Ah, the tilt. If a poker player states never to have stared faced down the shadow of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This does not indicate of course that every poker player has been on steam before, a few players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s absolutely important to appraise your successes and your defeats in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are highly accomplished and you should be to.
You must be certain that you cannot win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were rivered and you burned a gigantic portion of your stack. Bad losses are going to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to win a profit, it certainly makes sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You have 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 had a ten to one edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much money on one round that they should have won and they are agitated