Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have stared faced over the shadow of an approaching tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been gambling for a long time. This does not mean of course that everyone has been on tilt before, a handful of players have excellent willpower and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker gambler, it is extremely crucial to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are incredibly experienced and you really should be to.
You have to be aware that you will not win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that usually make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a huge portion of your stack. Bad defeats are going to happen. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to make cash, it will make sense that we would bet appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have squandered eighty dollars in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They just blew too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are pissed