Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have looked down the barrel of a looming steam – they are either lying or they haven’t been gambling very long. This doesn’t mean of course that every player has gone on steam before, a number of players have great control and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s especially critical to treat your wins and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a tough loss like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting following a horrible loss as they are particularly accomplished and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you won’t win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands that commonly cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were side swiped and you lost a large portion of your stack. Awful beats are bound to develop. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had poor beats sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of participating in Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to acquire cash, it will make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a NL game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned 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 enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new player to start tilting. They basically lost too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they are aggravated
