Re: Live Note Taking
I have been pleasantly surprised at the small amount of attention my note-taking has gotten. I take a small notepad and simply make a one-line entry for each pot I enter telling me what I played, what position it was in, and how many small bets I won or lost. It only takes a second to write down 89o/SB/-2 or whatever. I still rely on memory to remember things about players, I just write down what I want to put in my database when I get home.
I do take a little bit of kidding about it but it is good natured and no big deal. Occassionally other players ask what I am writing, I tell them, and that's the end of it. I was originally concerned it would give me an over-serious table image for small stakes play ($3/$6 to $6/$12 limit) but it does not seem to have been a problem that way either.
Indeed, I think many players respect it, realizing at some level that they should be doing the same thing.
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