Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states never to have stared faced over the barrel of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling long enough. This doesn’t imply of course that every player has gone on tilt before, a handful of people have excellent control and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it’s especially critical to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after an awful beat as they are particularly accomplished and you really should be to.
You must be certain that you won’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are heavily favored. Hands that usually cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had poor beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable effect of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to earn money, it will make sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a NL game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve squandered $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh bettor to begin tilting. They basically lost too much money on one round that they really should have won and they are angry
