Global Sports: Online Poker Tips - How to Continue To Use HEM to Review Your Hand Histories

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Online Poker Tips - How to Continue To Use HEM to Review Your Hand Histories

By Jack P Ryan


All the quality players try to figure out poker away from the game. That is how they constantly beat the games they're playing. Self Study through hand history analysis will make sure that your game does not begin to deteroriate, will help spot gaffes, and will help you spot leaks in your rival's games. It is by far the most efficient work you can do away from the poker tables.



So before it's possible to start doing hand history analysis it is important to purchase a piece of software called Holdem Manager (before you say to oneself, here's some promotional waffle about Hold 'em Manager, please let it be known I am in no way affiliated with this product. I wish That I was because I like it).

Hold'em Manager is a poker tracking software which keeps track of each hand you play on line. It allows you to then analyse all those hands and replay them employing a hand replayer and give statistics breakdowns of equity and pot chances in those hands. It allows you to study your opponents as well as your own play. It has revolutionized on line poker. It costs between $50-$80 depending on whether you buy the professional or beginner package, however it is definitely worth the money.

To begin your hand history review, you can filter on a reports tab in Holdem Manager and input all hands played after a certain time period, say over a 2 month period. You can then filter all of your hands from biggest pots lost to won.

Then start a spreadsheet or simply use a refill pad and note how you lost every large pot over 30 big blinds. I assure you even with limited awareness of poker, when you go back over a hand in a replayer you'll spot the obvious mistakes easily. Note what the blunder was and move on to a new big pot you lost and repeat it.

Once you've done this you can start to group the howlers. You will start to see a pattern of where you are making similar mistakes time after time again. In my last big hand history review after a downswing I had 9 mistakes I saw taking place way too often for my liking. I then put this on a word document and printed it out and read this sheet before I sat down to play a session over the next month. At the end of the month I reviewed my hands played that month and put a line through the bad plays I had removed from my game and highlighted the ones that still stayed. I had the list reduced to one and since that point I have cut out that mistake from my game and I'm currently on a upward swing and very happy with my game.

I do really believe that once a month you must review all your hand histories of all large pots over 30 big blinds which you either won or lost to keep away those pesky downswings and your game fresh. I am hoping you enjoyed this simple but effective online poker tips advice.




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