When you're ready to move from being a purely recreational poker player to a more serious one, a key element becomes keeping track of your play. It's hard to improve if you don't know where you stand.

Charting your play doesn't take much time, but it does require a commitment. Every poker session should be logged. All you need is a shirt-pocket notebook and a swig of truth serum, and you're on your way.

Why the truth serum? Because if you ask 100 poker players if they're winners ...

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