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I find that when i'm playing internet poker that i'm quite distracted. I'm always browsing some random websites or watching a movie or sumpn. I am beginning to query whether this is bad for my game because I should prolly be studying my opponents or what not. How can I avoid this? Does this also happen to u guys?
 
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see this and this as a couple of threads more or less similar to your topic.

this could also be worth a read if you feel the distraction is throwing you off your A game, but certainly most like per the first thread I linked its because you are board only running a single table.

Hope these can help.
 
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see this and this as a couple of threads more or less similar to your topic.

this could also be worth a read if you feel the distraction is throwing you off your A game, but certainly most like per the first thread I linked its because you are board only running a single table.

Hope these can help.

Respect....will check it out mon
 
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The final stages of a tournament are the most read dependent. You have to be paying attention. I use to do the same thing. It's bad for your game and its bad for your roll.
 
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i think listening to music could ok, but watching tv or surfing the web are worse because one loses details of the table one is playing and with that loses valuable information which one could use later

the fact is that sometimes one gets bored because there is little action so tryes to do something else
 
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Same thing here, usually because I'm in the room with my wife who is watching the tube. If I find myself losing concentration, I quit!
 
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if it happens to me as well and I think if you're playing a long troneo not bad navigate other pages and you expect the best cards .. or cash if you are playing multiple tables at once would not have to be with other web pages.
 
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I too find myself fighting boredom from time to time when playing online. While I know that it's best to be focused when playing, I have a hard time forcing it. When I try to, I find myself playing with an "I don't care" kind of attitude, which only lasts long enough for me to make a bad decision. Then I remember that I do care and that I don't so much mind losing, as much as I hate to not play my best.

Music is an old go to. Not just listening to it, but building playlists of different kinds of music to fit my particular mood at the time. The actual listening doesn't actually require any effort. I actually watch T.V. in the same sort of way that you might listen to music. I tend to watch shows or movies that I've already seen several times. That way, I don't have to really pay full attention. I can focus on hands when I'm playing hands. When I go card dead, I can glance over to the T.V. and pick it up where it is. I don't usually watch new movies when I'm playing. I record them and watch them later. But for some reason I did try to watch Cloud Atlas three times, while I was playing, before I went "what the hell am I doing?". After all, you have to watch that movie a couple of times from start to finish, with no distraction, in order to piece it together. I will also actually surf the web while playing. But I do it from my laptop, while I play poker on my desktop. One of the things that I do remain disciplined about is that I keep my poker tables in the foreground and don't open any windows on top them. This way if I'm googling something on my laptop and I hear the audio cues that indicate a big pot building, I can push my laptop to the side and pay attention to the action.

The key for me is enough distraction to keep me from getting sick of sitting at my desk, in front of my computer, but not so much that it hinders my ability play. When I get into the zone, I don't see the T.V. or hear the music at all. It's like having the T.V. on as you fall asleep to keep your brain distracted enough that it doesn't get wound up thinking about a bunch of stuff. But if it's too loud then your brain will start trying to process the sounds coming from it. So you want to keep it at a level where you can tune it in or tune it out if you want to.
 
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I'm loving these responses :) I'm so glad am not the only one who have a problem with distractions
 
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For me is not distraction , if I do something else during online poker. I use to play only one table at a time and if i just focus on it , I noticed that I not play as good as possible if I not view websites or watch TV during the game. I get bored and make wrong decisions if I not make them fast . So for me its better to have something else to do. Only on FT I `m so exited to just focus on poker
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I also have this problem when playing online. If i try to play more than 1 table i end up getting frustrated when i strt having 2 or 3 tables all wanting action from me at the same time :mad: . But on the other hand when only playing 1 table and especially during a long drawn out tourny i find myself starting to browse the net and i will go to forums and start posting or go to utube and watch videos. The worst for me is to get bored or frustrated because then i start playing crazy to either get some action and get a big chip stack right away or to lose and then be able to move on to other activities on the web. :stupid:
 
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I think the ideal is that when we play poker we are only aware of what we play and nothing more, for more good or bad that we are as players, be chatting on facebook or something is so pernicious to for us
 
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i usually play a micro limit rush game while playing a tourney too keep me occupied so i dont get bored
 
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I've watched tv (or netflix anyway) on my second screen while I"m playing in the past, but it's caused me a few mistakes (calling when I wasn't paying enough attention to the raises). I'm trying to phase it out, but I'm not gonna lie. Still too many non-poker tabs open on my desktop. . .may have to try carl's idea.
 
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I also have this problem of keeping me focused on the game. I open many tabs of the internet, which of course severely limits the choices of play browsers. I see that many have the same difficulty.
 
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If you use Google Chrome, there's an App called "Stay Focused" which will allow you to block out all the porn, youtube, gossip, and other sites while you play. It can be set up by day and time, so it doesn't have to be permanent. It might help.
 
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