Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Live poker is very slow. Once you get a feel for the table, being on your phone is fine.
Some days I play live and feel social, and almost never use my phone. Other days I just want to play and not talk to anyone, so I'm on it constantly once I'm there.
In the Kalam situation, I must have been on an important call, or I would have hung up with the person after a short time. I wonder who it was.
Also, in limit holdem there's less to worry about missing, as each decision is of a fixed bet size. I find it more important to observe the players closely when I play an NL tournament, or even NL cash.
I told Kalam when he DM'd me later (I think weeks or months later) that he should have just interrupted what I was doing and said hello. Would have been happy to meet a longtime PFA member no matter what I was doing.
BTW, my PFA hat got me a regular radio listener at a Commerce limit game in 2019. A guy next to me asked about the Poker Fraud Alert on my hat, so I told him. A few months later he saw me at Commerce again, and he told me that he checked out the show, loved it, and never misses an episode. He still listens to this day. The way the show gets most of its new listeners is from either search in podcast apps, or people who find it because I'm covering a large controversy.
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