The Secret Poker Player has been contacted by angry headphone-wearing poker players after criticising their distractions of choice.
It’s hard to imagine they found time to notice!
Here is TSPP’s retort.
Many poker players are playing their game in a bubble – and not the money bubble (that would be very painful!)
Bubble boy
My criticisms of those wearing headphones, and looking for a distraction at the poker table in general appears to have touched a nerve among some.
It appears, for a variety of reasons, I’m just jealous.
Indeed I could very well be.
I wish I was good enough to wear headphones or be distracted by some other form of technology.
Me, I have to spend my time watching the play, paying attention to when and what people raise to, studying how other players respond to these raises.
Other people don’t have to do any of this.
Please don’t stop the music!
They play as if they were sharing the table of a train: other people’s actions are an annoyance that need to be shut out.
It is a form of bubble play – not as in tournament cash bubble, but the conventional term of living in a bubble.
It is a bubble created by the tunes coming from the oversized egg cartons sitting at the side of your head.
A bubble that keeps out that boring part of poker where other people are involved.
What can you possibly learn from that?
You have to be really good to wear headphones.
Missed the fact that there has been a raise and re-raise and you’ve now flat called?
That’s fine; you can get those chips back.
Player is all-in and you’ve min-raised after it? Just call the rest and hit a 5.
Worried that your table image is one of a pretentious, self-obsessed child with the attention span of a drunken goldfish who has spent a lifetime eating Haribo and playing computer games?
Don’t, because even if the table hates you it doesn’t mean that their combined efforts can knock you out.
Oops…
You’re protected by a bubble remember?
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