Ah, the steam. If a poker player claims never to have peered over the shadow of an upcoming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been playing long enough. This doesn’t infer obviously that every poker player has gone on tilt in the past, some people have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it is very important to approach your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not attracted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are very experienced and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you can not win each hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that normally make players to go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you squandered a huge chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to happen. Face that fact right now, I will say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of competing in Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win money, it will make sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re angry