Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have peered over the shadow of a looming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This does not imply of course that every poker player has been on tilt before, a few people have great control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s absolutely crucial to appraise your successes and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You participate in the match in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after a bad defeat as they are very accomplished and you really should be to.
You have to be aware that you can not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which usually cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a huge portion of your bankroll. Awful beats are going to develop. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one reason – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned $80 in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a new player to start tilting. They just burned too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re angry
