Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have looked down the shadow of a looming tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been betting long enough. This doesn’t indicate obviously that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, a number of players have wonderful control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it is absolutely crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in an identical way – with little emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did following a difficult loss as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a bad beat as they are incredibly seasoned and you should be to.
You have to understand that you can’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that typically make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a large portion of your bankroll. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor beats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make a profit, 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 take a large hit in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have squandered $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically blew too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are agitated
