Talking To Yourself While Playing Poker?

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I have started talking to myself when playing online, I find it relaxing and makes me play better :) Anybody else do this? I like to think about ranges and all strategy involved so that I can assess things slower and make sure my moves are good, Even if its in your head do you guys think out the hand instead of just doing it to do it, I especially talk to myself when playing heads up, Is this weird or normal?
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Sometimes to make me pay attention I pretend that there is somebody that talks out every action of the players at the table.
 
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i usually talk with computer. But mostly when i got bad beat
 
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I've always talked to myself anyway, but I do find that cussing and screaming at the PC in the event of a nasty beat helps me to vent and not go on tilt.
 
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Certainly ! i always find myself saying things like: "it was not to be call", "in this situation i had to wait for QQ+", "I had to have made the cbet". I think it helps to think better at the game, what you're doing, whether it's right or wrong.
 
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Its sorta wierd, but I have definately in the past talked out every decision that I am making out loud as if I was making a training video.. Its sorta wierd but I definately found myself to be making better decisions while I was doing this.
 
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I usually go over it in my head. Haven't tried talking to myself yet ...my wife would probably have me committed.
 
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I do it a lot after I make a mistake to try and learn, and remember it
 
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My Great-grand-mother (who raised me) use to say, "It's okay to talk to yourself, as long as you don't answer yourself." Always thought that was funny, of course I'm easily amused.
 
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I usually find myself yelling at my PC in the wee hours of the night. At a time I can use swear words and I think no one can hear me. One summer evening I opened my bedroom window for the first time and had a crazy night of bad beats and crazy players. My new neighbor: whom I didn't know moved in yet, spoke to me the next morning and he said it was too funny to hear me all night long and he knew I was alone.
 
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I swear at myself a lot when I play really badly :D
 
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Ohhh God ! Yes .. talking to myself ? YES ! And everybody tell cause i look like a idiot :)))) They believe me crazy , '' who talks alone with a laptop '' ? Yes , i am one of them . When i am mad i look like a crazy kid .
 
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I had a coach who greatly encouraged talking (to yourself) through a hand or street decision. It will certainly help your game.
 
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Yes, if you are alone and are in a big game of poker it is a priority to concentrate well on what is happening. Therefore the question is should you talk to yourself, the real question is why not? Speaking about ranges and what the odds are etc is much better coming out of your mouth than getting messed up with thoughts in your mind.
 
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yeah, my wife thinks its funny that I talk to myself when I play and it makes me laugh which in turn makes me play better lol.
 
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Not a great habit to get into if you want to play live poker, but I do it at home sometimes. GF usually thinks I'm talking to her, ha! Still hoping I can talk her into being interested in the game but she is hooked on Facecrack :9d4:
 
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Not a great habit to get into if you want to play live poker, but I do it at home sometimes. GF usually thinks I'm talking to her, ha! Still hoping I can talk her into being interested in the game but she is hooked on Facecrack :9d4:

Really not that bad live either - hell, Negreanu does it.
 
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:D:D:DI use to whistle some oldies , its like under the shower:D:D:D
 
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I do it often. IMO it is a little weird, I hope that it is nothing wrong :) Usually I comment my game like Norman Chad and LON McEachern :D from ESPN TV.
 
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I do it quite often. Its good to prevent you from going button clicking mode and to think properly and rationalise your actions. When I tilt I grunt and punch the wall. lol
 
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I started talking to myself away from all forms of poker...Walking down the street "That mofo really had AK, how the **** you play AK like that" (Mind you I'm thinking this is in my head, but it's out loud and the wife will be like, Abdi your doing it again, calm down...

That is the reason it's a bad habit to get into, True story I did it a-couple of times on the bus, a-couple of times in Mc-Donalds/Convenience stores, and while walking with the kids to the park and so forth and so on (Now they all think I'm crazy)...

I even recall one time I swear in my sleep I was yelling the cards out and something to do with (THERE IS NO WAY HE HAS A KING, **** HE HAD THE KING), I startled the kids and the wife, and did not even know I was doing it
 
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I started talking to myself away from all forms of poker...Walking down the street "That mofo really had AK, how the **** you play AK like that" (Mind you I'm thinking this is in my head, but it's out loud and the wife will be like, Abdi your doing it again, calm down...

That is the reason it's a bad habit to get into, True story I did it a-couple of times on the bus, a-couple of times in Mc-Donalds/Convenience stores, and while walking with the kids to the park and so forth and so on (Now they all think I'm crazy)...

I even recall one time I swear in my sleep I was yelling the cards out and something to do with (THERE IS NO WAY HE HAS A KING, **** HE HAD THE KING), I startled the kids and the wife, and did not even know I was doing it

yeah man i see the bad habit part, i think being humble and realizing poker is essentially getting tougher and tougher now, and taking what you can in terms of wins is all you can accept, this ain't 2003 or whatever where anyone can just go print money
 
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