Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching poker steam – they are either lying or they have not been gambling for a long time. This does not indicate of course that everyone has been on tilt before, a few people have great willpower and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s very critical to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar manner – with little emotion. You participate in the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting following a horrible loss as they are incredibly professional and you must be to.
You must be aware that you can not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were side swiped and you burned a large chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to happen. Accept that idea right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable outcome of playing Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to acquire $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a NL game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered eighty dollars 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 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 player to begin tilting. They just lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed
