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Silly String

09-08-2005, 08:38 PM Post subject: Note taking when Multi-Tabling

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When you are 2 tabling or even 4 tabliing how do you keep track of oppenent's betting patterns or aggression tendencies, i.e. player notes.

I can keep track of one table well. Two is a stretch and I can only hit the highlights. Four is impossible.

When multi-tabling do you even try to keep notes?

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outphase

09-08-2005, 09:27 PM

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I play limit online, so my key note is "cold calls preflop," and I have it ready on the clipboard, so I can paste it anytime. Time to time, there's enough time between hands for me to add notes like their playing tendencies and hand selections. These are to the effect of: river raises = strong, pf raise means nothing, gets passive after resistance, calling station, takes weak aces too far, etc.

Also, this is in the wrong section.

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IJGrieve

09-08-2005, 10:40 PM

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My notes are normally little anecdotes about hands. For the more general stuff I rely on PokerTracker.

A typical note might look like this:
"Went all in on the Q high flop with KK after raising to $1 preflop (0.10/0.20)"

(where 0.10/0.20 means the blinds in NL--I don't play limit).

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dsaxton

09-08-2005, 10:48 PM

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I take notes while playing 5 tables. I just take a note whenever I see a peculiar play or notice a pattern. Usually that just means typing things like "Passive idiot," or "Can't be bluffed," when I see somebody call huge bets down to the river with middle pair or something ridiculous. Sometimes, though, the notes are more interesting if I notice more specific tendencies, like when a player is unable to lay down any pocket pair, overvalues top pair, regularly making position raises with marginal hands, never makes continuation bets, etc.

Basically anything that gives me information about what the other person is holding, and how he/she is likely to respond to my actions.

Surf_Thug

09-09-2005, 01:07 AM

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Yeah I do the same thing, mostly because I havn't paid for Poker Tracker yet..

I write things like, Maniac, Rock, Value Bet hard because he chases with draws, Raises with $hit, ect ect..

Stuff I can glance at and make a quick quick decision as I play 4-Tables also..

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Silly String

09-09-2005, 06:59 PM

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How many times do you see the behavior before noting it? I sometimes will note a pot stealer after only 1-2 times. I sometimes wonder if that is going to bite me in the arse one day on a big re-raise.

dsaxton, can you really recognize position raises with marginal hands while 5 tabling? I have a hard time doing that while 2 tabling. How do you keep the tables straight. Do you memorize Avatars, seat position, or do you have two monitors? I especially have trouble because so many hands don't make it to showdown when playing NL. I also always have to dig through the hand histories to find mucked cards.

I find note taking to be a pain, and it rarely pays me off. I play recreationally and don't run into big hands with players I have notes on very often.

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Laeelin

09-09-2005, 07:08 PM

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I am not able to follow betting patterns very well at all when multitableing, however, I do note key hands.

for example: reraised my pfr/w 75o, and then called my pot sized flop bet with nothing.

or: can be bluffed.
or: cant be bluffed.

(not sure which kind I like more)

That and PT work well enough for me.

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greggy

09-10-2005, 07:22 PM

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I use pokeroffice for this. They have an overlay which is just awesome, I can´t imagine I actually multitabled without it before!

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