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A session for me is usually about an hour long. I dont want to get too tired and play poorly, and it also is just easy to slot into my days. Some days I may get two sessions in, and some days I may miss altogether, but I'm really trying hard to be consistant about the 1 session per day thing to keep my practise up.
After every session I do a review. Biggest winners, biggest losers, hands that stood out, a few random pots, etc. I'll try to take some postgame notes on some opponents, especially if they stand out during any of my hand reviews. I probably spend around 15 mins doing that after every session, and post a few hands on weaktight for my group to review. I then spend some time going over any comments they've made on previous hands, and commenting on any hands they've posted.
I would normally talk to at least one person per day on msn or aim about poker. Maybe following up on a comment they made on a hand, talking in more depth about my thoughts on a hand they posted, or just chatting about games, strategies, problems, solutions, whatever.
I try to pick the crop of the posts on FTR and focus on the threads that will benefit me by reading them, and really try to think about the comments in those threads. I often spend a few mins on the 2+2 uNL forum, but its largely a cesspit of stupidity. Sometimes you find a diamond amongst the turds though.
I have a grinderschool membership, and went through and downloaded every 6-max vid they've done a while back. Sometimes if I have time I'll watch another one. I really should study them properly, even take notes/etc, but I dont really. I just watch them and try to let stuff sink in. Maybe because watching a video seems to be my option when I want to do something to improve my game, but my heads not right to play and I dont want to think too hard reading articles/etc.
Something I've been doing lately, is if I find a good post, or maybe an article on the internet somewhere that seems solid, especially if I dont have time to give it a lot of thought, is save it to my HD and then print it out later. I then clip them all together, and if I'm travelling or something I can take them along and read when I'm away. Sitting on a train or passenger in a car I can really muse over whats being said and think how it can apply to my game. Seems to be working well for me so far.
So all in all, I'm really trying to make the time I spend on poker count atm. Rather than just mindless entertainment for hrs a day with little playing and no real thought, I'd prefer to concentrate when I'm "on poker", and then let it go and do other things the rest of the time. Seems to be working so far, but its still early days.
I dont really spend much time in the irc channel unfortunately, but I do recommend it, especially if your aim/msn/whatever contact list doesnt already include a handful of players who are better than you to discuss things with.