One of our regular players has written to us with this story of why they feel many people fail when it comes to playing poker online and free poker online.

I used to love playing poker online and would do it at every given opportunity. My time spent playing has suffered lately due to other aspects going on in my life, such as family commitments and trying to set up my own business online. The online business hasn’t been working out very well and I think this is due to my lack of enthusiasm.

I am the first to admit that I can be a bit idle at times and I could put a lot more effort into certain parts of my life. I am aware that the more poker I play, I put more effort into it, so I have started playing again.

I stopped playing so much for multiple reasons.

1. The last great payout month I had, I played a lot and felt exhausted after.

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

3. I lost interest and got busy doing other things.

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.

All of these reasons factored together resulted in me not playing poker for a while. However, I have decided to make my comeback and have started to find the thrill of the free poker again. My target for this month is to play over ten thousand hands and hopefully have a decent profit at the end of it, however, only time will tell!