In short, getting more selective of books and internet articles will make you better player as well. I consider myself more of a TAG rather a LAG to read that book so i'm more close to books like anything of Harrington, Winning tournaments one hand at a time and such. For example Super System is a book not going to read, ever, regardless it's cult status. Trying to grasp the plays, especially from pros close to your own style, really helps your game overtime since the play gets sticked on brain. I push myself hard to not fall into that tendency of snap-reading and say ok, next. That also solves the tilt issue, making you a more focusing player.Īlso, when i read books i try to focus or enter the pro's mind for playing a hand. I like to think myself as a trainee which needs training and games rather results. I think sharing your day between playing, reading and evaluating in equal will improve one's arsenal overtime and that's logical. Quality play requires lots of energy and time. I never, for example, try to read 150 book pages because i want to carve book stuff into my head while playing this stuff. Also my plan balances between playing + reading + evaluating. In addition, i would have also a bigger sample of awkwardly played hands so i can evalute better after the tourneys. I'm always trying to fix my worst plays and never really look at my wins or won hands. As i always try to find reasons to fold, i always try to find reasons to evaluate problematic hands. I get ITM% around 10+ and that's fine but i'm mostly interesting on problematically played hands after the tourney.
I just use a fixed bankroll able to withstand lots of quality games. I don't really care about the results at this moment. But i'm always try to find a balance between buy-in vs quality of play to withstand lots of tourneys where i min-cashed or not at all. Here's what i do.Īs with everything practice helps. I consider myself a MTT trainee (note: i'm only playing online) and as try to push my game.
I am sure there will be differences specific to poker improvement which means the method will need some adaptations. Do the results indicate the weaknesses are improved? How can you improve them even more? Are there more or new weaknesses which needs improvement? Make sure you understand and master the found principles by practicing it over and over again.Analyze the information and make a rapport of your findings. Gather as much reliable sources as you can find for each specific weaknesses.Make deadlines for your goals and keep to them.Indicate how you solved and how you should have solved the problem. using the STARR method you can list down specific (real) situations. Take the weaknesses from your SWOT analysis and put them into goals.The opportunities will probably only boil down to 'making profit', but it is important to indicate possible threats to your learning process. SWOT also concerns opportunities and threats. You could perform a ' SWOT analysis' to indicate these. First of all, it is important to think very critically about yourself (self reflection) and indicate all the strengths and weaknesses of your play.I can therefore offer some general guidelines I follow. I do not have experience in structured, measurable improvement of my poker game, but I do have some experience in self-improvement in other fields.
How would you use these tools (and any others that I might not have yet!) into a good plan for poker? Let's assume you want to put 3-4 hours every day into improving your poker. Obviously, the answer is probably a combination of all of these. How would you put all of this into a cohesive plan for improving your poker? Is it more hours at the tables? Is it more about watching videos? Is it running more simulations on hands with software?