If playing badly!

I know most of you are thinking “no I dont” but, you should!  You need to learn from your mistakes.  If you steal from the local store and dont get caught, arent you most likely to do it again?  The same thing goes for online poker.  If you do not lose when you play badly, you will continue to do so!

Learn from your mistakes – this is how you will grow the most in the game of poker.

“Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind.  If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow” – Buddha

A great secret to online poker is remaining calm.  Do not involve your emotions in the game of poker.  Remain dispassionate.  If your mind is clear, then you will have the ability to see signals that will help your game, both of your own actions and others.

This will probably be one of the most important online poker secrets that I could give to you.  This is for New Cash Game players – either transitioning from Online Poker Tournaments OR from Live Cash Games.

If you are going to be playing any No Limit or Pot Limit cash games (no matter what the game of poker is you are playing), you should have a minimum of 20x the max buy-in of the game in your bankroll.  For example, if you are starting to play 0.50/1 NL HE, the max buy-in at the table is usually $100.  Your bankroll should be at least $1,000.

You need to have a bankroll to sustain the swings, and if you choose to play a stake without the bankroll, you are putting yourself in a losing situation, no matter how good of a poker player you think you are!

Books like Super System have been a huge success in selling to new poker players.  Most of us who are serious about poker know that the Super System books have been an absolute GIFT to the poker industry – not because of the value in the book, but because of the fish that Super System has bread!

Yes – Doyle Brunson is a master at the game – but do you really think that his advice is decent for anyone playing under 5/10 NL? 

Keep in mind that when playing the Super System strategies, you have to be playing against players that are intelligent enough to know the game of poker – and at mid to low stakes poker, you are never going to find a lot of these players.  Generally, you are only going to be put in a situation where this strategy will fail.