Just because you have made a mistake in your poker game, doesnt mean you need to continue it!  If you call a bet that you really shouldnt – do not make excuses to call again.  If you make a bet that you shouldnt have, do not make a continuation bet just because you started betting in the first place.

You open up your cards and see that you have pocket aces.  Its a definite instinct to grab your chips and go.  Just like in live poker, your online poker game is being observed by your opponents.  Take time in your decisions, do not make any impulse acts.  Leave your opponents wondering what you are going to do next.

“If defeat has more to teach us than victory, then perhaps a defeat is a victory unto itself?” – Miron Stabinsky

If you can take your past lessons/mistakes and use them as a tool towards your future games, then you are making your losses a win in itself.  As stated before: poker is a game for the long run.  You are given so many tools (especially in Online Poker) to learn from your mistakes, and you have the ability to take these mistakes into profit.

Review your mistakes, and see what you could have done better or how you could have taken action differently.  Incorporate your mistakes into your strategy.

Knowing the basics of online poker is not enough.  Study the game, study your hands, study other players hands, read poker books, analyse different scenerios, identify your faults, watch poker on TV….do everything you can to ensure taht your knowledge of the game is continuously improving.  Poker is not a game of now, poker is a game of the long run and of change.  If you do not study, you will not have the ability to keep up with the game.

Poker is not a game about Right Now, even though the ability to win right now is a possibility.  The biggest trap in Online Poker would have to be the chance to have immidiate profit at the instant that you want to play. 

The reality is, your impatience to win Now can be a hinderance to your game.  Desperation isnt the way to play poker.  Poker is a game of patience and a game of time, so keep in your head that your wins will come over time, and they will.