Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been competing very long. This does not mean obviously that everyone has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s absolutely important to treat your successes and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the match the same way you did after taking a tough beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You have to be aware that you can not win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were side swiped and you squandered a gigantic portion of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of playing Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make a profit, it will make sense that we would play accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They basically blew too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed