Habits of a winning poker player

As you may have noticed, poker requires not only technical training, but also certain character traits and psychological preparation. It is very important to understand the importance of psychological preparation in poker. Use it as an opportunity to improve yourself and realise that this is the weakest point of most opponents.

9 Winning poker player Habits

Patience

• Waiting for a good card to be played, waiting for a good situation to take advantage of.
• Waiting to win. Remember poker long gameso it can take time for winnings to appear, especially for MTT players. However, some players who do not win for a longer period of time start to make mistakes, start to "downgrade" their game and lose motivation, so you need to be patient.
• Patience in going up with limits, don't push yourself, just follow what is good and acceptable to you bankroll management.

Discipline

• Successful gaming is very much linked to discipline and the subtleties of money management (bankroll management) and continuous learning and development.
• Discipline is also very useful when it comes to controlling your emotions during the game in order to keep your sanity.
• Highly successful results often distort one's view of reality, and a player in such a wave may decide that there is no need to improve, or that there are no more unbeatable players or levels.

Cold-bloodedness

• Available at learn to accept setbacks, badbeats and defeats as a normal and inevitable part of poker.
• You have to learn to let go of anger, frustration and dissatisfaction.
• Must be calm and be able to return to a calm state as quickly as possible.
• You have to have pity on others, a common mistake players make in a live game, they feel sorry for the girl or guy playing against them and decide not to place a value bet with the best hand and similar examples. This is especially true on the male side when playing against girls, and is often subtly exploited by the girls themselves. What happens at the poker table has no bearing on the friendship, if you want to express your affection for a girl then ask her out, don't pander to her at the poker table.

Diligence, diligence

• Nothing stands still while you're on holiday, other players are improving, analysing their game, reading new poker articles and poker books, must be hard-working to move forward successfully.
• In poker, it's not enough to be better than half as good (because of the high fees in poker rooms - rake), all the biggest wins are at the top, and you just have to work harder than everyone else to get them.

Objectivity

• You must be self-critical and not tolerate your mistakes and weaknesses
• Analyse yourself, don't be afraid and correct your mistakes decisively
• You have to be ambitious, you have to improve, you have to do it consistently.
• Don't overestimate yourself - you're not a PRO yet

Courage

• Remember poker is a battle between winners and losers. You have to bluff, you have to reraise and re-raise, and you have to learn to collude with no nuts. As the saying goes, "you have to have balls".

Attention management

• Sometimes you have to make very difficult decisions in a very limited time, so you have to be focused on the game, even if you put your hand down you still have to be in the game, watching the table, watching your opponents
• If you feel you can't concentrate, it's time to take a break.

A constant desire to improve

• In poker, things are always changing, what worked a year ago is no longer working now.
• In poker, your opponents are getting stronger and stronger and learning more, so you need to keep up too.
• In poker, it's not enough to be average, you have to be the best.

Modesty

• Most PROs have gained humility because of their big downturns, they know that it is inevitable and they should not give in to the glory, because they have to watch out for the next downturn.