One of our free poker members recently wrote in with the following story, it sums up, we think many of the reasons people fail at online poker even 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.

You see I am lazy and I do not apply myself like I should. When I do play poker on a regular basis I seem to apply myself a lot more so I am getting back into it to see how it goes.

I avoided playing for a few reasons.

1. I played a lot that last winning month and was a little worn out.

2. The following month I had a rubbish month and played terrible and barely broke even.

3. I got pre-occupied in other activities.

4. My favourite free online poker site shutdown and sold off their business to someone else.

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.