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 Does anyone else get bored?, Mark, 14. May 2003 11:09 | ||
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| Does anyone else get bored with online play? Over the last couple of weeks, i haven't enjoyed playing online. I find myself bored and impatient most of the time, and ofcourse, have been having losing sessions because of it. I find the games monotonous and detached. Maybe it has something to do with it being spring time and the weather is nice. Just a few months ago, poker was my life, i was either playing or reading about it, every free minure. Now i have thoughts about quitting. I have really bad mood swings after a loss, which are more frequent because of my undisciplined play. Has anyone else gone through this? Mark | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, philly, 14. May 2003 11:29 | ||
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| I find good background music does wonders for my patience and concentration. | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, shorn, 14. May 2003 11:42 | ||
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| Mark- I have had times like this where I am either bored or just not interested in playing, especially online. It gets like anything else that you do too much. The worst thing to do at a time like this is to keep playing, especially if you are losing. Take a week off, hell, take a month off. Play golf, hang out with your significant other, go to the gym ,whatever. Personally, afdter my last bad run, I haven't played in over five weeks and I feel great. I have read here and there and posted to try and settle down. I am confident that when I go back this weekend, I will be in a great frame of mind to play well. No one is good or disciplined enough to play anything straight through without breaks. Even Tiger Woods takes 3 and 4 weeks off in a row during the year...you should too. Good luck, Steve | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, TKarrde, 14. May 2003 12:05 | ||
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| Boredom will happen. Especially when you can't look around a table at live people. I usually try doing something else. Reconciling bank statements, paying bills, cleaning up the office. If I don't do that then I am playing 3 hands at a time. Like to throw in something odd too. Like Pineapple or Omaha 8b. I am the same way. I get bored and I play worse. But enjoy the Spring and find the online tables on a nasty rainy night. TK | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, john ray, 14. May 2003 16:14 | ||
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| Yes, it can get REALLY boring on-line. Keep your sessions short( for me no more than 2 hours at a time). When I'm in a funk like that , I try to make sure I quit with a win of some kind for a few days in a row. John | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, flintsword, 14. May 2003 17:54 | ||
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| Let's not confuse being bored with being burned out here folks. If you are burned out, take a break. If you are bored, may I suggest a different point of view: you are (mildly) lazy and wasting a golden opportunity to improve your game. You improve your game and banish boredom by calculating pot odds for the players in the game even when you are not in the hand. You help your game and forget you are bored if you try to figure out (with pen and paper please ...) what hands are possible in the people playing the current hand. You improve your understanding of the current game and boredom takes second place to good habits when you reevaluate each player with a more complex set of criterion, so the "loose player" becomes "loose passive liking to play suited garbage raises with 88 and up but slowplays AK offsuit" or better descriptions. Everyone gets bored but one of the hallmarks of good players is discipline. There is higher ground in poker, but there is work to do and there is no time like the present. Hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings ... And hope you take my comment as constructive. flintsword | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, Big_Slick, 14. May 2003 20:27 | ||
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| Great post flintsword. I like to try to figure out what each person has in the hole.. or at least what they are trying for (top pair, flush draw, a set, etc.) You can learn a lot when you're not playing. | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, NiceFella, 14. May 2003 20:22 | ||
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| I think online poker is horribly boring all the time. I absolutely need to see the people I am playing with to read them. I need to see whether they are paying attention, what sort of small talk they make, what sort of criticisms and recommendations they make, whether they sigh with exasperation when that third heart comes out, etc. Does it take them forever to count out the right number of chips? Do they even know what the big blind option is? This information, which is missing online, is what allows me to judge their hand, their skill level, and their style. In person, I can joke around, play head games, or try to intimidate players. Online, I'm just a name on the screen. Plus it's so much more fun to be with people. Online play is lonely, disconnected, and artificial. This is poker? NiceFella | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, knightsky69, 14. May 2003 21:22 | ||
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| when i play online i always listen to a streaming winamp radiostation, and between hands i try to read,, the worst thing you can do is play a crapy hand because you just folded the last 5 hands | ||
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| Re: Does anyone else get bored?, stdioh, 15. May 2003 10:10 | ||
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| If you are bored, it *might* (might might might, not does) mean that you are ready to move up in limits. Boredom often goes hand in hand with not respecting the limit at which you choose to play. | ||
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