Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims never to have peered over the shadow of a looming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been playing for a long time. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has been on tilt in the past, some players have wonderful willpower and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is absolutely critical to approach your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting after an awful defeat as they are particularly experienced and you should be to.
You have to understand that you can not win each hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which typically cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were hit and you squandered a huge portion of your stack. Awful losses are going to develop. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It is an inevitable effect of playing Texas Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to win cash, it would make sense that we will wager accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new bettor to start tilting. They basically blew too much cash on one round that they should have won and they are pissed