SSNL Session Review

[DWarrior]

Session Review time.

Since HouseCalls is back with the limidonks, MikeyPatriot and I are going to alternate organizing these. I called this week.

PM me with your game type (FR vs 6-max) and level, and I’ll pair you up. I’m aiming for the pairings to go up on Wednesday.

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<u>Additional tips:</u>
Try and send a complete 200 hand session, or 2 100-hand sessions. This way your reviewer can get an idea of the table and point out some situational plays you may be missing. After you’re done with your session, go to the Session Notes tab and pick out a session or two. Double click on a session to select it (Ctrl+double click to select more than one, ctrl+double click on a session again to deselect), then once you got 1 or 2 sessions highlighted, go to Game Notes tab and click the Get All button (top right). You should have ~200 hands only from your selected sessions. Use the Export… button to save them to a text file.

The way I review files is import them into my PT (File &gt; Import Hand Histories/Tournament Summaries). Go to Preferences and set your name as your review buddy. Then, find your review buddy’s name and select the session(s) he sent you (you might have additional hands on them, so make sure you filter those out). Go to Game Notes, display all hands, sort by Game # in ascending order. Click the first hand #, click the “Playback This Hand…” button. You should be able to see their hole cards. Use the controls on bottom left to play through the hand, use the leaf of paper icon next to each player to take game-specific, use the sigma icon to check their stats (just take into account the fact that your buddy won’t have those stats available to them at the start of the session, if their stats affect the way you’d play the hand, mention in your text file that had you known his stats, you might have played the hand differently). When you’re done with the hand, use the controls on top left to go to the next hand.

As you look through the hands, make sure you at least scroll through the folded hands. Take notes on the villains. If you rarely take notes during play (like me), here’s your chance to practice. If a situation comes up where you utilize a note, point it out in the review file.

Don’t be afraid to sign up. You won’t be sending your review into a void, I encourage you to discuss each other’s reviews afterwards. In effect, you’ll be reviewing 400 of each other’s hands.

And yes, most of the hands will be folded, that’s fine. You might have leaks in your game that you think are standard play and wouldn’t think of posting them on the boards. 99% of fixing a leak is finding it.

gl hf

[luke4130]

May i make the suggestion of dividing participants by whether they use pokeroffice or pokertracker. There perhaps won't be enough participants to make this work but could make things easier.

[DWarrior]

I don't think that matters. PT stores the original hand histories for each site, so when you export I'm pretty sure you get the hands in the same format as the original site produced.

I don't know how Poker Office works, but I would expect it to work the same way.

[luke4130]

Oh ok, I didn't realise that, suggestion retracted.

[Spy021]

Recently started playing NL so I have a lot to learn. I like the idea of the SSNL Session Review, but feel that I don't have a lot that is worthwhile to contribute as I am still learning. Is there an experience requirement for this exercise?

[DWarrior]

No. When people sign up for session reviews, they understand that they will be paired with players of varying skill level. This is not a coaching session, this is peer review.

If you get your review back and don't agree with something, continue the discussion. You will gain a deeper understanding of the game, and your partner will solidify their concepts. Also, maybe they are the ones with the leak, and by discussing the situations they may find a better play.

If you have friends who are starting to take poker seriously and just started surfing SSNL, encourage them to sign up for this.

Also, the pairings will be done randomly using hat and paper. The only thing I'll do is make sure players are not reviewing the same players they did last session. One of the 100 NLers will get stuck reviewing me.

[Black winter day]

Great idea!
Moderators - this should be a sticky!

[lorez]

Spy, you'll find the sessions really informative. I found looking at someone elses sessions and seeing how they played a hand and thinking about how different I would of played it very benificial. It is one of the best learning experiences I've done in recent times. It helps galvanise the concepts you've learned reading books and helps you see how to employ these ideas while playing.

Sign up you won't regret it.

[jakerc]

thanks for running this DW, i just signed up.

[DWarrior]

bump