One of our regular players has written to us with this story of why they feel many people fail when it comes to playing poker online and free poker online.
Over the last 6 months I have not really played much poker at all. I have been busy with friends, family, TV and trying to make money with Internet Businesses. The business thing is not working but it is mostly because I have only made a half hearted attempt at it.
I am the first to admit that I can be a bit idle at times and I could put a lot more effort into certain parts of my life. I am aware that the more poker I play, I put more effort into it, so I have started playing again.
I stopped playing so much for multiple reasons.
1. The last great payout month I had, I played a lot and felt exhausted after.
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.