Learn to Pay Attention
Poker is supposed to a game for alert people. I thought that this was a generally understood concept until that I realized that there are a lot of people signing up for poker online games these days who just don’t follow the action. While this is annoying enough in an online poker, it is particularly vexing when this happens in a live game. There is no automatic action button to press when you play a live game. It should be pretty obvious why you need to pay attention at the poker table, but let’s recap the reasons so that I will not have to sit through another poker game with new players with their heads in the clouds.
When you pay attention to the game and know when you are supposed to act, than you keep the game going at a steady speed. If you slow down the game, no one at the table will appreciate it very much. You will get many unsavory looks from your fellow players if you slow the game down to a snail’s pace because you are not paying attention. An added perk of actually paying attention to the game that you are paying to play is that you will not lose out on any potential winnings. If you are not paying attention and don’ realize that you have won, than you don’t get the money. The lure of some cold hard cash should be enough to get you paying attention.