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addam00

How do you regain your focus back.

Ok... this  post  please  dont  talk  about  anybody  else  exeept yourself  becasue i know  sometimes this po0sts wonder off.t yourself...  when  you are playing and  your  losing focus  and brain is  not going well  what  do you
to gain it back.... I know I postd domething like this awile back  but there are new members and I want to  other  perspective...
Miklosik

I will sit out for a round and do online sudoku puzzles.  Gets my mind straight again.
Know-nuffin

I lose a pot making a dumb call...

That is usually enough to make me pay attention again.

L0gan

I wish only lose a pot XD

If im piss i go all in, lose, then the focus is back and go search to another Game  
harry_lime

concentration online has always been a problem for me as opposed to live where i can happily go for hours. when i used to play more often in the longer tournaments, i would put stickers on my monitor saying things like "don't do it", "concentrate", "be patient", etc, just as visible reminders to myself so i wouldn't lose my way.

i also found standing up and walking around a bit when out of a hand helps clear your head a bit.
PoolDemon

online vs live, it's very easy to lose focus online, as live there is constant banter, good looking ladies wandering around, the occasional scream from a bad beat, it keeps ya going for hours at a time no problem...

online poker, now that gets tough, especially if only playing one table, like you would in a big tourny, sometimes, I turn on my xbox & play golf or anything can you don't need to totally focus on to play, so that I can keep an eye on the table also, otherwise, the only other thing to do is multi table, when you get up to 8 tables open at the same time, you don't have a chance to let your mind wander...
Arjonius

PoolDemon wrote:
when you get up to 8 tables open at the same time, you don't have a chance to let your mind wander...

That doesn't work for me, at least not most of the time.  If I'm having difficulty maintaining focus on one table, there's seldom an improvement trying to play more.  What happens is that I end up playing two or more tables poorly instead of just one.

What does work for me- again most of the time - is reducing distractions.  So if I'm surfing, doing e-mail, watching a movie... I stop.  Or I do that and stop playing poker.
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