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Message: [QUOTE="josh_dei8, post: 940022, member: 25251"] I'm not real good at taking player notes an I don't get to play enough on [COLOR=#555555]Full Tilt[/COLOR] or [COLOR=#555555]Pokerstars [/COLOR]to get a strong enough read on players at my table. The notes I do make are usually to long or lots of gibberish. Using Some of Phil Helmuth's defining our styles and something I found on mzonereport, I've put together something that hopefully can be helpful to many. Full [COLOR=#555555]Tilt[/COLOR] uses color codes when taking player notes. Using these colors and applying each color to an animal playing syle, you will quickly know what each player is without reading through all your notes. Pokerstars doesn't use color for notes, but you can just list the animal name in your notes to keep it simple. Here are the animals, with suggested color codes and a brief description of each style. [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289bluemouse.jpg[/IMG] book player, tight, plays little pots comes out fighting with cheese [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289greenelephant.jpg[/IMG] passive,plays too many hands calls often, reraise much less hard to bluff, flush & Ace masters [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289orangelion.jpg[/IMG] tricky, knows position play & odds experience, mixes it up online semi pro, aggressive post flop [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289yellowjackyl.jpg[/IMG] maniac player, raises with lots of hands little regard for position, pressure plays creates victims [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289redeagle.jpg[/IMG] pro player that morphs into any other style given the situation will scoop your stack & tilt you [IMG]http://www.railbirds.com/gallery/2008/05/39289purplemonkey.jpg[/IMG] sub human player that doesn't know any better, newbie unbluffable, dense You can copy and paste these animals & their descriptions to something easily accesible when you are playing until you have all styles memorized. Here is topcat's full description of each animal and their style [B]The mouse[/B] plays only the top 10 hands and is very conserative, never bluffs and if he calls a raise, or reraises you watch out, he has the goods. [B]The lion[/B] is tough a compeditor that plays more than the top 10 hands and bluffs at the right times and sniffs out bluffs against him, he will ocassionaly go out on a limb with a semi-bluff, or a bluff, but has a good overall game. [B]The jackal[/B] is the loose wild player we refer to a lot as a Donk. He plays way to many hands and usually with junk cards. If he gets lucky and hits a run of good cards he can be tough, but they never last very long. [B]The elephant[/B] is the fairly loose calling station kind of player that is impossiable to bluff and feeds off his chips over a period of time. He isn't very sharp player and not a real threat at the table, he seems to do good against the Jackal because the Jackal keeps trying to bluff at him, to no avail. [B]The eagle[/B] is the guy that playes the best game consistantly, and has strategys to foil all the other animals attacks on his chips. He is profitable and confident, and can sniff out the fish in a game [/QUOTE]

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