Why Do Most Players Fail At Online Poker?
Posted in Player Tips on 15. May, 2010
Believe it or not, most online poker players, despite what they tell you, are losing players. Sure, they will have winning streaks and they may even come out with a profit at the end of the week, but in the long run they lose a large portion of their bankroll. There can be multiple reasons for this, but there are two main ones that keep coming up – they don’t track their play and they don’t have discipline.
All the best poker players track their play. It truly is one of the best ways to improve your game. What’s even better is the fact that most online poker software will automatically track your play for you too! But, almost no one goes back and looks through their past play. If you examine your hand histories, you can look and see where you made errors and correct them easily. If you look at the hand histories of most losing poker players, you will see that they make the same mistakes over and over again.
Also, most poker players don’t have discipline. It takes a lot of focus and time to become a great poker player, and very few people are willing to spend the time and put in the effort to be a winner. They watch some of the WSOP on TV and think they are the next Phil Ivey. It doesn’t work like that.
If you track your play and focus on your discipline, you will become a winning player in no time.

