Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have looked over the barrel of an upcoming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been gambling very long. This does not infer of course that each and every one has gone on steam in the past, a number of players have great control and carry their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially important to approach your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a bad beat as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You must be aware that you can not win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you lost a large portion of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Face that reality right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable outcome of playing Texas Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to make a profit, it will make sense that we will gamble appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at $120. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They basically lost too much money on one round that they really should have won and they are aggravated