Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have peered down the barrel of a looming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been wagering very long. This does not infer of course that each and every one has gone on tilt before, some players have excellent control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it is extremely important to appraise your successes and your losses in an identical manner – with no emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are highly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you won’t win each hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands which usually cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were rivered and you lost a huge portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are going to happen. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It is an inevitable experience of playing Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to win money, it would make sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge 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 should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh player to begin tilting. They really just lost too much cash on one round that they really should have won and they are pissed