In What Mode Do You Focus Best? Part One
In What Mode Do You Focus Best? Part 1 By B. Butler The commodity of attention is arguably as important as anything else, from poker chips to position to cards. The more information you gather against your poker opponents as profile is more data you can use to correctly decide how to respond to their actions, which in proper usage, and with best luck, results in positive gain. But because there are so many inputs in any given hand, and often many that are more subtle than to always know where to look, how do we best open ourselves or put ourselves in a state where we can operate to the maximum potential? First, getting your mind on watching the action and the movement of your opponents (if you are in a live game) before looking at your cards and thinking about what you are going to do when it is your turn is vital. Many Everest Poker players will watch each other player act around the table before it gets to them before looking to see what is in the hole. This serves the dual purpose of both seeing what the other players do, how they respond to looking at their own cards, how they move toward their chips, and so on, and also removes the information you might broadcast early if you know the whole time what your hand is and therefore anticipate what you are going to do.