Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have peered down the barrel of an approaching poker steam – they are either lying or they have not been gambling for a long time. This does not infer obviously that everyone has been on tilt before, a handful of people have awesome willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s extremely crucial to approach your successes and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You participate in the match the same way you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after an awful loss as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You have to be aware that you can’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands which typically make people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you squandered a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to happen. Accept that fact right now, I will say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to acquire $$$$, it does make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They basically blew too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed