The Value of Reviewing Hands After a Session

[FFinesser]

One habit that has helped me a lot is reviewing hands after I finish playing. While I’m at the table, it’s easy to move on quickly and forget the details, but looking back later lets me see if I made the right decisions.

Sometimes I realize I played a hand fine and just got unlucky, and other times I notice mistakes I didn’t catch in the moment. Either way, the review helps me improve step by step.

 

[hardongear]

Depending on how much I play each week I do weekly or bi-weekly hand reviews usually on Mondays/Tuesdays. I think reviewing and study ones hand history is pretty key to being a winning player. It's the only studying I've done for many years now and weekly/bi-weekly works for me. Any longer then that and I tend to forget what I was feeling and why I made decisions I did in the moment of the hand.

Cheers!!!

 

[fundiver199]

For cash game players it is important to look at the biggest pots, you won or lost, away from the table. But you also want to combine this with a more statistical approach, which is most easily done using a tracker to collect your hand histories. You want to evaluate, how overall passive or active you are in different situations, how you perform when calling on the river and so on and so forth. This is to find leaks, that dont result in losing a few massive pots but losing a bit of EV in lots of small pots, which tend to add up.

For SnGs it can make sense to use a program like ICMizer to analyse preflop push-fold spots to see, if you made significant mistakes. The way, I do this, is to combine the hands from all similar SnGs, I played a certain day, into a single file and then import it to ICMizer. Like maybe I played 5 18-man SnGs on pokerstars for a total of 371 hands. Then ICMizer will systematically look at all hands, where the effective stack was <20BB and list the hands with the biggest mistakes on top.

 

[steve01991]

i review the hands i figure i should have won and see what i could of done to be victorious!