Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have peered over the barrel of an approaching steam – they’re either lying or they have not been playing very long. This does not indicate of course that everyone has been on tilt before, a few people have wonderful control and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it is very critical to approach your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a tough beat as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a bad beat as they are particularly experienced and you should be to.
You have to be aware that you can’t win every hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you squandered a huge chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Face that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable effect of playing Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one reason – to earn money, it does make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re agitated