As you play against your online poker opponents you will notice that they will behave differently in different ways. Such as raising pre flop, then folding if someone raises on a flop that contains an ace. If you make a note of this you can take advantage of it when you meet this player in the future.

If you are serious about playing on line poker you will meet hundreds of opponents. It would be very difficult for you to correctly memorize their playing styles. With a comprehensive set of notes, you can quickly remind yourself about how a player likes to play.

Your poker notes can also help you identify fish, bad poker players.

Examples of other notes.

• Seems to raise a lot pre flop, but then fold to a pot size bet.
• Does not play many hands, only seen AA, KK, QQ.
• Tiltable.
• Extremely aggressive, likes to bluff a lot.
• Always raises top pair.
  

Professionals and winning amateur poker players take notes. Here are a few quotes.

In an article at ESPN.com, Daniel Negreanu advocates taking notes to prepare for the main event. Now, if Daniel is suggesting that you take notes that should really encourage you to invest in some software to capture poker player notes.

In the main event of the 2004 World Series of Poker, Greg Raymer was seen to be taking notes. This was on TV, a huge event and we have a champion taking notes. Incidentally, Greg went on to win $5,000,000. (Worthwhile having notes on poker opponents !)

Taking notes should form one part of your overall poker strategy.

Ways that you can take notes.

Using the note taking facilities at the online poker room. Using something like Microsoft notepad. Pen and paper? (Nothing wrong with it)

All the methods work, but they have a few shortcomings when compared to specialised poker note taking software. Here are a few features that you should expect from software designed to capture your notes about online poker players.

• Capture free text notes.
• Assign preset traits to players.
• Allow you to chose and set the preset traits.
• Assign a preset rating to a player.
• Allow you to choose and set the preset ratings.
• Keep separate traits between cash and tournament games.
• Search for a player.
• Search for players according to the rating that you have assigned.
• Store your preferred table layout.
• Provided more that one way of viewing the payer notes windows.
• Add extra poker rooms.