9 poker lessons from best football leagues in the world

As all football fans know, there is no chance that a team will finish the league season without losing a point. Every champion loses games and drops points in draws. In poker, too - it's impossible to win every tournament - you'll have a failure or even a series of failures during your career, more so than any other sport. It's important to know that every win brings you closer to the long term.

Often the points difference between the teams in the table is small before the last league match especially when fighting for promotion or against relegation. All the teams that are in such a situation play under enormous pressure.

Some of them could have saved themselves this stress if they had played one of the previous matches better, more focused and more motivated.

Poker may not be completely the same, but focus in each tournament is very important - if you're not focused, you lose a few dollars here, a few dollars there, and ultimately instead of a beautiful upwards chart in your PokerTracker graph you will see a flat break-even line.

The champion is number one, that's the fact. However, there can be many winners of the season. Last season Man City became the champion of the Premier League. Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool have also qualified to the Champions League and Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley will be able to compete in the Europa League.

Poker is the same - someone has to be the best player at the table, but you don't have to be that person for you to be a winning player.

Even if you are the best, it doesn't mean that every game will be banal for you. Sometimes the opponent will put you in very difficult conditions, sometimes even though you are perfectly prepared, something will fail in your game. This happens to everyone - that's why we have surprises during the season.

Your task is to prepare yourself to have those surprises few as possible. However, hard games will happen anyway. Get ready and don't get too irritated.

Your cash session might start poorly - sometimes you will lose your first big hands. It doesn't matter whether you got a cooler, a bad beat or just an opponent outsmarted you. Don't worry, just continue to play as well as you can. Even if you lose the tournament or finish the day with a negative result, you'll know that you've done everything you can to make sure that doesn't happen.

The same is true in football - if the teams had given up after losing their first goal, we would only have seen the results 1:0, 2:0, 3:0, etc. However, the fighting teams manage to achieve some kind of draw or win in the matches that they lost at the beginning. Take an example from them and fight for pride.

Teams from the best leagues in the world are trying to build their advantage with the use of technology. Heart rate monitors, large medical laboratories, statistical analysis of the games of your players and opponents - every little detail can make a difference. Of course, teams from lower, poorer leagues use less advanced tools than those from the highest leagues. However, they still do it.

Equally in poker, the higher the stakes you play, the more analysis you need to devote to your and your opponents' play and the more advanced tools you need to use. Of course, if you play in a "lower league", you don't have to worry so much about it, but you can still do something to get an edge.

Players from the best leagues practice every day. Their training regime is very strict. It is not that they have acquired skills once and it is enough. They realise that repetition is the key.

Just like in the point above - if you play at a lower stake - you don't have to practice every day. But if you want to play high - train!

Winning the league is not only due to skills training and statistical analysis. The players from the best leagues in the world are professionals in every way. Yes, sometimes you will hear about a scandal. However, most of the players spend most of the time sleeping at reasonable hours, not partying and eating properly.

Nobody is a saint, but you will have a better chance of success if you work not only on your technical skills but also on your self management. Good routines in life are essential.

When a football team is on a 'downswing', often the solution that works is to change the coach.

If you can't manage for some reason, but you want to win, think about changing your coach from yourself to a third party, or a friend, or a new book or training video, or by getting staking from SpinLegends. If what you are doing is not working, change what you are doing.