Almost every single online poker site I play on has an option that let you make notes on other players, the poker strategy they use, their plays, history, etc. This is a lot easier than keeping tons of pages with people’s user names and chicken scratch on how they play, and it is a great way to improve your play and have a notion of how the other people react on certain situations. All major poker sites including FullTilt.com, PokerStars, Party Poker, Mansion Poker or Sun Poker have this feature available, to keep track of a player, all you have to do double click on his/her icon. Then a little box will pop open, where you can then write notes. In Full Tilt Poker, there’re about 10 colors for you to select, each one of them represents a level, green meaning easy, red meaning hard, etc. Then once you’re done, you click on “save and exit”, and whenever you see that player again, scroll over his/her name for your notes.

The same applies to PokerStars.com, the only thing is that it doesn’t have the color scheme to choose from. Now we have all played against donks, pros (to say the least), or even just people who play odd. Keeping track of players really is useful, I only started 2 months ago and I was amazed at how many people I came across in sng's and cash games who I had notes on.  I'd avoid the tables in where I see players I had marked in "red" or in other words, sharks, and I moved to the tables in where I can catch some "Green" players, or in other words, fish. My profits had increased, and I knew who bluffs, who is loose, who is a calling station, etc. Who knows when you will play these people again, but one thing is for sure, when you do, you will be one step ahead by knowing their styles of play.