Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked down the barrel of a looming poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been wagering long enough. This does not imply of course that every poker player has gone on tilt before, a few people have wonderful willpower and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it is especially important to treat your successes and your losses in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a difficult loss like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting after an awful beat as they are very accomplished and you should be to.
You have to understand that you can’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which frequently make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were hit and you lost a huge chunk of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to make $$$$, it will make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they are pissed