Using the hand review to find your leaks

A leak is a mistake you repeat. One poor call is a hand to learn from; the same call in the same spot every week is money you can win back. The hand review is built to find the second kind. Here's a routine to run after a session.

1. Import the whole session

Import every hand, not only the ones you remember. Big pots stick in memory; small mistakes repeated across a session don't, and over time they often cost more. Importing is free and doesn't count toward your plan; only analysis does.

2. Start with the costliest decisions

Sort your hands by costliest mistakes. Open the first few and read the decision that cost the most: what you did, what the solver prefers and how often it takes each option. Ask one question per hand: what did I know at that moment that should have changed my choice?

3. Look for the same spot twice

After a few hands, patterns show up: the same position, the same pot type, the same street. A river call out of position in a 3-bet pot. A turn check as the preflop raiser. When a spot shows up more than once, it's a candidate leak.

The Leaks page does this grouping for you. It gathers your graded decisions by spot and ranks the spots by the big blinds they cost, repeated ones first. It uses only real grades, from the solver and from the preflop charts, never demo placeholders. Chart grades have no big-blind figure, so those leaks are listed after the solver's.

4. Write one rule per leak

Turn each leak into a sentence you can use at the table. Not “play the river better”, but “facing a large river bet out of position in a 3-bet pot, I fold my weakest bluff-catchers more often”. One rule you remember beats ten you don't.

5. Practise, then check again

• Practise the spot until the answer feels familiar. The Leaks page links each leak to practice for that spot.
• When the reason behind a grade isn't clear, ask the coach about that hand.
• After a few more sessions, open the Leaks page again. A leak that shrinks means the rule is working; one that doesn't needs a new rule.

Reviewing this way keeps your attention on the decisions you control. Results swing from one session to the next; a spot you've fixed stays fixed.