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OldPadawan OldPadawan 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Live coverage [ The audience does not get a real time feed. It is delayed. And say what you want about how you play exactly the same way against every player at the table regardless of your feelings toward them. I have seen thousands of examples of this not being the case — e. It may be irrational, but it is human nature. To be sure, being likable, through conversation and social engagement, will not lessen the aggression of every opponent.
But it works enough to warrant my removal of all reasonable barriers to such conversation and engagement. There are two other reasons why I choose not to wear either sunglasses or headphones at the poker table. The first is that they are each a symbol of poker seriousness. While some awful players wear them, aping as they do the behavior of players they would like to emulate but fail miserably at , few truly casual, unsuspecting, innocent, or otherwise un-serious poker players show up at the table with either.
Accordingly, the serious players and the wannabes are at least initially less suspecting and wary of me when I come to the table so unadorned. They will be more likely to believe that I am an innocent and therefore straightforward player — that my large bets mean a strong hand, my passivity means weakness, and so on.
Consequently, I can use my "believe-ability" to my advantage to steal pots I want to steal and to trap opponents I want to trap. Of course, once I do this once or twice, my cover is blown. Jettisoning the sunglasses and headphones — and the baseball cap, too, for similar reasons — allows me to preserve my innocent appearance for at least a little while.
The second reason is that uncovered eyes and ears can pick up things that might not be visible or audible otherwise. That's an obvious point with regard to headphones and hearing. If I'm wearing headphones, I may miss the remark from the player to my right that he's about to leave, for example. If I miss that, then I might not appreciate the seriousness I should have inferred from his subsequent bet as players who are about to leave are less likely to be bluffing.
Similarly, I might miss the comment from the player across the table that he's shoving his hand blind. You get the idea. The spoken word may reveal a lot that I'll be missing if I have my ears covered with headphones playing my favorite song.
There are things you might also miss by wearing sunglasses, too. Even those that permit the most light to pass through are still blocking enough light to obscure other potentially valuable info, such as a little smile or frown in response to a flop, the slight tremor of a hand reaching for chips, the denominations of those chips being handled, and the like.
There's also the occasionally flashed or marked card — it happens — that sunglasses might cause you to miss. You might still want to wear sunglasses or headphones, believing that for you there's still an advantage to be gained from using one or both. I hope I've convinced you that there is at least a strong case to be made for going to the table without either. Click here to participate in this poll. Ashley Adams has been playing poker for 50 years and writing about it since He is also the host of poker radio show House of Cards.
After all, hearing is one of your most valuable senses and there are times when you should keep your ears open. Having said this, there are times where the benefits of music outweigh the negatives. Poker for most people is a pastime, hobby or passion but for others it is a nothing more than a moneymaking exercise.
Music can offer sanity for grinders spending countless hours at the poker table. It can keep them sharp and most importantly stop them from making stupid mistakes. I wear headphones a lot in tournaments. For me tournaments are all about routine and I find at the start of a tournament I like to listen to relaxing music to help me acclimatize to the surroundings.
I am very conscious about my playing environment and I can always turn the music off if I need to listen to what is happening.
I also have a wide variety of music on offer and pick and choose my tracks to suit the style of play I am adopting at any particular time.
If I am playing a very long tournament, have plenty of chips and there are a couple of crazy players on my table then I am playing a waiting game and listen to some chilled out tunes.
If, on the other hand, things are starting to tighten up on the table, I am getting short on chips and I judge the time is right to move up a gear then I tend to listen to some thumping rock or fast techno to get the blood pumping. Not everyone is going to dissect their playlists to the point I do, but you should be mindful of how and why you listen to music at a poker table. Anything that improves or detracts from your game is relevant and all good poker players are trying to get the best out of their game.
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