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Hey, c'mon now, you know I meant poker. Keep it clean [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img].
I've seen a couple of recommendations here on 2+2 to make boring stretches of time (traffic, DMV waits, interminable conference calls) better by thinking about various poker situations and how you'd handle them. Seems like a pretty good idea to me as it both improves my play and takes my mind off how bored I am at the moment. So, what kind of situations do you conjure up for yourself? Hands that crippled or busted you in a tourney last night? Totally imaginary hands? Role playing as a maniac or rock? |
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I picture capping with the nuts vs 5 players.
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When I'm trying to last longer to please a woman, I think about flopping the nut straight and capping it 7 ways on a 2-flush board.
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When I'm trying to last longer to please a woman, I think about flopping the nut straight and capping it 7 ways on a 2-flush board. ~D [/ QUOTE ] That doesn't work for me. I have to think about bad beats: flopping trip jacks that fill up on the river, only to lose to quad 5's. |
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lol...good question...I think about my four aces getting whipped by a royal on the bad beat table...ahhh...I hate losing with four aces...but I could make an exception.
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I think about 77 in the hole and the flop comes 7,J,7 rainbow. I check, pre flop raiser bets(hmm I smell JJ poor fool is drawing to one out and has no clue whats going on) so I just call. Turn is blank 3 I check,he bets, I raise, he re raises, I re raise we're capped. This guy is so inlove with his hooks that he hasn't stopped to remotely consider what I could possibly be raising him with. You guessed it river brings the miracle J. I check, he bets, I call and can't bare to look. He flips them over one at a time, OUCH.
I think about this in traffic because it actually happened |
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I think about playing some hands with Phil Hellmuth.
First, in a hand I am not in, he berates a player with something along the lines of "No professional would raise me there..." and I turn around and say "Phil, shut the !$# up." Then I get aces UTG and limp, it is folded around to Hellmuth in the small blind and he raises, big blind folds and I push sending Phil into a tizzy. Then I get ducks in the big blind, folded to Hellmuth who raises. I call. Flop is A22. Hellmuth bets, I call. Turn is a K. Hellmuth bets and I call. River is a ten. Hellmuth checks, I bet, he raises, I push. I have a long commute. |
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....I have a long commute. [/ QUOTE ] and a serious disdain for Phildo |
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The part of my game that I'm working on these days is maintaining focus. Really it's all about staying in the present moment.
That's easier said than done, especially in ring games, which can be as boring as being stuck in traffic. So when I'm in stuck traffic, I spend my time focusing on being stuck in traffic. It doesn't have to be boring. Look around, there is an infinite number of things to see. Stay present. Then, when I'm at the poker tables. I (try to) spend my time focusing on the hand in front on me. That is what helps my poker game the most. And it also keeps me from getting into an accident. |
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I try to think of my favorite hands I've played. The ones like check-raising 3rd st in stud with rolled up Kings, then check-raising again on 4th st when the 4th K hit me. I get wood just thinking about that hand.
Or my other favorite stud hand, I'm dealt rolled up 7s, and get running diamonds to make the 7-J straight flush. Everyone kept looking around the board saying "but all the diamonds are already out" Or heads up a few weeks ago at a $1/$2 table, we put in 33 raises preflop when I had AA. Throughout the entire hand, the only buttons I clicked were bet and raise. |
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