Ah, the steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have peered over the shadow of an approaching poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been playing very long. This doesn’t indicate of course that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, a few players have excellent willpower and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is extremely important to appraise your wins and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting following an awful beat as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.
You must be certain that you will not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands which normally make players to go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you burned a huge chunk of your bankroll. Bad defeats are going to develop. Accept that reality right now, I will say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of playing Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we will wager appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining $120. You have squandered $80 in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one advantage. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed
