Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have peered over the shadow of a looming steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This does not infer obviously that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, a number of people have awesome control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it’s very important to treat your successes and your losses in an identical manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult loss like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after an awful beat as they are incredibly professional and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you will not win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Holdem, or really any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to earn a profit, it certainly makes sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $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 edge. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed