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Message: [QUOTE="ChrisFoxWallace, post: 6281769, member: 474011"] I'm not sure having the mood that you will definitely get rewarded is a good idea. The truth is that most players will lose money. The rake eats up a lot of profits and means that most players don't win. For most it is a hobby that is fun, but not profitable. I think the idea that you will definitely be rewarded some day has all kinds of potential negatives attached to it. You could end up disappointed time after time. You could also lose a lot of money because you believe that you will definitely start winning eventually. And you could invest far too much time treating poker as a potential occupation when you could be doing other, more productive, things. It's good to have a positive attitude, but also be realistic. Every session I know I could lose, but I play my best game and I worry about how well I play, not how much money I make. If losing is getting you down, it may be time to take a break, or at least study more and play less. Studying poker is never a losing proposition, there is no money at stake. And if you study more, you will win more often. And when you win more often, you will enjoy the game more and have a better attitude towards your sessions. It is a spiral upwards if you study enough, and a spiral down if you don't study and just keep expecting to win. Buy poker books. Read them and take notes. Talk about hands with friends. Join a poker training site. Hire a poker coach. Find some way to work harder on your game. Picture a runner who wants to be the fastest sprinter. He goes to all the races, knowing that if he keeps trying he will win eventually. But will he? Probably not. Most people can never be an Olympic sprinter. And he definitely won't ever win if he isn't training really hard. If he does everything he can to be as fast as he can, working out with a coach, eating a perfect diet, sculpting his body, then he has a much better chance. Without those things, he never has a chance. Poker is really no different. If you don't dedicate a lot of time and hard work to studying, then it doesn't matter how much you play, you will never be a long term winner. So study hard, enjoy the game, and stop expecting to win. Just enjoy the game and get better at it and play for money that you can afford to lose, because no matter how good you are you will still lose fairly often. I hope that helps a little. I know it's not good news, but it's true. [/QUOTE]

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