Most of your win rate is decided before the first hand.

Which game should I even sit in?

Game selection is the highest-value decision a cash player makes, and a spreadsheet never answers it. Your results by venue, stake and day of week show which room pays you and which one you keep driving to out of habit.

Who is already in the seat next to you?

You worked the blue cap in seat 3 out over four sessions: his river bet is always value. Six weeks later he sits down again and the read has gone, because it only ever lived in your head. Online players get a HUD for this. Write it down once and you keep it.

• ✓A style and a colour per player: TAG, LAG, fish, nit, or a label of your own
• ✓Tags you tap, not type: never bluffs, calls too much, tilts easily, squeeze happy
• ✓Last seen on every card, so a read from a year ago is marked as one

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Am I still sharp at hour six?

Decisions degrade with fatigue, and hour six against a reg who never bluffs is where feel runs out. The drills exist for exactly that moment: pricing, combos and ranges trained until they arrive without effort.

Am I actually a winner?

Hourly, bb per hour, win rate by stake, and variance shown in context so a rough fortnight reads as a rough fortnight rather than a crisis. Memory rounds up. The record does not.