First of all if you are a losing poker player this article most likely ain’t for you. This is simply because in my opinion if you are losing in poker you most likely have better things to do with your precious time, you could for an example go to the gym, go fishing, go drinking or do any of the hundreds of funnier things than poker.
This article is aimed for the players who simply have to play poker but for some reason cant enjoy playing it. So the person most likely to find useful tips from this article is someone who has been playing poker professionally for a while now but has lost all the interest in playing and wants to have nothing to do with the “idiotic game of poker”
Top tips on how to enjoy playing poker more:
1) Learn a new game. When you are learning how to play a new poker game it most likely brings back you some memories from the times when you began playing poker and reminds you about what made poker fun. In the ideal situation while you are learning the new poker game you also find motivation for playing the game which you need to play for living. Based on my personal experiences pot limit omaha and any type of headsup poker games are always loads of fun to learn and make poker more enjoyable for me. This is simply because in those games you get to be involved in so many more hands and get to play so many more interesting situation after the flop.
2) Try new poker format. So if going to a new poker game feels a bit too radical you could try playing a new poker format. For an example if you are normally playing cash games try playing the sit and go tournaments for a while and who knows maybe you might fall in love with the sit and go tournaments and in the future want nothing to do with the cash games. And vice versa if you are tournament player who is tired of grinding the tournaments try playing the cash games for a while. One thing to keep in mind when trying the new poker formats is that while it is technically the same game the strategy is way different for an example in cash games and multi table tournaments.
3) Withdraw your balance and try building your bankroll again. This will obviously harm your bottom line so you shouldn’t do it unless you are really bored and sick with poker. But if you indeed withdraw your whole balance and try to build your bankroll against by starting from the freeroll poker tournaments.
4) Reward yourself for playing loads of poker. For an example if you are struggling with putting in lot of hands you could say to yourself that if you manage to play 30,000 hands during the next month you will buy yourself a nice vacation to some exotic place and live the good life there for a while.
5) Try playing at a new online poker room. Sometimes simply switching to a new poker room is enough for finding the joy in playing poker again.
