How often do you review your poker sessions?

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Many players spend hours playing but very little time reviewing their decisions afterward.

Do you review your sessions regularly? If so, what tools or methods do you use? Has reviewing your hands made a noticeable difference in your win rate?
 
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louuu19 said:
Many players spend hours playing but very little time reviewing their decisions afterward.

Do you review your sessions regularly? If so, what tools or methods do you use? Has reviewing your hands made a noticeable difference in your win rate?
Very little, to be honest—almost never. And I know that's a mistake I need to correct. I spend much more time playing than reviewing, even though some of the biggest improvements probably come from analyzing hands afterward.

Lately, I've realized that reviewing key hands, especially the ones where I felt uncertain, would help me identify leaks much faster. It's something I intend to do more regularly, because I believe the lessons learned away from the table are often more valuable than the hands played at it.
 
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louuu19 said:
Many players spend hours playing but very little time reviewing their decisions afterward.

Do you review your sessions regularly? If so, what tools or methods do you use? Has reviewing your hands made a noticeable difference in your win rate?
I always review marked hands between sessions, with HM and GTO Wizard
 
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I do on a regular basis, probably once or twice per week. I find that it helps to share with someone better than I am to give opinions on what I could have done differently. Someone more skilled than I can point out things that I am not so aware of.
 
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I mostly review hands by mass-importing SnG hands into ICMizer. Which per definition mean, I am not studying my own postflop spots all that much. I try to make up for this by contributing to the hand review sections, where I then get to look at other peoples postflop spots, and by watching free training videos on Youtube.

For instance I have watched a series of videos, that Jonathan Little put out, where he go through a bunch of hands, he played in $1/$3 live cash games. If I pretty much agree with all the decisions, a good player like him made in postflop situations, and understand his rationale as well, then I am confident, my postflop game is not completely terrible.

Looking at your own hands without using software like ICMizer or a solver can be fine, but its mostly usefull for identifying spots, where you were playing your C- or D-game. Like maybe when you see a hand again, you think "OMG why did I make that river call", or "that was a terrible bluff". But this only allow you to identify situations, where maybe you were tilted or to tired or whatever.

If for instance you bet the river in a situation, where you should clearly have checked, but you did so without being tilted or tired, then when you see the hand again, you will still think, this was a fine play. So you need to check your lines against either software or other good poker players (like a coach) to actually learn something, you dont know already.

If you dont do this, then reviewing sessions is mostly a tool to find peace with losing sessions. Like if you are a cash game player and had a bad session, where you lost 475BB, then you can go through all your big losing hands and convince yourself, that you just ran bad and did not make any major mistakes. But this does not mean, you actually learned anything, that will help you in future sessions.
 
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Unfortunately, almost never, because it takes a lot of time. Maybe that's why I can't seem to improve my poker game.
 
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Semprini said:
I do on a regular basis, probably once or twice per week. I find that it helps to share with someone better than I am to give opinions on what I could have done differently. Someone more skilled than I can point out things that I am not so aware of.
Congratulations on your strategy. You'll go far that way.
 
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fundiver199 said:
I mostly review hands by mass-importing SnG hands into ICMizer. Which per definition mean, I am not studying my own postflop spots all that much. I try to make up for this by contributing to the hand review sections, where I then get to look at other peoples postflop spots, and by watching free training videos on Youtube.

For instance I have watched a series of videos, that Jonathan Little put out, where he go through a bunch of hands, he played in $1/$3 live cash games. If I pretty much agree with all the decisions, a good player like him made in postflop situations, and understand his rationale as well, then I am confident, my postflop game is not completely terrible.

Looking at your own hands without using software like ICMizer or a solver can be fine, but its mostly usefull for identifying spots, where you were playing your C- or D-game. Like maybe when you see a hand again, you think "OMG why did I make that river call", or "that was a terrible bluff". But this only allow you to identify situations, where maybe you were tilted or to tired or whatever.

If for instance you bet the river in a situation, where you should clearly have checked, but you did so without being tilted or tired, then when you see the hand again, you will still think, this was a fine play. So you need to check your lines against either software or other good poker players (like a coach) to actually learn something, you dont know already.

If you dont do this, then reviewing sessions is mostly a tool to find peace with losing sessions. Like if you are a cash game player and had a bad session, where you lost 475BB, then you can go through all your big losing hands and convince yourself, that you just ran bad and did not make any major mistakes. But this does not mean, you actually learned anything, that will help you in future sessions.
Your dedication and the way you do your revisions are really interesting. I'm going to try doing that, too.
 
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Newer. But I rewiew some hands and that very often. Whole session to rewiew take to much time.
 
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Very little, something I should yeah...
 
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Every day, evenctually i cant do. But I want to do more times per day
 
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