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Reading a session
How to skim a session report, find your worst hand, and learn from it.
TL;DR
Every session's analysis page has a stats block with plain-language verdicts and a list of your costliest hands. Skim the verdicts first, then open your worst hand or two — that's where the real learning is, not in re-reading every hand you played.
Every Hero Poker session ends with an analysis page. This guide walks through what's actually on it, so you get real value out of it instead of skimming past the numbers.
The stats block
At the top you'll see a handful of plain-language stats: how often you played a hand, how often you raised first, your win rate, and a few others. Each one has a small abbreviation next to it (like VPIP or PFR) in case you want to look it up elsewhere, but the label itself is the part that matters day to day.
Early in a session, these numbers are noisy — a handful of hands isn't a real sample. The stats block flags this for you until you've played enough hands to trust the read.
What to work on
This is the most important block. It lists the specific spots that likely cost you the most chips this session, in plain language, with a link back to the hand itself so you can see exactly what happened.
Pot
- SableBot174 chips
- EstherFolded200 chips
- RexBot196 chips
- OtisFolded200 chips
- ZiziFoldedB200 chips
Three flops out, three players still in. Hero is to act with the timer running.
Clicking into a hand from this list drops you into a step-by-step replay of exactly what happened — your cards, the board, and every action in order, on the same table view you played on live.
Where you lost the most
This block ranks your costliest individual decisions across the whole session, worst first. Each row links straight into the replay of that hand, right at the step where the decision happened.
Reading it honestly
The goal isn't to feel bad about a low win rate or a big loss — it's to find the one or two repeatable habits that are actually costing you chips, and fix those first. A single bad beat isn't a habit worth fixing. A pattern that shows up across several hands is.