Bovada, so there may not be the emphasis on specific players within a session review.
My concluding question is how do you decide which hands you want to focus on during a session review? I am personally trying to squeeze out every nugget of truth from every hand short of when the big blind gets a walk. Am I being too OCD?
More specifically, I am beginning to undertake some serious session reviews. What I have decided is that I won't play another session until I am done reviewing all of the hands from a previous session. I am putting so much emphasis on reviewing my sessions, because I have found that--even though I play with the same players every day--there are only a handful of them whose "game" I know well enough to effectively strategize against. There are many other players that I have a couple of notes on, but I find that I have lost touch with what I was trying to convey in my notes. This is because the notes are out of context, and I was writing them on the fly. I have also found that HUD stats don't solve everything, for me. I likely am not completely adept at interpreting the stats, but I also think that reviewing my sessions more in-depth would help with that. I have thousands of hands on some players, yet I am still unable to decipher anything meaningful from my notes or stats on them.
With that decided, I was wondering exactly how in-depth other players get when doing their own session reviews. There is a particular Twitch streamer that I enjoy, and I am in the process of re-watching one of his reviews. During this review, he skipped over most of the hands that he pre-flop-folded, and he focused on hands that he felt he could have opened/played and hands that he did play but felt that he could improve on. On the other hand, I have heard this player state that one of the keys to playing poker well is to pay attention to the action when one is not involved in the hand. I'm going to leave this paragraph here, since I already typed it, and since someone may still have thoughts on this idea. I just realized that this streamer plays on Bovada, so there may not be the emphasis on specific players within a session review.
My concluding question is how do you decide which hands you want to focus on during a session review? I am personally trying to squeeze out every nugget of truth from every hand short of when the big blind gets a walk. Am I being too OCD?