The Importance of Results Tracking
Estimates suggest that no more than ten percent of poker players are long-term winners. How can you, as a Texas hold’em player, get to count yourself among that lucky few? It takes more than a desire to win; many players have that. To be a long-term winner at Texas hold’em you must have skill, determination, focus and the ability to utilize all the tools at your disposal. One of those tools is results tracking.
What Is Results Tracking?
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Results tracking means keeping track of your poker results over time. Many poker professionals suggest that your poker life should not be thought of as a bunch of different poker sessions, but rather one long session with breaks in between. Any player, no matter how poorly they play, can be a winner over a specific four-hour period. It takes a skilled, disciplined player to be a winner over four months or four years.
How Does Results Tracking Work?
How you track your results will depend on your individual preferences. Some players will simply keep a journal with the date of the session, the amount of money they started with and the amount they ended with. Others may make a graph charting their progress over time. Some will break it down to how much money they are winning or losing each hour both for the individual sessions and for all sessions combined. Anything that will give you a clearer picture of how your poker results are progressing than you can get from one individual session can be a good method of results tracking.
There are also many useful programs on the web that can help you to improve your game. Today’s tracking programs can give you answers to all your questions. Not only how much you won or lost in a session, but also what starting hands you win or lose with, if you always lose focus on the game after, say, three hours, what positions that are most profitable. Just about anything you need to know to become a winning poker player.
How Will Results Tracking Help You?
You may be surprised to learn that you are not as good or as bad as you think you are. Most of us tend to focus on our winning sessions and forget the extent of our losing ones. Some people who think they are particularly “unlucky” and lose every time may subconsciously omit that one session last month where they could do no wrong. Keeping accurate records of your results will give you an analysis of your play that your psychological biases will not let you deny.
Another benefit of results tracking is it makes it easier for you to change an aspect of your game to see the result. Let’s say you decide to play tighter, making a conscious effort to get your number of flops seen out of the blinds down from 40 percent to 30 percent. You can compare the three months of tight play with the previous three months and learn instantly whether your game adjustment has worked. Using results tracking in ways like this is almost certain to push you towards the winning side of the poker scale.
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