Analyzing Your Poker Game

If you are an online poker player, one of the most important keys to improving your game is to identify the deficiencies and eliminate them. With all the information that is currently available, you have no excuse for not following your game and breaking it after each session. You can do it in many ways, including using your own poker table, using online tracking software or buying special software used to analyze your real poker game. We will review the most common methods to analyze your online poker game and explain why it is profitable.

The easiest way to track your online poker game is to simply use an Excel spreadsheet.

 If you decide to do this, make sure you have columns for all the important information, including the date of the session, the hours of the session, the poker site you played, the bets you played, the amount of purchases you used and the total benefit or loss per session. You can then have another cell that will automatically summarize your gains / losses to give you a subtotal of the money you have earned / lost so far. The reason to keep track of things like the clock you played or the poker site you played on is to identify trends in your game, such as playing better during the day or playing better at Poker Stars vs. Full Tilt.

In addition to tracking gains and losses, you can also track the actual game at the tables to identify holes in your game. Every poker hand you play has a text story called poker hand history. This may seem like a boring repetition of meaningless hands, but in fact they are extremely important when it comes to improving as a player. The reason for this is that you can download all the stories of your poker hands from the poker site and download them in software that will analyze your game and point out the deficiencies that are losing your money. An example of this software is Poker Tracker. Simply put all the history of your poker combinations in a folder, and the software analyzes these combinations and tells you what you are doing wrong, if it is a game too aggressive, bets too high, etc.

Summary

Actually, there is online poker forums dedicated to deciphering numbers that poker tracker returns. For the first timer, this can be a bit overwhelming and confusing, so be sure to visit any of the main forums like TwoPlusTwo.com to familiarize you with the basics of poker Tracker. All players at the main online poker sites use this information, so you can also use it if you want to be aware.