Monday, May 21
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Poker Interruption
My parents do not understand the amount of concentration I need when I play poker. They don't know that I'm playing 4 tables and 20 people simultaneously. On each table I come in with 100 dollars, sometimes working it up to over 300 dollars, so at any given time there could be a 200 dollar pot at stake.
My memory is pretty awful unless I'm interested in something and playing 4 tables of poker takes a lot of memory.
There are some things you MUST pay attention to if you want to win and there are some that are optional and most of the time I do remember those too.
So if I decide to play a hand I will be aware of the following,
MUST:
1. My table image at each table (have I been raising a lot? betting or checking flops?)
2. The cards I have.
3. The exact playing style of the person to my left and right (these are the people you can either take a lot of money from or lose a lot from).
4. The most aggresive guy on the table.
5. What position did the raise come from? (I play on 6 people tables, so there are 6 positions).
6. What hand ranges are usually raised from that position? What was the size of his raise? You can narrow down what he has by the position and size of his raise.
7. What position am I in?
8. How many people have called the bet so far and how much money they have?
9. How much money does the person who raised has? (if they have a lot, I can play more gambling style hands that if i hit the miracle cards, I can take his whole massive stack.)
10. How much money I have and how much money do the people who have yet to act have.
So every time I play a hand I think about all these things, I've done it so often it becomes second nature and if someone inturrupted me in this situation I would mostly be okay. The problem comes when I have to answer these 10 questions for 2 or even 3 tables at the same time and I have about 15 seconds to do so. The questions get deeper and more complicated as the hand progresses.
Anyways, I've been doing well and my game has improved a lot. I'm looking forward to September when I won't be inturrupted.
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