Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player claims at no time to have looked down the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling very long. This does not infer of course that everyone has been on steam before, a few people have great control and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s very critical to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did following a hard loss like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not enticed by tilting following an awful loss as they are particularly seasoned and you must be to.
You must be aware that you will not win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands that frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a large portion of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Accept that reality right now, I will say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for one purpose – to earn $$$$, it would make sense that we will gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a big blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new player to start tilting. They really just lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are pissed
