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"Purple for nasty ratbags"
Tikay10
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How do you colour code your opponents?
I was amused to see "purple for nasty ratbags" on another thread today.
What colours do you use, & for what range of ability?
How do you assess "ability"?
In these private notes, what is the worst category you use?
I often used to reference a player to mark how bad, old, or lucky, they were. So I'd just write "Orford", "Essexphil" or Bates".
I was amused to see "purple for nasty ratbags" on another thread today.
What colours do you use, & for what range of ability?
How do you assess "ability"?
In these private notes, what is the worst category you use?
I often used to reference a player to mark how bad, old, or lucky, they were. So I'd just write "Orford", "Essexphil" or Bates".
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Red = huge leaks in there game
Orange = competent but has leaks and can spew tips
Green = good player minimal leaks and usually rough ranges for certain spots and how they can be exploited
Its fun seeing notes you make on players from years back that aren't actually helpful. Like " offended when i said "interesting call".
I also like to leave my future self notes for inspiration like " Get to the gym you lazy ****."
Unfortunately every game I played seemed to be entirely full of green people.
So I had to mix it up a bit
Yellow - average reg
Orange - strong reg
Red - elite reg - only 4 players so far have earned this...
Then all the rest of the colours are for other players all the way up to 'must be somebody's pet walking up and down the keyboard mashing buttons'
Would be fascinating to see everyone's colour rankings on yourself for the day! Bet everyone manages to get tagged good by someone and then terrible by someone else
Red=avoid like the plague or a consistent winner
Orange= was a green, improving to a red or was a red, started to get worse , so should now be green.
Blue = good/ok player , proceed with caution
Yellow= idiot , takes chances with there stack
Red= absolute fool, bets every preflop, hates folding, suffers from tilt
No colour= never played them before/hard to work out keeps changing game style between yellow, red and blue.
Had you down as purple Tikay when you played pl08 then down graded you down to a blue when you caught me on the river a few times.
Orange - Competant
Light Blue - Fun Player
Red - Super Fun Player
It’s all relative tho, some people’s competant players can be some people’s fun players and so on. Sharkscope is ususally the best to gauge a players overall ability. I also tend to make a note on players bet sizing’s on the river. Half pot - value, 75% pot - bluff etc.. not that I take it as gospel, but it certainly has helped me in a few close spots in the past.
As for notes,I don't keep any,as I believe players can play differently each time they play,so I prefer to go on what I see on the night.
One of the best things that helped my game ,was years ago I asked some of the best players,on the forum I was a member of,to tell me what they had in their notes about me,most of them did, and it told me a lot about my game, was a real Eye-opener for me.
Also someone mentioned people play different every time they play which is actually fairly accurate to be fair. I don’t have a strategy when I load up a tournament as your strategy can actually lead to you missing good spots. Much better to try and adapt to the table.
That being said if you can get good at constructing rough ranges for different bb depths that is quite a useful tool
Edit: it was a good thing btw not a leak
Edit: not saying I'm one of the good players!
If there were more colours, I'd probably have a dark/light blue for aggressive/passive bad respectively, same with green. I used a good 20-25 different colours/shades in my old 'Stars note system, and also had a greyscale system for something else that I can't remember any more which ran alongside, before they sold their soul and give away their last ounce of dignity in a chest to a Spin and Go reg. Would love more colours on here. #SortItOutSky
Then I use the remaining pink/purple colour as an "Alert" tag, so a lot of the really nitty, okay-ish guys who sit at cash doing nothing whatsoever unless they flop quads and generally being as exciting as a vacant seat will have a pink tag so that I notice when that person makes an aggressive action, rather than just going "Oh I've got something kinda pretty in position let's just peel everything". Find it helps me to snap out of autopilot decisions a fair bit.
Yellow - General notes about their play.
Blue - They have multiple coloured notes.
Green - Play them every chance I get.
Orange - Hard to get off a hand don't bluff.
These are mainly for cash games some players don't have notes as I played them that regularly I new the way they played, now I have all these notes I play mostly tournaments.
I have stacks of notes but they are generally about how they play their hands.
As I play a lot of dyms there is a lot of basic stuff when I’m playing non regs.
“Tight, shove light”
“Caller, never shove light”
With the 2nd one I normally glance at that note just as I’ve shoved with 95 and he’s snapped with 10 5
Small player base and so I rarely look at my notes.
One thing I would advise is to date notes and what format game it is.
A note from 2012 may not be much use now etc
Blue - Halibut
Yellow - Anchovy
Orange - Basking Shark
Purple - Hammerhead Shark
Red - Great White Shark
As for notes, beyond noting any particularly strange lines post flop, most of my notes involve trying to pick up info on ranges - eg the bottom of a regs under the gun opening range or whether someone appears to have a linear or polarised 3bet range.
One problem for me though is that there isn't always enough space to take as many notes as I wish so, please Sky, do try to be a bit more generous on this front when you're developing your shiny new software!