Do you fully focus on the table while playing?

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I like to listen to music while playing. But if I reach the FT I generally turn off the music to focus all my concentration on the game
I was listening to music one time and someone asked me who I was listening to , I told them Lady Gaga, the whole table busted up laughing , they thought I was lying, which I wasn't.
 
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When I am relaxed, I watch another platform while playing, but when it is Strong Tournament, I only listen to music.
 
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If the game is very important to me then I try to focus only on the game but if not then sometimes I watch a video stream on twitch or just a video on youtube but still in most cases I prefer to play without distractions !!!
 
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Hello,
So I usually always watch something on the side. At the moment the EPT Live is on, of course I'm watching :)
 
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No. It is impossible, and a strain, to constantly fix all of your concentration on one thing. Online I'll watch movies, read things, send emails, listen to music, watch YouTubes, and other things. In live tournaments I'll look at my opponents, around the room, something on the television, etc...
 
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You hear music while playing? What type of songs?
You watch TV? Movies? Tv show? Program?
Play other game?
Other stuff? What?

I watch some tv shows while playing :censored:
i want to win all games so it's rarely i listen songs or watch tv while i played,
 
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It depends on how slow the game is going, how many games I may be playing, etc. I usually have the tv on to something mindless that doesn’t matter if I’m following closely; more for just background noise and the odd distraction when I need it.
 
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Sometimes completely focused on the game, sometimes full focus gets in the way, so I do something else in the background.
 
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I know the theory that it is best to focus only on the game, but as I play online I often do something else while waiting for the cards.

When I get to the point where the game starts to get serious, i.e. I manage to pot a few times then I focus on winning.
 
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I'm already used to playing poker and watching some live together, if I don't do that the game gets very tedious.
 
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You hear music while playing? What type of songs?
You watch TV? Movies? Tv show? Program?
Play other game?
Other stuff? What?

I watch some tv shows while playing :censored:
If you play for entertainment, as a personal hobby or to amuse yourself, there’s no problem of playing poker while doing other things.
However, if you want to look at poker as a serious job and a career, I would recommend an ideal and clean environment, where you can fully concentrate and put all of your mind and body at the tables.
Music, television, neighbors, family, friends and most of all, cellphones are the greatest enemies of full concentration, which we need to give our top mind focused performance.
When I sit at the tables I turn off my cellphone, take water to drink so I don’t need to get up, have a balanced meal first eating good but not excessively, things like vegetables, fruits that can potentially increase my performance, I solve all of my problems and personally I don’t enjoy to listen to music while playing, for I consider music a bit of distraction.
I had a girlfriend that used to sleep by the side of the computer I was playing, and she used to snore and that used to broke my concentration and even irritated me, that I have lost considerable amounts of hands because if her lovely snorting :ROFLMAO:
But as I said before, all of this care make part of a full mindset of a warrior, who really looks at poker as a regular job and wants to apply the Minimax theory as much as possible.
 
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Nah, I pretty much always have something going on YouTube or the television.
 
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Not at begin of tournament. But later, when less of 10 % players are remaining, then yes off course. On begin I play mostly one another table.
 
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If I pay close attention to my rivals where I also take notes on each one. These are things I was learning after more than 20 years of playing poker.
 
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When I'm playing, I try to avoid doing anything other than concentrating on the game, but I play many tables at the same time since I play such a table it would be boring not to do anything other than play
 
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I dont fully focus on the table while playing poker.

While I play poker I usually watch some youtube videos or listen to some music and sometimes I watch adult content.
Depending on the mood.
 
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I play on 4 tables and have the TV on, but only for listening, you can't watch
 
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Listening to music while playing the game helps a lot to keep my concentration on the game.
 
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I almost always play while watching something in the corner of the screen. Or listening to some music.
 
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I listen to music, I am 100% focused with the tables on the screen and my only distraction could be said to be my cell phone, I always keep in mind that it is a great advantage over others to be aware of how they play and that helps you a lot in achieving having control at the poker table in the aspect of knowing how to play a certain player because you manage to decipher his movements that he usually does
 
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I can't be totally focused at the game table, I lose my patience after 2-3 hours so I listen to music, watch football, drink
 
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Different, sometimes I listen to music sometimes I watch a movie, there is no rule. It all depends on what I'm in the mood for, sometimes I prefer to focus only on the game.
 
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Not always, because sometimes I play several tournaments at the same time, so it's not convenient to follow only one
 
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