Being Focused - Poker Pro Tips

Author: Huckleberry Seed

In the world of FTP avatars there are no bad hair days. Not the type of thought I want to be having at an FTOPS final table. I want my mind absorbing and processing just the right information the best it can to put my creative mind in position to play Mozart to the ears of my opponents who I deem capable of appreciating it. I want to be focused. In the moment. In the flow of the game. In the “Zone”.

A great way to enhance one’s ability to focus in my opinion is fasting. On a 15 minute break early in a 500 player field NLH tournament at Foxwoods several years back, I walked to the food court, in a conversation with an old school player from my table. I procured a calorie laden sandwich. “Want anything?” I asked. “A hungry dog hunts best” the wise old man replied. I took the saying to heart. I didn’t eat the sandwich or anything else the rest of the tournament. I played very well, especially near the end (it was a one day tournament that lasted 22 hours) and won the tournament.

David Williams didn’t need a wise old poker player to teach him the value of fasting for poker focus – he figured it out on his own. I was not surprised after his tournament successes to hear him tell me that he would eat nothing during his tournaments and just drink a bit of tomato juice here and there throughout the tournament to ensure his brain was getting sufficient glucose to function at its best.

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