Pkr.com – Concentration and Maintenance of Good Play
www.pkr.com – As you might well imagine, a tournament such as the World Series main event, would require huge amounts of concentration due to it’s length and size of the field involved. I am sure there are many players that fall by the wayside due to lapses in concentration, although they may not admit that as the reason why.
Despite all this, it is not only in lengthy events that concentration lapses can prove your undoing, and I have personally had one such moment in a tournament a few months ago. When short stacked, there was a player on my right who kept trying to pick up my big blind, announcing ’1,000 more, or 2,000 more’ whenever it had been folded round to us. I had already moved all in on the previous round when he attempted this, and as the last player before this players turn to act folded his cards, I had already made up my mind to do the same again when he tried the same move.
I felt strongly that he was going to announce his usual raise, and so the moment he spoke I announced ‘all in’. The problem was he had announced an all in himself, and I had not been able to catch the words before they left my mouth. It was a real lapse in concentration and I had no overcards to his (J,J) and lost. I have learnt this lesson now and always listen intently to players declarations before making my decisions. It is easy to make smaller mistakes than this though, even in short tournaments.
But if you are paying attention to each hand whether you are involved in it or not, you will keep yourself in a position where you know much about the way your opponents are playing their hands. Moreover, you should hopefully be able to keep your mind from wandering.
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