Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been betting for a long time. This does not mean of course that every poker player has gone on tilt in the past, some players have awesome willpower and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s absolutely important to treat your wins and your losses in the same way – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible loss as they are particularly professional and you should be to.
You need to understand that you can’t win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands which usually make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you lost a big chunk of your bankroll. Awful beats are going to develop. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad beats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of playing Holdem, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to earn cash, it does make sense that we will wager appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You’ve burned 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 held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a new gambler to begin tilting. They basically blew too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they are angry