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Importance of Keeping Records
This may seem like a useless point to
many but the truth is keeping records is
the key to knowing your success rate.
How would you know the magnitude of
your success if you aren’t keeping
records? 
Without 
having 
accurate

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records, you won’t know your true
potential.
Therefore, if you’re serious about
playing poker then treat it like a
business. Many poker players simply
don’t maintain their records because
they’re afraid of the amount of money
they’ve lost in games. The truth simply
hurts. However, maintaining records is
essential, especially if you can develop
the habit right from the start and you plan
to see the effectiveness of your
strategies.
Fortunately, the records you’ll be
maintaining won’t be as complex as real
businesses and won’t take much of your
time.

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You should be keeping the records that
give you an overview of the following
two quantities:
1. Win rate – this would tell you how
much money you’re winning/losing
per hour.
2. Standard deviation – this is a
statistical measure that shows short-
term fluctuations in your winning.
Basically it would tell you about
your luck!
What to record?
You don’t need to be aware of all the
rules of statistics if you want to keep
your records. You only need to keep
track of three quantities and you’ll be
good to go. The next time you go to play

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poker 
take 
a 
small 
pocket-sized
notebook with you and record the
following quantities on an hourly basis:
-
Money won/lost,
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The name of the game,
-
Total number of hours played,
When you get home or in the way,
process the collected information and
you’ll have your cumulative statistics.
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Calculate the amount won for the
entire month and subsequently the
year.
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The total number of hours played
for the month.
One of the greatest hurdles that you’ll
face while keeping records would be

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keeping up with it. This is a
psychological problem that can trigger
after a great loss. It can simply be too
hard for a person to record his own loss
after a winning streak and so he forgets
to do so. The next thing you know,
you’ve missed out the records for the
entire weak. Try your best to avoid such
behavior.