Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims never to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching steam – they’re either lying or they have not been competing long enough. This doesn’t mean obviously that every player has gone on tilt in the past, some players have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially crucial to treat your successes and your losses in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible beat as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You need to understand that you will not win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which typically cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to develop. Accept that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make cash, it certainly makes sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned $80 in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new player to start tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re agitated
