Why Don't Many People Succeed In Poker?

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People there, easy?

Well, there is some time that I have reflected some things about poker in the whole, and I would like to share it here with you.

I am not the owner of the truth and I say beforehand that you feel free to disagree, argue or simply comment on this text.

I'm thinking of doing a series with more topics on the subject, this being the first. If you find this topic relevant, I will give continuity.


Why do not many people succeed at Poker?

First, what would "work out" in poker? Be professional? Craft a great tournament? Have an X% ROI in X tournaments?

In my view, "working out" in poker would simply be able to accomplish your goals in poker while still being able to reconcile them to your off-poker life. With this in mind, we have already identified some important points to answer the question.

- Lack of goals and goals inside and outside of poker.

Whatever we do in life, we need to know what we want with it, where we are and where we want to go. Knowing this, the next step is to know what to do to get where you want to go.

- Do not plan yourself, acting on impulse.

If you want to have a $ 100 bankroll, starting at $ 10, you have to plan how many tournaments you will play per day, how many days a week, how many tournaments you need to reach your goal, imagining a realistic ROI for the variant , How much time per week you will go to review your tournaments and study the variant and so on. What actually happens is that many people simply play cheering to achieve, without having a vision that goes beyond, without setting goals and without planning.

- Disorganized off-poker life.

It is necessary to organize to have room for poker. Many people who want to start on this journey sometimes do not have time for poker or just are not in a good time to add another "activity" to their daily schedule.

- Not having patience.

It is necessary to be patient. If you analyze your routine, and you see that you really have many commitments and do not have space for poker, it is healthier to have patience and wait for a more propitious moment to devote to it. It turns out that people often do not have the patience to wait, and end up not even playing 100% focused and concentrated Poker, nor do they give you other commitments of the daily routine and still blame poker for further messing up their lives. Poker itself requires a lot of patience in every way, whether at the table playing, or studying, or having the patience not to draw your winnings and wait for the right time for it and so on. It is a game surrounded by the need to have patience. If you do not have it, you can work to have it, just have willpower for it and a little patience (lol).

- Goals very distant and vague.

Goals that are too vague and far from being hit are bad because, as well as frustrating, they can detract you greatly. Example: Reach $ 1,000 bankroll in one month. OK. How do you intend to get there? What variants will you play? How much will your volume be in the month and how much ROI will you have to do to achieve the expected result? To make such a goal, you need to have a handful of tournaments or X hands to support yourself. A conscious goal is where we can see what we have already done, how we got out and leave. If I made 30% ROI on the $ 0.25 90men in 1 month playing my best and gave $ 75 in a thousand tournaments, how do I plan to make a thousand dollars in a month? A more conscious goal would be to try to do a thousand more tournaments keeping something close to 30% ROI.

- Lack of commitment.

After all this, it is necessary to have commitment. There is no point in setting goals behind goals, organizing and planning, and giving up in the first week. Many people have no commitment and end up giving up their goals. They start a diet today, but they deliver to the first piece of pizza right away. Always remember why you are doing what you are doing, if you can imagine where you want to go and stick to it, do not give up and be consistent!

I hope to see you discuss this.

Do you agree or disagree with the points raised here? In your opinion, why do not many people succeed in poker?

Hug!
 
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Bankroll management and lack of patience are the two key points I get from your posting. For some reason I do much better at live tournaments than online. Not going to speculate why. Many times the play at online tournaments is so loose and betting against odds that you feel you have to loosen yuor game to remain competitive. Then you lose. Just my thoughts
 
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im agree with you my friend,my opinion is with $100 bankroll maybe more safe to play start from $5..
 
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Why do not many people succeed at Poker?

to succeed - have a lot of work! Poker constantly have to work on the game. not everyone understands this and are not serious poker. so successful poker players are not a lot!
 
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In order to succeed means to lose a lot of time and money. Only time can give results.
 
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Not many people succeed at poker, because people have many distractions, family, kids robot, no assistance in the learning and no desire to learn, sometimes the human behavior and character does not give win in poker
 
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I think it's because of inexperience and lack of patience
 
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In order to achieve success we must work hard and learn learn and learn again, then it will be the result as the saying goes (if you really want, you can fly into space )
 
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Very nice post my friend, you summed it very nicely and I can only agree with you in all points. With poker its mostly like with anything else. Only those who put 100% in it, full commitment and insane number of hours of playing and studying will be succesfull.
 
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First of all go calculate how much u lose and win in a certain amount of time so you can see if u need study or practice or wathever to be in a better place in the game
 
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It's a qwestion like "Why many peoples don't play football like Pele". Answer is easy - they can't!!!
 
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Because you have so many type of player and play. Not sure the game is the same when you have 8 tight player or when you have 8 loose player. The game is the game. Luck and timing
 
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Dont listen to anyone else... its rake.
 
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because they were going all in preflop with couple of deuce...
 
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100% of players only a maximum of 10% know how to play here's your answer
 
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because everyone thinks it's easy money and plays mindlessly)
and that part of players who plays poker makes it is on these players
 
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- Lack of commitment.

After all this, it is necessary to have commitment. There is no point in setting goals behind goals, organizing and planning, ....

I go with this. Put enough commitment and making good money in poker is easy. However, making that last step to glory is more about the natural talent, as it is in any high level competitive game.
 
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It is necessary to constantly work on the game, otherwise you will not achieve anything. Someone has talent in poker and some don't.
 
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In poker with more players every year ceases, newcomers almost gone all learned to play, if it is impossible to hold 'em, try themselves in other disciplines, there may succeed.
 
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We have many people in the online game environment.

Different profiles, some seek knowledge and plan profit. Others play for fun and pass the time.
 
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to be a success at poker, you need to work on my game, improve their skills, grow over each other.
 
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many people like to say its just gambling, and luck beats them all the time etc etc.. honestly most people can't handle being bluffed, or losing from behind consistently so they lose there shit.
 
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People want Instant gratification is why most fail.

Today's world has almost everything you want at your fingertips. Hungry .. pick up the phone an order a pizza ... not sure of something .. google has the answer ... Want to watch that new movie that just came out or an old one ... a couple clicks of a button on a computer and there it is. It's the same with Poker.. people want to win now not latter and that is most peoples down fall.
 
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