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  1. Claydog07 Claydog07 is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 10:36am)

    The more I play, the more I wonder how I am coming up short. small tourneys, big tourneys, cheap tourneys, expensive ones too. I study really hard and try to ballance a job, fiance and two kids along with it. I just cant seem to take a good share, though I feel when I play my "A game" I am pretty unstoppable.

    I recently realized(or I should say, my fiance realized :-)) a few of my flaws. So more this post is about how to counteract those weaknesses. When I play, I find that half the time, when i am not in the hand, I am letting my mind wonder away from the cards instead of paying attention to what my opponents are doing and learning there tendencies. On top of that, when I play a tournament, I am getting a little impatient whenever I am not playing as a higher than average chip stack. I was hoping I could get a little advice on how to keep focused, and hopefully enjoy the thrill of winning more often. All help is appreciated, Thanks.
  2. lockdownpokah lockdownpokah is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 10:51am) in reply to Claydog07

    pxf ftw
     
  3. doubledave22 doubledave22 is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 10:53am) in reply to Claydog07

    if u get pxf and watch rizen million for example, u see the importance of watching ur table and picking up reads. He goes over every hand even ones hes not in to show you what you can learn by simply watching and taking notes on players. About not having an average stack and losing patience, well u just need to work on your short stack game. Try practicing a few turbo sngs and reading up on harringtons M. Just turn off distraction and try to play at least 2-4 tables this way youll always be busy and wont even be able to handle watching a tv show or browsing internet. GL
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  4. Claydog07 Claydog07 is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 11:15am) in reply to doubledave22

    Thank you for the advice. I will look into PXF.
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  5. JackBileDuct JackBileDuct is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 11:47am) in reply to Claydog07

    You don't say if you do but leave the TV, music etc off. If I have the TV on, I know I'll pay attention to it while not involved in a hand. With nothing else on in the room, it is a lot easier to focus on nothing but the monitor and action at the table(s) I am sitting at. Also as to becoming impatient, playing multiple tables at a time helps. Not so many that you can't keep up but enough that you are probably involved in a hand on one of them at any given point.
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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 12:15pm) in reply to JackBileDuct

    You guys are giving advice as to turn off the tv and what not, and pay attention to the tables and their tendencies. But then tell him to open up 3 or so tables to help occupy his time. If you are always involved in a hand, then you are not paying attention to the other tables. Its no different then one table and watching TV.

    Its a learning process, how many tournaments have you played and is it a good sample size? For me I have 3 kids so I know they can be a distraction. But I also play 3-4 tournies at a time along with watching prime time tv. You just have to learn to deal with distractions and the actual game. Be aware of where you are (position wise) on your tables. Know who your aggressors are, who typically seems to play position, etc. Keep these notes, play quality hands and show patience. Having kids you should already be school'd in patience so use it. GL
  7. TheGarbageMan TheGarbageMan is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 12:18pm) in reply to Claydog07

    Play live cash games and just focus on the player tendencies and your table image... if you play ABC and factor in these other influences, you'll surly be a winner. Live poker is a great confidence boost too, because its cash-in-hand.
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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 1:55pm) in reply to TheGarbageMan

    I really appreciate all the advice guys. I am sorry to be so vague on the why i can't seem to focus. Usually the TV is off, and for the most part no music is playing(turn on a song I like whenever i suffer a bad beat). I feel like i have ADD sometimes, i just cant consentrate. It's something that I have only realized in the past couple of weeks, so it is something i am working at. The multi-tabling has small success, but I would really rather be puting less in and have good returns. I am going to take this advice to the tables, hopefully good results will follow. I am going to try and take a large enough sample size where it cant just be considered a bad run (or good run), and see what you all think.

    Again, I appreciate all the help.
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  9. JackBileDuct JackBileDuct is offline

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    Jun 10th, 2008 (6/10/2008 2:04pm) in reply to 8ntmuch

     
    Originally Posted by 8ntmuch View Post

    You guys are giving advice as to turn off the tv and what not, and pay attention to the tables and their tendencies. But then tell him to open up 3 or so tables to help occupy his time. If you are always involved in a hand, then you are not paying attention to the other tables. Its no different then one table and watching TV.

    Not really. If you are watching TV you aren't even looking at your monitor. If you have 3-4 tables on a single monitor, you should be able to see them all if you are watching the monitor. Maybe you aren't paying extreme attention to them all but certainly more so than watching the TV then coming back to the monitor when it is your action.
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