Biggest Difficulty When Playing Poker?

i am not very patient or lets say i am not patient enough so i lose alot by calling with 78s and stuff like that because i want to play a hand .. i know its wrong and i will get over it someday but well its a long road

jfofla said:

my biggest difficulty in playing poker is when I'm playing with players who keep writing profanity and trying to take away their opponent's taenia, it annoys me deeply.

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Why don't you just disable chat? After all it's mostly NH, GH, TY and profanity.

Wanting to gamble instead of play poker. Yes, playing poker is gambling, but I mean getting to a point where I want to call an all-in on a flush & straight draw just for the thrill of the risk.

My biggest problem is finding the right places to be aggressive. Timely aggression is the name of the game, but being able to determine when to correctly apply aggression is tricky. Sometimes you have good cards, turn up aggression and lose out on chips when you win, other times you barrel at a scare card on the board, only to have the opponent raise and/or stick around to win at showdown. Last night when I was playing the deck went dry on me, and I was unwillingly playing way too tight. When I got some decent (not too decent suited connectors on the button) cards for opening pre-flop, one of the blinds comes in over the top with a pair of ladies.

My biggest challenge is maintaining my discipline. There are times when I stray away from playing how I would usually play due to lack of patience.

When playing hours of tournament and tired, I do not pay more attention to playing the opponents and is a very serious mistake.

Just in case anybody who is bothered by chat doesn't know how to turn it off in the pokerstars client. Go to Settings / Table Appearance / Chat.



Deselect "Show player messages". You can also deselect "Show Observer messages" if you're seeing annoying chat from non-players. Then click on "Apply Changes" at the bottom.



You'll still get the normal Dealer messages, like who won the hand and how much they won, but not the annoying chat.

the decision to fold a very good hand

getting angry is more than just concentrating on the game

Patience for me. Yeah its hard but i'm trying to be relax.

Remaining dispassionate during a bad run can be tough. Emotional irrationality in decision making at the table is only useful when trying to purposefully present yourself as on-tilt. Multi-tabling helps my focus.

Winning in Poker is my difficulty. Along with bad beats, Not making the right calls or playing to tight or to aggressive.

What is your biggest difficulty with Poker?

Mine is to have a healthy mind after 6h of the game. Due to the volume I apply, I feel very tired mentally. When there are signs of this, I start to stop opening new tables.

Patience. Going into a tourney knowing it will be long and trying to gradually grow my stack as opposed to calling off bingo players. This is easier for me multitabling.

Biggest difficulty

Patience is surely key to the game, but also can be our biggest opponent. It seems many of the sites reward poor poker play, and many of the good players end up getting destroyed by it. I have played on many of the sites, and typically when getting beat out of a tournament it is typically by someone with a chump starting hand.

I have a hard time reading what the opponent might have or not ! Sometimes I just miss to see the other possibilities on the table before I call or fold!

My difficulty is playing against recreational players if its a shorter stack format with fast blinds.

Mateo said:

Patience. Going into a tourney knowing it will be long and trying to gradually grow my stack as opposed to calling off bingo players. This is easier for me multitabling.

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Patience is a common difficulty and easy to work with. Just study in depth.

NickCarbino said:

Patience is surely key to the game, but also can be our biggest opponent. It seems many of the sites reward poor poker play, and many of the good players end up getting destroyed by it. I have played on many of the sites, and typically when getting beat out of a tournament it is typically by someone with a chump starting hand.

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Often bad beat is a trigger to trigger the "Psychological Bomb" and end your game. In some moments this stress goes beyond the table and ends up reflecting in the life of the players. Thing which is extremely harmful.
Just as we study strategy, we need to study the mind.

clasrasmusso said:

it is to play a lot, as well as to be patient and not to be irritated by anyone on the table.​

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Angry in what sense do you say?
Play or chat?

ChrisDavidson said:

My biggest problem at the beginning of the game, when I'm just starting to play, is taking the wrong decisions because 100% is not focused on the game

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This is due to what? Thoughts, TV ..?
When this happens to me, they are usually thoughts of everyday things.
To be able to control most of the time I started to meditate and this is helping me a lot.

Go into anger, that's my worst moment when a fish wins me with a useless hand