Online poker is one of the few online games where you actually pit your skills against other human players. Unfortunately, they have the same plans as you – eliminate everyone else and take home the money. Like most forms of gambling, there are winners and losers and we all have winning streaks and losing streaks. These tips may help you get through a losing streak without losing your shirt.
How To Get Through An Online Poker Losing Streak
- Take a Hike – I know it’s flippant – but tip number one is to walk away, take a break of a few days and recharge your mental batteries.
- Downsize – move to lower value tables where a loss is only a fraction of what you have been losing.
- Go Free – move to the free tables. A few wins on the free tables can help boost your confidence and help you regain that ‘winning’ feeling.
Those tips may sound very basic – and they are, and they are meant to be. One of the worst things that a player can do when faced with a losing streak is to try and ‘chase their losses’. This means betting more in the hope that a win will cover all their losses. Unfortunately, this rarely happens – you just lose more money.
Online poker is a confidence game so once you start to lose, you start to lose your confidence and you start to make silly mistakes. Going back to the basics is the best way to survive a losing streak. It will help restore some confidence and have you playing intelligently again.