Is your lack of confidence hurting your poker profits in your online poker play? In good Texas Holdem poker rooms on internet there are various levels of buy-ins for tournament play, generally starting from around $5 (plus site fee) per player. This is level that most new players play at but has your game moved on while you've stood still? What I mean by that is - have you gained enough poker experience to leave "newbies" behind and move up a couple of levels? If you have then I would seriously suggest that you start playing for higher stakes, you could be losing out on a lot of online poker profits if you don’t.
The thing about playing at bottom rung is that inexperienced players make unpredictable moves a lot more of time than experienced poker players, so very fact that you don't know what to expect from them often means that they're harder to beat than better players. Take Phil Hellmuth for example. Phil is probably just about best player in world but he's famous for ranting and raving whenever somebody makes an unexpected move against him. He would find it very difficult against a complete novice who got a run of lucky hands, in fact most of top pros avoid playing beginners for very reason that there is an unacceptably high risk of them suffering an embarrassing defeat.
Poker is an art as well as a science. It's about people as well as about cards and different people do different things, it's human nature. A hand that one player might see as cause to raise all-in, another might fold. And nowhere in world of online Texas Holdem is this difference of opinion more polarised than in bottom buy-in tables. But as you move up poker ladder, you willl find yourself mixing with a better standard of player at each stage.