How to get successful in poker

Poker has never been an easy task if you´re out for winning money. Even though I see myself as a pretty good all round player it has always been a struggle to bet the other players sitting at my table. Don’t get me wrong, I am in fact a solid player that has spent many hours playing the game I love the most. I’ve read all the books a winning player should have read and I have also used countless helping programs to help improve my game.

My interest in poker began early. Like many others I played for pocket money with my older siblings and I loved the feeling of winning money, even though it wasn’t much money. When I realized that the game was so much about playing your opponents as playing you’re cards I fell even more in love with the game. As I grew older my interest grew as well as my winnings. I therefore started rounding up friends for weekly get-togethers around an old table using ugly chips for money. The interest in my little project grew and soon I stood in front of an important decision. Either I would keep expanding my project or I would stop the whole thing. As the poker player by heart I am I of course took option one and kept the thing running. I also started adding tournaments and the people loved it. But the poker took so much of my spare time that I eventually got bored with it and decided to kill the project. I figured that there were other willing persons to keep the players happy with their cash games and tournaments.

I was so tired of playing poker as well that I didn’t touch a deck of cards for years until one day someone told of this new thing. Apparently you could now play poker in front of a computer against real players for real money. Fascinating, I thought, this I have to try. And so it all began once more and with this new technology the only think I as a player had to focus at was winning as much money as possible. The thing I like the most about this new way of playing poker is the fact that it’s so easy assessable. Earlier I had to call people, get a place to play at and so on. Now all I have to do is start up my computer and choose a table and start playing almost instant. The sad part is that it’s not the same feeling sitting in front of a computer screen as sitting around a table with some good friends. But if I have to choose I still think it is so much better playing online poker. It also goes way much faster than in real life which is very important for me.