How to become a winning player

How to become a winning player is something easier said than done in today’s world. There are actually very few winning poker players that can earn a living and do whatever they want with their money. Most of these players have learned throughout the course of time that money adds up. If you start spending money on things right away or every time you win go and buy something it won’t work out for you in the long run. The reason it won’t work out is because to be a winning player you need to be able to beat the games, pay the bills and numerous other things to keep your life afloat. If you suffer a serious downswing one day you could cost yourself a lot of money and not be able to recover.

To be able to beat limits is something very few players can do with great consistency. Once in a while a player or yourself will go in to a game and just destroy it maybe tripling your bankroll in only a few weeks. The problem is that most players will want to move up a limit or two because they think it will be that easy forever, whether they were running good or just focusing better. You cannot justify taking a sample of maybe only 5,000 hands and moving up. What you want is to be able to beat that limit for 100,000 hands before you decide to take a shot at a higher limit. Most players that are great cash players and on top of the poker world now such as Tom Dwan have made a living grinding it out and moving up slowly through the limits. The key is to make a progression through the limits until you feel comfortable enough to move up. A player like Dwan has progressed so well through the limits and become a winning player by using bankroll management skills and his abilities to help guide him. If you can take in to account and have forty buy-ins for the limit you play, if you can make that into eighty buy-ins then you can move up to the next level. The one thing to stay away from is having too small of a bankroll to play the limits that you want. Most players will go in to high stakes games and blow through money like it isn’t real to them. The truth is that money is real and if you want to be able to move up and play those games you have to first establish yourself at a limit, second, make sure your bankroll and poker bonus money can handle the swings of it, then third, if you feel like it is time to move up and you are confident you will win move up. There are a lot of progressions and swings that poker players go through day in and day out, it is how you recover from them that will make you into a great player. Beating limits comes one day at a time and if you are willing to grind it out, and not gamble too much you will be able to make it to the top some day.