I just noticed today that I tend to play some hands (or even stretches of hands, especially when my cards are cold) on cruise control. I think lack of focus is a leak for me. Look at this one:

***** Hand History for Game 2003808083 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Thursday, May 05, 17:07:35 EDT 2005
Table Table 37625 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Cancer1man ( $17.9 )
Seat 2: Tochtas ( $51.15 )
Seat 3: soplatterive ( $33.89 )
Seat 5: DDUB24 ( $22.6 )
Seat 6: GuranG ( $24.75 )
Seat 7: angahar ( $23.05 )
Seat 8: Snivey ( $33.65 )
Seat 9: Cage20 ( $23.07 )
Seat 10: nighthawk226 ( $41.21 )
Seat 4: stressball10 ( $24.4 )
DDUB24 posts small blind [$0.1].
GuranG posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ As 8d ]
angahar folds.
Snivey folds.
Cage20 folds.
Cancer1man folds.
Tochtas folds.
soplatterive folds.
stressball10 calls [$0.25].
DDUB24 calls [$0.15].
GuranG checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 7s, 3s ]
DDUB24 bets [$0.5].
GuranG folds.
stressball10 calls [$0.5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
DDUB24 checks.
stressball10 checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
DDUB24 checks.
stressball10 checks.
DDUB24 shows [ 3d, Td ] a pair of threes.
stressball10 doesn't show [ As, 8d ] high card ace.
DDUB24 wins $1.75 from the main pot with a pair of threes.


Obviously not a major pot. No real reason to get heavily involved here. But my read on him (even without me really paying attention to the hand) was correct - I could have easily taken that little pot from him by bluffing the flush on the turn or river. Or even raising his weak bet on the flop. I had the perfect opportunity too, with what is often called the naked ace bluff - I have the ace of spades in my hand. It's amazing to me to notice that I just bypassed the chance to take two free dollars when it was basically mine to take, and I even KNEW it, and just didn't act on it because I was bored.