Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have peered over the barrel of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been betting long enough. This doesn’t indicate of course that every player has been on steam in the past, a number of people have excellent willpower and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is extremely important to treat your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a bad defeat as they are highly accomplished and you really should be to.
You have to understand that you can’t win every hand you are in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands which usually cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Awful beats are bound to develop. Face that certainty right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your mother plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It is an inevitable experience of competing in Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one reason – to acquire $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will wager accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is at $120. You have lost $80 in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a brand-new gambler to begin tilting. They basically burned too much money on one hand that they should have won and they are angry