Post your pre-game routine

[TheHip41]

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I fire up PT for auto-importing, PA HUD, Empire and Eurobet.

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You fire up Empire, and Eurobet? Is this allowed?

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At this moment I have Party, Empire, Multi, and Eurobet going. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I am playing on two, mining on two.

[tongni]

I would pay $50 for a program that automatically got you on the waiting lists of the 8 games with the highest average pot sizes.

[RPMick]

Similar to your setup but I think you're missing a few steps. I'm sure along your travels you've come across absolute wild money donors. These people need to be on your buddy list and your first stop should be the search function. Pop those tables up and wait for a seat to their left.

Other thing you should probably do, if you're not doing it already, is exporting your notes from PT. Again, look for some loose players in your waiting list tables and get seats on their left as well.

I do those two things first. If none of the above are available, I'll take a seat at the first table with an open seat with the largest avg pot.

You didn't mention having the tables open while you're on the wait list. Add that in so you can get a 20+ hand start on any new players you encounter. After I've found my way into a seat at the tables I've been observing I'll hang out and play until it becomes rocked down to %20 VP$iP. Then it's time to move on.

With two skin capability I might suggest you use one to scout and play on the other. Random scattered thoughts. Hope it made some kind of sense.

-Ryan

[Rudbaeck]

I go to the toilet.
I get a huge glass of water.
I sit down at the computer.
Load up Empire+Eurobet. (Well, actually I stop datamining those two skins...)
I search for my online buddies.
I get on the waiting lists for tables with my buddies on em, as long as the table in toto looks decent.
Unless my seat is in some horrible position I accept it when offered. (Across from buddy and surrounded by 2+2'ers would be horrible for example.)
Play commences a table at a time until I have the required number of tables.

[RollaJ]

I never play within the first hour of waking up.
I grind coffee
Brew coffee
Open 2+2 (the stage I am at right now)
Read the BS since last night
Respond with some of my own BS
Pour Coffee
Light a cigarette
Check RB numbers
Check affiliate numbers
Read some more 2+2
Check News/Portfolio
Load Up Some Poker..............

[Hornacek]

My pregame routine:

-Drink 5 or 6 beers
-A few shots

Now I'm ready to go out!

[WarBus]

1) Pick a DVD to watch/listen. Mostly listen so I choose ones with more dialogue. Seasons of Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons work well.

2) Get something to drink.

3) Put my cigarettes anywhere but by my computer. Keeps me from chain smoking. Forces me to sit out on tables and leave the room to smoke and I don't like to sit out.

4) take a leak.

5) Load my DVD, PT, PA, Euro.

6) Start looking for tables. Find a table I like and sit. Usually takes me about 5 minutes to find 4 tables I like. The only time I use the waiting list is when an empty seat I want has been resesrved for a while but won't switch back to available.

6) Open the little screen on Euro that shows time started and hands played.

7) Play.

[stoxtrader]

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1) Wake up.
2) Turn on PC.
3) Go to toilett.
4) Put on coffee.
5) Get back to PC, that have started up by now. Start playing.
6) Run for coffee while folding at early levels of tournaments.
7) Play like a fool because i am not awake yet.
8) Make note to myself to never play before i am properly waken up again.
9. Repeat again the following morning

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FYP

[fooz]

Um. Yeah.

I just went into the kitchen. Poured the coffee. Reached into the fridge for the milk and poured it. I looked down and had just poured orange juice into my coffee.

Guess I'm ready to play!

[Psyonic]

Not one of you said you listen to Kenny Roger's "The Gambler" before you play. Shame on you! May the Poker Gods deal you KK vs AA time and time again until you correct the error of your ways! Heathens!