Session Review and Table Selection With

Session Review, Table Selection, and Live Play With Paxis

A live coaching session led by coach Paxis is scheduled for Thursday, starting at 19:00. The session is listed as freely available, and its stated focus areas are session review, table selection, adjustments, and live play.

What the Session Covers

The announced topic breaks into four connected parts. Each one addresses a different stage of the poker decision-making process, from what happens after a session ends to what a player does while hands are still running.

• Session review: examining how a session actually played out rather than relying on memory and results alone.
• Table selection: choosing which tables and lineups to sit in before and during play.
• Adjustments: changing approach in response to how opponents and conditions develop.
• Live play: applying these ideas in real time rather than only in theory.

Why Session Review Matters

Review is the part of poker study that players most often skip, because it requires revisiting hands that may already feel resolved. A structured review separates the outcome of a hand from the quality of the decision that produced it. A hand can be played well and still lose, and it can be played poorly and still win. Reviewing only the hands that lost money tends to reinforce results-oriented thinking rather than sound process.

A practical review usually involves marking hands during play, then returning to them later with fresh attention. Typical questions include whether the chosen line matched the player's actual range, whether the bet sizing made sense given stack depths, and whether the read on the opponent was based on evidence or assumption. Because a single session produces far more hands than a player can study in depth, most players select a small number of spots that felt uncertain or that repeated a known leak.

Table Selection as a Skill

Table selection is often treated as a minor detail, but in practice it shapes the conditions a player faces for an entire session. The composition of a lineup affects how often a player can profitably enter pots, how much action the table generates, and how difficult the average decision becomes.

Key considerations typically include the number of weak or overly aggressive opponents, the average stack depth, and whether the table is likely to remain stable or break up quickly. In cash games, players generally have more freedom to leave a table and seek a better one than in tournament formats, where the table is assigned. Even in tournaments, though, the same underlying logic applies to choosing which opponents to engage and which to avoid.

Adjustments and Live Play

Adjustments are the bridge between preparation and execution. A plan formed before a session is based on assumptions about how opponents will behave. Once real information arrives, those assumptions need updating. Common adjustments include widening or narrowing preflop ranges against opponents who fold too often or call too much, changing bet sizing against players who react predictably, and altering aggression levels when the table dynamic shifts.

The live play portion of the session concerns applying these adjustments under time pressure. Decisions in live poker must be made without the benefit of a solver or a long pause, which is why many players who understand a concept in study still fail to apply it at the table. Repetition and clear, simple heuristics generally help more than complex plans that cannot be recalled in the moment.

Who This Is For

The session is aimed at players who want a more disciplined approach to their own game rather than a collection of isolated tips. The combination of review, table selection, adjustment, and live application reflects the reality that these elements reinforce one another: good table selection produces clearer information, clearer information supports better adjustments, and honest review is what reveals whether the adjustments worked.

Players interested in attending should note the Thursday start time of 19:00 and that the session is listed as freely available.