[silversurfer]

Great thread.

1. Playing when upset/agitated/anxious and therefore being impatient/suffering from FPS/playing like an 8-year old Ritalin user suffering from withdrawal.

2. Not putting people on hands and just playing off of general reads/the strength of my cards.

3. Not studying enough afterwards.

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1. I struggle with this one. Part of the answer is for me to play more live tourneys; for some reason, my focus is nearly absolute, and I make far more intelligent decisions as opposed to getting bored and saying "the hell with it, let's gamble!" Part of this will be solved by staying away from nicotene and quitting smoking entirely (evil drug, withdrawal is a huge distraction). It's been almost two weeks, woo woo! Finally, I need to recognize when I am in one of these spastic moods and....slap myself to focus or something. Exercise is a big help as well to burn off the energy.
The early rounds of tournies bore the living hell out of me - I play much better when the blinds are actually worth stealing and need to be more patient so that I can make it to the "fun" stages. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

2. Just gotta be more disciplined and do this. Now that I have paid off all of my debts and can actually devote some serious time to poker again, I need to take my time during tournies instead of saying "ahh, I put $100 in my Stars account for the weekend, if I blow it, who cares".

3. Same thing - discipline. Have to keep away from living and breathing poker for weeks at a time to the point where I get utterly burned out and can't even pick up a book.