Playing on Autopilot

[Sciolist]

Hello,

I am a total auto-pilot player. I play as many tables at once as possible. I rarely know much about the players on my tables, though I always look at every showdown and add notes to players based on that.

This is obviously hurting my chances of improving at the game. It's not that I don't think about it - I do, but only after the games are done. I've read pretty much every book out there, and I understand them.

I also win, albeit at the mid limits, live or online.

Does anyone have any advice on what I could be doing? How do you concentrate on a smaller number of tables? I get bored pretty fast. I have been seen 5 tabling and reading the newspaper at the same time. Live is a little different, as there's table banter, things to watch after folding, etc. However, I often lapse into not concentrating, as that's how I play online.

Any advice appreciated.