December 19, 2005
On-Line Poker Mistakes
In their latest episode (#25) the boys over at Poker Diagram were asking for your worst on-line poker mistakes.
This got me thinking about mistakes I make when playing on-line and I would have to say that my main downfall in my current on-line game can be summed up in one word:
Multitasking
Like the great man Zog himself I simply do too many things at once, some examples from the past 24 hours:
- Playing a 7 card stud tourney (freeroll) on Poker Stars while also playing no-limit hold’em over at Poker Champs
- Playing limit hold’em on Poker Stars while also playing no-limit SNG’s on Poker Champs (this one cost me two tourneys through lack of concentration)
- Reading web/e-mail
- Watching TV
- Cooking
- As we speak I am playing while writing this blog entry!
That’s just the past 24 hours!
New years resolution:
Concentrate, concentrate and concentrate!
December 20th, 2005 at 12:39 am
A couple of weeks ago I was playing at a $.10/$.25 NL
table, with a maximum buy-in of $25. I was playing Freecell
while I was waiting for the action to get to me and somehow
the box for ‘call any’ got checked. I ended up calling a $1.80
bet with 8-3 before the flop. It got raised behind me and I had
to fold, so I didn’t even get to see a flop.
I could have just set that money on fire, because I essentially
wasted it.
No more Freecell during poker games!!