Blindly chasing after any and every flush and straight draw isn’t going to pay off. Thank God that I was broke and had to settle for a washing machine with wheels.

I’m sure that if I had a Ferrari as my first car I would have crashed it. Take you time and play within your comfort zone. Yeah sure, all the cool kids are multi-tabling but that doesn’t mean you have to too. Why? Raise 3BB + 1BB for each limper preflop and bet at least 2/3rds of the pot postflop and you’ll do much better for yourself.

You make minraises before and after the flop.

How many articles and tips is it going to take before you start to understand that position is actually way more important than you think it is? Have you not noticed how much easier it is to play from the button than it is UTG?

The odds aren’t always going to be in your favour. Just because an event can happen it doesn’t mean that you should put your money behind it. Sure, all hands in poker have a chance of winning, but then I also have a chance of having a threesome. And no, I’m not just saying that to scare you. If you don’t use BR management, you’re never going to be able to consistently win money from poker. Just play lots of hands before you resign yourself to the losers’ corner. Ever heard of variance? Don’t draw any conclusions until you hit at least 10,000 hands, and even then you can’t really rely on the results from that sample size. How does, say, a nice, round 26 reasons sound? Reasons why you lose money playing online poker.

However, what I can do is give you a bunch of reasons as to why you can’t win money from online poker and ideas for what you could do to improve. Then again, this isn’t really much of a dialogue, so that’s not going to work either. Maybe if you sent me some stats, graphs and a few hand histories then I might be able to do something. Those are some pretty vague questions right there. Why can’t I win money at online poker? Where am I going wrong? What do I need to do to improve my poker game?

Online poker winner