Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked over the shadow of an upcoming tilt – they are either lying or they have not been betting for a long time. This doesn’t imply obviously that each and every one has been on steam before, a number of players have wonderful willpower and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s extremely important to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after a bad defeat as they are particularly experienced and you must be to.
You need to understand that you will not win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were rivered and you lost a big portion of your bankroll. Bad beats are bound to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to make money, it would make sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a big hit in a NL game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They just lost too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed
