One of our free poker members recently wrote in with the following story, it sums up, we think many of the reasons people fail at online poker even free poker online!
I used to love playing poker online and would do it at every given opportunity. My time spent playing has suffered lately due to other aspects going on in my life, such as family commitments and trying to set up my own business online. The online business hasn’t been working out very well and I think this is due to my lack of enthusiasm.
You see I am lazy and I do not apply myself like I should. When I do play poker on a regular basis I seem to apply myself a lot more so I am getting back into it to see how it goes.
I stopped playing so much for multiple reasons.
1. I played a lot that last winning month and was a little worn out.
2. The next month I played bad and lost and or broke even way too much.
3. I lost interest and got busy doing other things.
4. The regular free poker site I used to play at ceased trading.
5. Since the poker habit was broken I quite often forgot to play.
6. I withdrew a lot of my winning after that winning month and then lost the next month so I had to drop down a level. When you drop down it is less interesting because you are winning and losing less money and you incorrectly assume all the players are bad and you play different as a result, meaning you lose more money.
7. I tried getting back into it on Full Tilt but I really feel the players are much better there and even after dropping down I was still only breaking even.
Add up all that and it resulted in me never playing poker. But I have started up playing again on free poker sites and have begun to enjoy it again. I have a goal for this month. I want to play 10000 hands by the end of the month and show a profit. I think I can do it, we will see.
