Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have stared faced over the shadow of an upcoming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting long enough. This does not imply of course that every poker player has been on steam before, a handful of players have great control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s very important to approach your wins and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after an awful defeat as they are very accomplished and you must be to.
You must be certain that you will not win each hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that frequently make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to develop. Accept that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have poor defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable experience of playing Texas Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to win $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would play appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You’ve burned $80 in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new bettor to start tilting. They just lost too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are agitated