It is quite hard to become a good poker player! Most of the excellent poker players especially in America have been playing poker since their childhood. It is a little bit like in England when you used to play bridge or hearts with your grandparents. So if you want one day become one of the best players of poker you need to work hard and seriously.

Be patient

You have to be patient to play poker. Most of the times you don’t have good hands so you have to fold and it can be long before getting something, so patience is one of the best quality to get. Also a tournament of poker can be played for hours, days or weeks. The world championship of poker is played during a week or two.

Be competitive

You have to play poker a lot and take it as a hobby or a passion. You have also to like fighting and being aggressive to be the best player. Liking competition and be ready for it is very important, you have to be ready like an athlete. An article from scientific showed that poker players can be faster and more concentrate on their activities than certain athletes. The average is very close.

Be healthy

It is like a sport competition, if you are tired or drunk, it won’t help you. If you are tired, you will be stressed and irritated by everything. If you are drunk, you will be excited by the alcohol and you will play like a beginner or worse you won’t care at all and you will annoy everyone until losing.

Analyst

Be able to analyze the felt. Be able to read the river and able to read the game of your adversary. Most of the time, when you get a good game, you are just focus on it and forget that your opponent can get a good game as well and maybe better that yours. Don’t play stupidly, it is important to check if something can happen on the river and can beat you.

Psychologies

Analyze the gestural of your adversaries. Most of the time, people make same gestural when they are faking or when they are anxious. Women use to touch their hair and men moves their eyebrows. So if you can read your opponent through that, you will be able to play longer than usual. Also it would be a huge advantage for you. You also have to analyse the game and how your adversaries raise or call. It is important.

Be a comedian

Sometimes, you can hesitate and call, if you do that your adversary will think that you have nothing and he will play more to get you in his nets but actually, you will get him in your nets. It is quite hard to do it because most of the time, you get excited about your game when it is very good.

And, the most important, get some experience. It can be on Internet or on live in a pub or between friends but to be a good player you have to practice a lot. Good luck and the best for you.