Bad start to sessions

start of easy and dont start being to creative the first few hands of a session.

Warm up before sessions, either go over your last sessions played hands and see how you did or just hit the hand evaluations section in forum and review other players hands.

Hi Graham28292,

I used to have this problem as well and still do some days! Krishjanis has the right idea, warming up. It's actually a very important and often neglected part of playing.

As an example, have you ever seen a boxer get to fighting without warming up first? Or a gymnast start a routine without stretching and loosening up? I bet you can think of many more examples yourself?
You may think that yes, that's ok but they're athletes I 'm a poker player; but then what about chess players, or darts players, or...well, you get the picture by now!

We all have many things going on in our lives. Have you ever found it difficult to concentrate on a particular thing because there is something else in your head interfering?

Watch a video, review some hands, read some articles; but just get your brain thinking; 'it's poker time!'

So warm up, have fun, take 'em down! ♦

Mal.

Also very helpful is starting session with less tables than as usual e.g. when you normally play 8 tables play on just 4 for about 30 minutes then add 2 after 45 and next 2 after an hour from beginning. Or when you see you are concentrated well enough.

In my opinion it's to start a session with poker in mind, and not with just 'winning'. Making the decisions in the present moment without distracting yourself with thoughts of loss or gain.

I have the same problem, i mainly play my best A game during the middle of a session and do struggle often in the first few hands. Perhaps should look into this "warm-up" suggested above, cheers.

A another good thing to do is play lower stakes for your first session of the day.

Ill often start my day playing NL25 then once I feel that im playing well and on my A game ill move back to NL50 or NL100.

If I feel im not playing my best or im just running bad ill stay at Nl25 for the day.