I'm going to reread through what I wrote last week for the game tomarrow and spend sometime visualizing it. A few other simple things that I need to work on in live games:
- paying attention to live reads
It's very hard to stay focused in long, slow, live games. Plus I'm more used to 6max and using a HUD, so I definitely need to work on staying focused, spotting useful things, and finally remember and recalling them when needed. I can do this by getting plenty of sleep and
...rereading my notes on players and thinking about how to exploit them
...having more fun in the game
...maybe setting some sort of reward for myself
Hmm, I really need to work on things I can do to make this easier.
- keeping track of the size of the pot with chips
I can do this by just keeping track of the bets. It's a little more mental work, but hopefully in time will become very natural.
- not looking at my hand until the action is around to me
This one should be easy. Often I'm a bit nervous about all the eyes being on me and my inexperience counting out bet/raise sizes while people are watching. Plus I feel like people are rushing through and I usually go ahead and look at my cards so I can do most of the thinking before the action gets to me. But this isn't the best. It doesn't matter as much at this level, but it's a habit that I would do well to start developing now.
- counting out bet sizes more quickly and steadily
Something all experienced players do well. Many don't even need to count the chips but just pull out the amount they want to bet by feel. At the moment, if I need to bet 10 chips, I'll have to count. It will be nice to be able to just pull 10 off the top of my stack.
Pretty simple habits I need to start working on.
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