Good morning everyone.
I started playing poker in 2018, and what I’m going to talk about was very common back then. Many players have already gone through this.
Poker is a game of patience. You need to have a lot of patience, especially in tournaments. And it’s difficult to maintain that patience playing on a cellphone or playing only a few tables, like one, two, or three tables.
Right now I’m playing on my cellphone, and I notice that I end up playing very bad hands precisely because of impatience. When I had my computer with a 27-inch monitor, I was able to play several tournaments at the same time, six, seven, eight tournaments. So I waited much more. Sometimes I stayed there with five or six blinds waiting for a really strong hand.
On the computer it’s different. You can wait more because you are focused on several tables at the same time. On the cellphone, looking at only one screen, the game becomes much more mentally exhausting. In tournaments you can spend two hours waiting for hands, get pocket aces, and still bust out. That wears you down and people really do lose patience.
So it depends a lot on the device you are playing on. On the computer you can have much more discipline and patience. On the cellphone it’s normal to become more impatient and end up forcing plays.
