What's Your System For Taking Player Notes Online? | Ask A Poker Pro — Transcript

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1. 0:00For me, I think it's essential to be
2. 0:01making notes when we're playing in
3. 0:02online poker tournaments cuz we've all
4. 0:04got the same note-making ability. You
5. 0:06can just double-click on their name, you
6. 0:07type a note out, color code them.
7. 0:09Everyone can do it, and they're
8. 0:10definitely making notes about you, and
9. 0:11we definitely need to be doing back to
10. 0:13them.
11. 0:24So, in terms of taking notes online, um
12. 0:26I use labels. So, I have like the the
13. 0:28six colors that Ace Poker provides. I
14. 0:31think it's six. Um and they all denote a
15. 0:33player type. And if I see something
16. 0:35particularly noteworthy, I'll um
17. 0:38I'll make a note in the note system
18. 0:39there, write down doesn't like to fold
19. 0:42or likes to put in lots of money, things
20. 0:44like this. So, if there's anything
21. 0:45that's particularly interesting that
22. 0:46doesn't get covered by a color, I'll
23. 0:48write down.
24. 0:49So, for taking notes online, I've
25. 0:50developed a shorthand to make it easier.
26. 0:53Because all the time you're trying to
27. 0:54type out a note on someone is time when
28. 0:57you probably rather be focusing on the
29. 0:59other tables cuz I often have like 10
30. 1:00tables open at the same time when I'm
31. 1:02playing online. So, having shorthand
32. 1:04makes typing out my notes much quicker.
33. 1:07So, I have things like CC for cold call
34. 1:09or 3B for three bets. Just little things
35. 1:11like that make things a little quicker
36. 1:13for taking the notes, and that frees up
37. 1:15more time for everything else you've got
38. 1:17to do while you're in the middle of a
39. 1:18session.
40. 1:18When I tag players online and I make
41. 1:21some notes, I will try to summarize an
42. 1:26interesting play. For example, should
43. 1:29have bluffed here and
44. 1:31didn't, so probably someone who is more
45. 1:34on the passive side. Or played every
46. 1:37single hand when it shouldn't, so it's
47. 1:39probably someone who is just VPIP'ing
48. 1:40too much. So, I will try to get a little
49. 1:43bit of their profile, but I try not to
50. 1:46be just too certain and base every
51. 1:50future play that I will have against
52. 1:52that player on the notes.
53. 1:53Early stages of tournaments, I I really
54. 1:55tend to do a lot of making notes and
55. 1:58things like that. Usually because I have
56. 1:59a lot of tables and it's just too
57. 2:00time-consuming. But towards the end of
58. 2:02the session, if I'm down to sort of like
59. 2:04the final two tables, I am just
60. 2:06viciously taking notes. I'm watching the
61. 2:07other table on all the players so that
62. 2:09when I get to the final table, I'm the
63. 2:11best prepared I can be
64. 2:13to play versus all the players who are
65. 2:14left in the tournament.
66. 2:15The other thing I use for online note
67. 2:17taking is the color coding system. Green
68. 2:20might mean recreational, yellow might
69. 2:22mean maniac, blue might mean good reg.
70. 2:25Things like that help you quickly
71. 2:26identify what kind of opponent you're up
72. 2:28against at this at any one time.
73. 2:30Normally, what I do to take notes online
74. 2:33is I just see how the opponent behave
75. 2:35and if they do something that I think is
76. 2:38good to have, I just write what they did
77. 2:42so that could help me to to make a
78. 2:44decision in the future. For example, if
79. 2:47a player open a hand that I think it
80. 2:49shouldn't be open in that position, I
81. 2:53try to write that that player is
82. 2:55raising a hand with that hand in that
83. 2:58position.
84. 2:59When it comes to actually making notes
85. 3:00on players, first of all, it's all down
86. 3:02to the color coding for me.
87. 3:03Red,
88. 3:04not so good player.
89. 3:06Green, good player. Blue, for an
90. 3:09absolute god.
91. 3:11Purple, a friend of my stream just so I
92. 3:15know they might be watching. I don't use
93. 3:17particular
94. 3:18like shorthand method or anything like
95. 3:20that. I'll just write down examples of
96. 3:23what they've done. Like if they've done
97. 3:24something especially bad, I'll write
98. 3:25down what it was. Player limped ace two
99. 3:28off under the gun, then called 50 blind
100. 3:30all in. I'll just write down just
101. 3:33a short note like that just so I get an
102. 3:34idea of what kind of player I'm dealing
103. 3:36with.
104. 3:37Also, players evolve from years to
105. 3:40years. So, maybe someone who I thought
106. 3:43was too passive in the past nowadays is
107. 3:44no longer so passive. So, I mark down
108. 3:48plays, but I keep an open mind that it's
109. 3:51just maybe
110. 3:52a little piece of information, but I
111. 3:54won't base all my decisions on that.