Ah, the steam. If a poker gambler states never to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting very long. This does not imply of course that every poker player has gone on steam in the past, a few players have great willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s absolutely crucial to appraise your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did following a difficult beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful loss as they are incredibly accomplished and you really should be to.
You must be aware that you won’t win each hand you are in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that normally make players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you burned a gigantic portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of playing Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one reason – to make money, it does make sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh player to start tilting. They just lost too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed