Guest Avanthika Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 1.Passion for poker - if you don't play poker yet, passion for strategic games in general. If it's not fun for you, you won't become good. 2. Self-discipline - you need to be disciplined to keep a good balance between learning and playing. And you need the mental strength to take a bad beat as a natural, random thing and not let it influence your game negatively (very important, which is why 'tilt' is the #1 word in online poker ;)). 3. Self-reflectiveness - in poker, it's easy to fool yourself because the variance is so high. Means you can mistake a downswing for faults in your play and vice-versa. Asking others for feedback & critics is also important, but I'd also put it under self-reflectiveness, as normally self-reflection & the will for input from others goes hand in hand. 4. Experience - you need to play a lot. That's why online poker changes poker so much: now, you can gather the experience of 10+ years of live poker within less than a year. 5. Curiosity - you need the will to consume ideas & concepts written by others & engage in dialogues with other players. You need to learn from articles, forum discussions, books. If you are not curious, this is hard work. If you are curious, this learning can be a lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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