Staying Awake?

I spend a lot of time folding which is a reasonable strategy but I find myself getting kind of sleepy. Any good ideas (besides caffiene) for keeping my brain awake?

Hmmm. Tried listening to music or a book on tape?

Just something to keep your brain working?

-'rilla

Multitabling, if you're up for it, can bring you action faster, and it keeps you busier even if there's no cards at either table.

I personally make sure I'm playing paltry stakes or not at all if I'm tired, as doing otherwise helped me lose $200 over the course of 2 days back in January.

If I'm sleepy 'cause I'm tired I quit for the day.

If I'm sleepy 'cause I'm bored I'll play the "what hand does he have game" with the other players at the table. Good mental exercise for when I do catch a hand I can play.

If I get bored with that I browse FTR in between hands and try to learn more about this silly game!

Dean

Sadly my body has trained itself at this point to get sleepy the minute I stop moving and sit down (like at the computer to play poker) so there's some relearning on my part I need to do. And I'm so not up for mutitabling yet, maybe in a few months.
I'll look into music, as long as Fnord and I can either agree on what to listen to or find some arrangement because we have rather different musical tastes.

Make good use of the note taking feature that most sites offer. If you've folded away watch and record the tendancies of other players. It keeps you busy, and you will likely find yourself in a situation in the future where you will be thanking yourself you had information on that player's tendancies.

A poker player is a machine for turning coffee into clay chips.

Originally Posted by strix

Any good ideas (besides caffiene) for keeping my brain awake?

Exercise right before you sit down for a session, if you feel youself getting tired an hour later click sit out and take a quick walk around the house.

- sed

i second the idea to take more notes between hands. i am CONSTANTLY reading the hand histories from the previous hand so that i can see what cards the players mucked at showdown, and why they played them so far, and what position they were in when they entered pre-flop, and whether they raised or cold called, etc. then i enter this information into the player notes. so much so, that when i get dealt a playable hand, i'm sometimes annoyed because i'm in the middle of my analysis and note taking. i stay so busy doing this that i never get tired.

ChezJ

Originally Posted by ChezJ

then i enter this information into the player notes. so much so, that when i get dealt a playable hand, i'm sometimes annoyed because i'm in the middle of my analysis and note taking.
ChezJ

LOL--The reason you sat at the poker table in the first place is now no longer your primary reason for sitting at the table. You must really like your notes....