I observe such people in a cash game and can understand them. You play 2-3 hours at the table using a tight style. Opponents around raise constantly with strange hands. You got good cards a couple of times and you were moved on the river. Not winning a single bank in a few hours makes people furious.
I get bored after the first couple of folds sometimes and start playing anything from everywhere. Only sometime though. And it works exactly as it should. I occasionally get lucky and win, but that is rare. I have a blast though it makes me laugh when my crap crap cards beat someone who is seriously trying!! haha
EddMaster said:
It helps me to have something else occupying my attention...
playing music, watching a movie, reading poker strategy maybe or surfing the web sometimes even catch up on social media during really long grinds...
Hi Ed, I have experienced the same thing so here was what I did to prevent it:
I increased the size of the buy ins/ stakes I was playing for!
This forced me to really focus in and make every hand an opportunity to examine my opponents behaviour. I also found it more exciting to play for more money (even if the table was slow).
I increased the size of the buy ins/ stakes I was playing for!
This forced me to really focus in and make every hand an opportunity to examine my opponents behaviour. I also found it more exciting to play for more money (even if the table was slow).
kraemer said:
I like this idea, but I find most other poker variations to be more of a gamble as I find them a lot harder to play. Maybe I just need to play them a bit more to understand what is a good starting hand, as I always think I’m good until the other person shows (especially Stud)
Honestly, I have been distracted to the point where I am on my phone and realize it is my turn and make a call looking at two decent cards without looking how much the bet was. Then, I am like damn! No way would i have called half my stack with KJo!! So it really has forced me to silence my phone and possibly even sit at my desk away from TV and phone. Boredom plays a huge role in me ALLOWING myself to be distracted. So like others i have been playing roughly 6 tables at a time now to limit boredom.
I make such kind of bad moves/decisions , morst of the time not because of boredom , but because I am frustrated by some great mistakes that I did , so I call/shove very loose or crazy . Also when sb else has given me a bad beat or made a loose/donkey call/shove and I lost a very large proportion of my stack , critical for the remaing of the tournament/sattelite, I might quit , shove ATC my last few remaining BBs and bye bye , go to sleep lol