Chapter 10: Review and Practice

The Hand Review Template

Write out one hand in this format

Items to record

[Preflop]

Position / effective stack / action / your hand / your opponent’s range

[Flop]

Board / range advantage / nut advantage / SPR / where you sit

[Turn]

Card type / range change / decision and reason

[River]

Value combos / bluff combos / pot odds / decision

The verification part (this is the core)

• What was the GTO-style baseline?
• Was the Exploit adjustment reasonable?
• Where did you misjudge EV?
• What information did you miss?
• How did it compare with the alternative lines?

Rules for writing it

• Do not write the result (won or lost)
• Write only the grounds for the decision
• 10 minutes for one hand. Five hands a week is enough

How to Find Leaks

Search by sorting, not by feel

• ① Collect hands where you were unsure, not hands you lost
• ② Sort them by street (where you were unsure)
• ③ If the same kind of doubt appears three or more times, that is a leak
• ④ Go back to that chapter and rebuild your decision standard
• ⑤ For the next one week, play with only that spot in mind
• ⑥ After one week, check whether the same doubt has decreased

Reviewing hands you lost drags you along with the results. Using “I was unsure” as the standard lets you follow only the quality of your decisions.

How to Finish with This Book

What is written here is not a list of answers but steps for breaking spots down.

Once the steps are part of you, you no longer need to recall each chapter’s conclusions.

Month 1

Run the 3-second tree on every hand. Build the speed of your decisions

Months 2 – 3

One week per chapter. Keep up the review of five hands a week

After that

Dig deep only into the spots where you were unsure. The charts become a dictionary

The final goal is to be able to break down spots you have not seen before with the same steps, without opening this book.