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Message: [QUOTE="Jesus Lederer, post: 349640, member: 3283"] "Play the players, not the cards". This quote shows perfectly one of the most important skills at poker: playing according the situation. In poker sometimes you´re forced to make decisions with the same hand you held some hands ago, but why now you´re going to play it differently? The answer is because poker is a game of situations. There are a lot of factors that may vary your decision. These factor are, for example, position, stack size, opponent´s style, his betting patterns, etc. I want to stop in the last two. As you know, the styles are classified according two factors: the hand selection and how a player faces the betting rounds. According to the hand selection a player can be tight or loose, and accoding to betting styles a player can be passive or aggressive (of course a player can mix up all those styles). In relation to betting patterns, they are called as the "real tells". They are a very important part of the game because you can figure out what is the strenght of a player´s hand by just watching the amount of his bet compared to previous ones in similar situations. Having a good read of every player´s style and betting patterns it can really help you to make better decisions at the table, and the best way of having a read on each player is taking notes (in your mind, a paper or the notes available at every online poker software). Well, after that completely unnecessary introduction, lets go to the important part: the questions (please try to answer them all, because i need that information): 1) Do you take notes every time you play? 2) Do you write a note every time there is a showdown? 3) Do you take any notes if there isn´t a showdown? 4) What do you write in the notes? 5) Do you follow a specific order like watching first the styles and then betting patterns? 6) How many times a player has to make the same play to write a note about that play? 7) Anything else you want to add... p.s: i know that long time ago someone made a thread asking what do you write in your notes, but this time i want more detailed answers. [/QUOTE]

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