Looking at the statistics of online poker for a minute is very rewarding. Around 90% of all online poker players fail to make money……period. The remaining 10% make consistent money and by the way, the 10% is a rough estimate that could be out by as much as 5% either way. So we are effectively looking at a range of 5%-15% of online players making long term money at whatever level. I would definitely say that the figure would in my opinion be far more likely to be on the lower side of that range than the higher side but that is a point for debate.
So if around 90% of players are losing money or not making money then 90% of poker players are doing something wrong or a combination of wrong things. This means that we then need to know or try to work out what the masses are doing or what they should be doing but are not. If we know how the masses are playing poker then we can more readily design strategies to beat them. The strategies that we therefore need to construct are probably not conventional strategies as dictated to us by the mainstream poker fraternity.
It can be immensely instructive to first read and learn what the masses are reading and following because once you establish this then you basically know how they think and act. There will always be players who only take their education a certain way down the track either because they cannot be bothered to work harder or because they haven’t got the time. But there is a reason why the masses do not make money, in years gone by it was because the greatest majority of them were simply very bad poker players. This is not the case now because a much larger percentage of the masses while not being great poker players are also adequate and efficient poker players.
