Ah, the steam. If a poker gambler states never to have stared faced down the shadow of an approaching steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been playing for a long time. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is very crucial to treat your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a difficult loss like you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting following a horrible loss as they are highly professional and you should be to.
You must be certain that you can’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that usually cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were up until you were rivered and you lost a large chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor beats at some point. It is an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to make cash, it would make sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You’ve 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 enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new bettor to begin tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re angry