DJ Cautious On Stars: The Worst Player In The World

Hi folks.. While I aint no authority on the game once in a while I am going to pretend like I am one and introduce and talk about new crazy concepts which is on my mind once in a while and call it DJ Cautious 101.

This topic is going to be about Poker Players Warming up??? What do we do before we start a session online?? Do we stretch? Hit the punching bag? Order Pizza? Have a beer? Do we go over our previous session? What do we do before we start a session.....

The reason I ask is because Poker is considered a sport and in most sport before any game they warm up. In basketball they shoot a few hoops before a game, in NFL they stretch and do a few drills, in swimming they swim a few laps, basically in all sports they do abit of soft practice.

In poker do we online normally do a light workout before we start? Not really.. we normally fire up our 6 tables and jump straight into it for better or for worse. I find at the start of a session I am doing either sup optimal plays or really aggressive plays which could make me money or not but at the end of the day is bad regardless. After a while I settle into my session but my "rusty play" could have cost me 2-3 bi's. Its like a NBA player who missed the warm up is normally going to be cold for the first quarter as he try’s to get into a groove  .

Ok DJ Cautious you say what is the solution??? I believe play money tables if you play micro stakes or mirco stakes like $.02/ $.004 if you play mid to higher stakes. Spend 15-25mins "warming up" on these stakes to get the rust before you start out of your system.. Practice all your crazy moves like calling down 3 streets with jack high there which is similar to an NBA player trying to shoot from the highway line in warm-up. Why? Because it does not cost you anything and gets you in the groove. Nit it up and see if for 10 mins you can beat the mirco stakes grinder or the play money king!! Or play like a manic to try and get the whole table on tit.

It achieves a few objectives.. 1) It allows you to have a good time and alot of fun before you start playing so your in a good mindset 2) It gets you practicing against players who take different lines to what your normally accustomed to , allowing you to adapt and change your game up abit 3) It allows you to have a few bad beats and suck outs for and ag you so your mentally prepared for it when the money means something to you4) If you play the mirco stakes spreads money around the poker community as the mirco stake players get a gift of 5-10 bucks as you spazz out and go nuts!!!!!

Hope it helps and look out for more weird and wonderful 101's from me in the future!!