Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
There are really two important concepts
There are really two important concepts to getting yourself in an ideal state where you can be fully present in the moment: 1. Determining your current state of mind, and how recent past events may be affecting you, and 2. Letting go of all of those past events, and focusing in with laser-like precision at only the current decision at hand.
I recommend that you create a personal "ritual"
I recommend that you create a personal "ritual" for yourself before you decide to play a game of poker. You don't have to light candles, burn incense, and chant to the holy mother cow. It's just a matter of creating a repetitive set of actions that will prepare your mind to let go of the past, and focus on the current task at hand. It can be as simple as saying one sentence to yourself, such as, "I'm ready to play poker, so I'm going to let everything else go, center myself, and focus my mind to play the best online hold'em poker I can play." Something that simple can make a HUGE difference in every session you play.