Introduction

• Everyone makes mistakes, some more than others
  
• Mistakes that your opponents make mean profit for you
• Mistakes that you don't make mean profit for you
  

In poker, there is a very simple principle: You will always make profit when you can get your opponent to make a mistake.

But of course the opposite is also true: You will always lose when you make mistakes.

Of course it is possible that an opponent will make a massive mistake, playing bad cards to the river and still hit his magic card to win the pot. This might even happen over and over again. However, from a professional player's point of view, he is losing. Your opponent has made a mistake and will make it again, which means he will lose in the long run. Short-term results, or how much he won now are irrelevant; you will see the results at the end of the week, month or year.

If you want to play poker successfully, and want to build your bankroll long-term, and maybe have ambition to play at the highest limits then it is important to have the following "goals" of a professional player in mind.

This article lists the 10 most common rookie mistakes. You should read this somewhat self-critically, because only by finding your mistakes will you be able to correct them. In the next pages, you will find out how to do that.