Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have peered down the shadow of a looming poker tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing long enough. This does not imply obviously that every poker player has been on tilt in the past, a few players have great willpower and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s absolutely critical to approach your wins and your losses in an identical way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly professional and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you can not win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were rivered and you squandered a large portion of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to develop. Face that idea right now, I will say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we would play accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a gigantic blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new gambler to begin tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they are agitated