How Many Hands Per Hour?

[NoflopsHomer]

Sloppy suggested to me yesterday that I need to use my i-Pod more in Live Poker, as an aid to concentration, & "settling down". Maybe he's right.

I have to totally disagree with this, from a personal point of view anyway. I love my iPod, but I just can't listen to it at the poker table and I find it bizarre that people use them at the table. I tried using it once but I found that I lost the 'feel' of the table and I was missing out on snippets of conversations that might prove helpful and almost 'hermitising' myself in the process by being so withdrawn. As an aid to concentration, for me, it just means it's distracting me from where the focus should be.

Well now, that IS interesting.

At the blonde MasterClass recently, Dave gave a sermon on Tourney Poker, & was asked about the use of I-Pods.

He replied along the lines of "I HAVE to use an i-Pod as an aid to concentration, otherwise peeps want to talk to me, & I miss the little nuances & tells that I can spot if I am "isolated" from the table banter."

In fact, if he arrives at a tourney sans i-Pod, or his battery dies, he gets all of a tither, & will borrow mine or Jens. Though he fell asleep listening to mine, & returned it in disgust, & was astonished to hear the sorta thing "Little Miss Innocent" Jen has on hers!

Horses for courses, see?

I sometimes, a lot of the time, have the ipod earplugs in to make it appear like I have music on but actually I don't. I do this to prevent people small talking me and making me lose my concentration and so I can observe without people knowing.
N

It's very funny you should say that because I was just going to mention a friend of mine who does exactly the same thing.

[tikay]

Sloppy suggested to me yesterday that I need to use my i-Pod more in Live Poker, as an aid to concentration, & "settling down". Maybe he's right.

I have to totally disagree with this, from a personal point of view anyway. I love my iPod, but I just can't listen to it at the poker table and I find it bizarre that people use them at the table. I tried using it once but I found that I lost the 'feel' of the table and I was missing out on snippets of conversations that might prove helpful and almost 'hermitising' myself in the process by being so withdrawn. As an aid to concentration, for me, it just means it's distracting me from where the focus should be.

Well now, that IS interesting.

At the blonde MasterClass recently, Dave gave a sermon on Tourney Poker, & was asked about the use of I-Pods.

He replied along the lines of "I HAVE to use an i-Pod as an aid to concentration, otherwise peeps want to talk to me, & I miss the little nuances & tells that I can spot if I am "isolated" from the table banter."

In fact, if he arrives at a tourney sans i-Pod, or his battery dies, he gets all of a tither, & will borrow mine or Jens. Though he fell asleep listening to mine, & returned it in disgust, & was astonished to hear the sorta thing "Little Miss Innocent" Jen has on hers!

Horses for courses, see?

I sometimes, a lot of the time, have the ipod earplugs in to make it appear like I have music on but actually I don't. I do this to prevent people small talking me and making me lose my concentration and so I can observe without people knowing.
N

Hehe, I don't think Dave necessarily has the music on, he just gives the impression he has!

He's Welsh, see, & they are an anti-social lot.

[Junior Senior]

Concentration is one thing I find harder online than live, now maybe as Tikay says, its the pace of the game.

Live, I can concentrate like anything, no matter how slow the play is - I love to watch people and how they react,talk, breathe etc...   Online this is missing for me, and causes me to "blow up" alot more online. Something I am working on

I am exactly the same

I get bored far easier online and my concentration wanders.

Live, I observe and never get bored...no matter how glacial the pace

I'll join this club!
live, i can sit for hours - even days without getting bored, online, i struggle for minutes worth of concentration. - i am playing a MTT now whilst posting here - just can't seem to sit and focus - i admire those that can.

[Cupcake]

I tried using my ipod at the table once...........and once was enough , Dont get me wrong i have all the greats on mine, starting with the only man i would ask for his autograph ......BOB DYLAN ( every single album), Neil Young,johnny cash, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra,leonard cohen,Woody Gutherie,Tracy Chapman and some contemporary stuff as well.

however i just felt anti-social and completely missing the point of playing poker in the first place, so much so that i hardly enjoy playing online these days.
I just really enjoy meeting new people, be it at work or at the poker table and if we make each other laugh as well , that's a bonus. I've been playing poker now for almost 18 month's and i reckon i've got 6 month's left in me before i give up and move onto another hobby.

Like most thirty something's i've tried em all : Fishing (which i still really love),Golf , Snooker,Karate,Football,all forms of motor racing, Table tennis, and loads more......for all you younger guy's reading this, you too will play all these sport's it's inevitable !!!!!.............just do yourself a favour and miss out the GOLF......it's a bastard of a game. .

So keep those ipod's off and soak up all that atmosphere, look for the tells,look for the waitress,look for the conversation, and even better look for me , we'll have a laugh ........also you'll probably end up with all my chips.

Cupcake.

[Junior Senior]

I tried using my ipod at the table once...........and once was enough , Dont get me wrong i have all the greats on mine, starting with the only man i would ask for his autograph ......BOB DYLAN ( every single album), Neil Young,johnny cash, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra,leonard cohen,Woody Gutherie,Tracy Chapman and some contemporary stuff as well.

however i just felt anti-social and completely missing the point of playing poker in the first place, so much so that i hardly enjoy playing online these days.
I just really enjoy meeting new people, be it at work or at the poker table and if we make each other laugh as well , that's a bonus. I've been playing poker now for almost 18 month's and i reckon i've got 6 month's left in me before i give up and move onto another hobby.

Like most thirty something's i've tried em all : Fishing (which i still really love),Golf , Snooker,Karate,Football,all forms of motor racing, Table tennis, and loads more......for all you younger guy's reading this, you too will play all these sport's it's inevitable !!!!!.............just do yourself a favour and miss out the GOLF......it's a bastard of a game. .

So keep those ipod's off and soak up all that atmosphere, look for the tells,look for the waitress,look for the conversation, and even better look for me , we'll have a laugh ........also you'll probably end up with all my chips.

Cupcake.

what a refreshing take on things!
nice one

[dik9]

40 hands an hour is quite easy as long as the players are quick to act, the dealer can only go as fast as the players allow, an average of 25-30 hands is the norm. Also if it is televised this will go down to about 10 hands as the Producers like to add effect and drama???