How do you concentrate when playing poker?

[babymaily]

I listen to rock music to concentrate on the poker tables, what do you do?​

 

[deyvsonflp]

If you think that every hand is important and an opportunity to win chips, your concentration will always be firm. Think about it.

 

[TetraTap]

I enjoy the game so it's not a case of concentration for me most of the time as I enjoy watching hands play out

 

[A fox 666]

The radio is constantly on, I can’t play normally online without it!

 

[ajtrevor]

I have 3 kids so whenever I can find any quiet I just play music.

 

[SHIZIKK]

I listen to music, during breaks I do a warm-up to cheer up from sitting on a chair for a long time.

 

[FastEddie777]

Focus

I listen to rock music to concentrate on the poker tables, what do you do?​

I turn off everything and just focus on playing poker. I live alone so distractions are almost zero. Even with the best focus in the world you need to be lucky at times. It's all about catching cards at the right time time. GLTU.

 

[VictorOd]

I need a silence, that's it. Preferably alone in the room. Also to be fresh, not sleepy, not hungry or thirsty. But these are obvious common things.

 

[dimon4ik89]

In order to fully concentrate on playing poker, I listen to different music. I tried playing in silence and tried watching a movie while playing, but I get the best results from playing when I listen to music. When I play freerolls, I can watch a movie while playing poker. Personally, music helps me to play online poker better, in live poker I like to play in silence, and to communicate with opponents who play with me at the same table.

 

[elJenio8]

I like to focus on how is playing..

People try to change his styles, but if im not paying attention, i listen to music also

 

[EmiTou]

My best mode of concentration is absolute silence, any noise will take me out of the axis from which I should not move away.

 

[makisaa]

I chooze a good place to sit and play as comfortable as it is possible and I hear good quality music!

 

[MattFalkirk]

There are a few good chill music streams that i put on in the background. I'm convinced the chilled out music helps me from tilting also haha

 

[daniel888]

I think firstly we should have a good mood and feel very well. And having a cup of coffee, tee or listening some light music will help us pay attention on playing poker better.

 

[RimworldDoctor]

I think firstly we should have a good mood and feel very well. And having a cup of coffee, tee or listening some light music will help us pay attention on playing poker better.

Coffee does it for me too. Have you seem an improved performance when you have some caffeine in you?

When I haven't had my morning coffee, I start to lose focus on multiple tables In that sense, coffee can be a performance enhancing drug. Jokes aside, I've seen some pro-gamers use adderall to maintain their focus in big events. I wonder if any poker players do that too.

 

[AllenKll]

I find I tend to do better when I'm not so intensely focused on the game. When I focus on the game, I'm always looking for ways to angle or apply pressure or bluff, every pot I see go to someone, I think, that could have been mine!

When I pay less attention, I can stick to my game rules, which work, and I make the money. I usually scroll reddit, when I only have one table up. If I have 3 tables, going, there is enough distraction between jumping table to table, so I can not worry about anything else.


2 tables is tough.. I still look at reddit, but not as intensely.

So what do I do to focus? Try not to focus.

 

[emanuelorteg]

I'm very bad at concentrating so I need a quiet space, or after a cup of coffee or tea, I can also relax listening to classical music or movie music

 

[Dhendrixon]

I prefer to play in silence to pay attention to people. Just started really playing serious poker and up my game. When I am not in the hand I try to place ranges on people and see if I can spot mistakes.

 

[shibdevvar]

I listen to rock music to concentrate on the poker tables, what do you do?​

Listen energy boosting music, keep silent and play obviously keep snacks and water on tbale.

 

[sn0112]

Good question

I have a few rules which seem to help

- Total silence
- Quiet time of day
- All day to day tasks on my mind need to be complete (out of the way)
- I have a job, so all work tasks need to be complete
- I won't play if I'm on tilt, in a bad mood, or have something getting me down

Whenever I compromise on any of these rules I find that I have a losing session

 

[pablo lima]

drinking coffee

 

[LitPavel]

Me, too, seems when I'm distracted a bit from the table I better play) try to listen to music today during the game, look many this helps and this is already a trend).

 

[GeckoAA]

When playing poker I seem to be able to concentrate just fine without doing anything in particular. My house is very quiet to begin with.

I do find when I get quite deep in a tournament and I'm doing quite well, I need a distraction because then I overthink too much, so I open another micro table. This helps me, but it seems like a weird quirky thing to do.

 

[WarrenCushing]

If you are interested in the game, you will have no problem. If your bored, time to give it a rest.

 

[anadrijav]

Enjoy the game and let yourself go, concentration comes by itself.