nervous playing live

[perrypip]

We all are going to get more nervous face to face than online. But I like to be friendly and social at the table and that helps me when others at the table are friendly.

When bluffing, I remind myself that by getting caught I will get more calls with my made hands, and by not being called I win the hand. What matters is am I bluffing at the correct GTO frequency. Some of those bluffs are going to be caught that's part of the game.

I go through the same thought process online but it's tougher live. It's a lot easier to get tilted live and then the slow rate of play just drags it out. At home playing online its easy to take a break.

 

[samsonand]

Does anyone know how high the level of nerves can be in a live game, and what would be the best practice to combat it

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[bra01]

Now I must control myself to manage the game. Try to be a poker face. I will be nervous when there is a big pot. So I will wear masks and long-necked clothes when playing live poker to avoid showing horses.

 

[Jr28edhill]

Nervous...?

So playing on line I rarely get nervous playing cash or tournaments. Unless its final table in tournament. But that does not affect performance as there is no person to read by their mannerisms.


House games I do not get nervous regardless of what's at stake.
However playing cash af Parx Casino here in PA in the USA I always seemed to get nervous. So I had a routine to quiet the nerves down before I even sat at a table. One of those routine acts was to always go to the restroom as it gives time for things to sink in. But after a few minutes at a table the nerves go away. Just go p kml at and eventually the nerves go away.

 

[Shrops]

Diff

Playing live is very different to online poker. I grew up playing live poker and believe it is the truer game of poker. To me sitting face to face against fellow players is the best way to play poker. Players do learn the gist of the game faster online today. They see more hands and can multi-table online. Poker may play a little slower live but it is a more complete game.

 

[rj_montana]

I found myself literally shaking the first few times playing live at casinos lol. Home games with friends not as much pressure.

 

[Enimen18]

Playing live is significantly more nerve racking than online play. It takes most people a significant amount of time to overcome nervousness in live games. Eventually you get used to it, but there will always be more nerves than in online. A lot of newer players show a significant tell when they bluff in live games. They will shake when placing their bet. However I was the opposite. I would shake when I placed a bet on a strong hand but was perfectly steady when bluffing. So tells can also be deceiving.

Since you can't see players in online games, aren't handling chips, players can't talk to you and you are only pressing buttons it takes a ton of nervousness out of the game. But there are still some nerves involved, after all it is still involving risking your money.

 

[Cooking]

Most of the times I play live with only friends, only a few times I played live with unknown people and yes I felt so nervous all the times, like I was doing everything wrong..lol

 

[swerdnase]

Nerves are just a natural human reaction to adrenaline. The way to overcome it is to remember to take deep breaths and take time with your decisions. Don't react, just breathe. When the game slows down, so does your heart rate, and hopefully, your nerves along with it.

 

[Dalyn]

I try to be calm and it often helps to not realize for how much money I play

 

[kraemer]

The best idea would be to not get nervous at all and just play your a-game...

You will not know how nervous you get until you try it. Maybe people who
only played online before should start a home game to at least get a basic feel
for live games and how actually sitting next to your opponents increases the need
to play the opponents not the cards.

Make sure to play micro stakes with money you can afford to lose... Then you
shouldn't have a real reason to get very nervous.

 

[abpoker]

If you've never played live, you are almost definitely going to be nervous. Online, you are probably only mostly worried about your play. Live, you are probably worried about your play, but also the fact that people are watching you as well. And often, speaking to you or even about you. So most likely, it will affect your performance by making you worried more about what people will think, or say, so you're thinking about that, and not wanting to mess up and look stupid. You are probably also going to be a little shaky sometimes, when making a bet. Which, for better or for worse, can often be whether you have a strong hand, or not. But, like most things, it gets easier. You start to just get used to it, and eventually, it's mostly a non issue. But, even down the road when you're comfortable, there will likely still be those times, where a certain hand or certain hand against a certain player, will still make you nervous. But you just gotta get out there and do it. Good luck.

 

[elizeuof]

In my first time playing live I made a Royal straight flush on the flop, this was great to make me play better the others hands and I has finished in second place this day, but at all I need to improve more my live game.

In the second time I play live, close to the buble I lost with AKs to QQ after the villain goes allin in a flop with KKQ.

Study a little about live tells, prefer to see all the players reaction when we are seeing theirs cards, see yours after all the others players.

Some clubes are worst to play, I had heard about people seem and tell to others yours cards, colussion, marked cards... I advice you to choose with careful where you will play.

 

[gryphon3005]

Yes I was nervous starting out at the casino but like others here have said the nerves settle down. But, what you must deal with is your tendency to show some kind of reaction to your hand when you look at your cards. If you have a monster you will give some sort of tell without realizing it. To avoid this most amateurs in live play look at their cards as soon as they get them. If you look around the table as the dealer is dealing all you see are the tops of their heads as the players take a peek. The idea is to try to calm down after seeing the big hand and hope no one notices because they were busy checking their cards. Even then you find it difficult to bet when it's your turn. You try to select your chips and place them without screwing up with a shaking hand or a chip fumble. When you do it all calmly and are proud of yourself you start to worry that you are too quiet...lol.

 

[jorgejarapy]

playing the line allows you to express all your emotions since only you will know what is happening to you at that moment, be it good or bad emotions. While playing live many times you should avoid showing emotions as these can end up revealing your hand and in addition to warning players about your next moves, that is my opinion. which is why I often prefer to play online

 

[Bigfish420]

Yh sure I get nervous when playing live as it’s new people I don’t know and I think they might judge me and so my play might be slightly different to online because I’m with these people face to face and if I make a bad play they will see it and I’ll see the look on there face and there response to what happens