Full House
Join Date: May 2005
Location: st. paul, MO
Posts: 966
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It's also good to slow down the process while playing and really make sure you are thinking through each and every decision. For people without a ton of experience (such as myself), I think this means only playing one or two tables some of the time so we can really pay attention and have the time to think things through. I think I can do a pretty decent job of analyzing a hand and coming to a good, or at least reasonable decision, but I often find myself playing a hand automatically in a SNG or MTT, busting out, and then thinking it through a minute later and realizing I really had made a huge error and should have thought more before I hit that call button or pushed all-in.
Consistently playing your 'A-game' should be the goal. One little lapse in concentration is all it takes to turn a well played tournament into an unnecessary bust. And in ring games, if you are capable of 2BB/hr and play one hand an hour badly because of poor concentration costing you 1BB, well, there goes half your hard-fought profit.
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