Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims never to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling for a long time. This doesn’t indicate obviously that everyone has gone on tilt in the past, some people have great willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s very important to approach your successes and your losses in an identical way – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did following a hard beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a bad loss as they are particularly experienced and you must be to.
You must be aware that you will not win every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which typically make people go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at least believed you were until you were side swiped and you burned a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to acquire $$$$, it does make sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They basically blew too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re angry
