So many people play online poker these days and study all the available guides and think they somehow can just 'absorb' talent by magic from a few videos. Or they start to believe that just playing tight preflop gives them an instant right to be a winning player.
They then project this belief onto the tables around them. They see guys playing tight statistics on their Holdem Manager or whatever particular program they use to monitor such things and assume the games are tough - they can't beat them, the tables look tight, so online poker is dead. They start to believe that bad luck is to blame for their losses. They 'run bad' instead of losing because they play bad. Total self denial.
The truth is poker is like a job; it's a lot of hard work. It's not enough to learn some simple preflop rules and concepts and to understand that a continuation bet is profitable. If it were that simple to code a winning solution to poker there would be winning 'bots' all over the tables and millions of us wouldn't find it so fascinating.
There will be more psychology articles to come but for now i'll leave you with a great video I found on the internet about self denial in poker.
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