Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast states never to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been wagering very long. This does not mean of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have great control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s very critical to treat your successes and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting following a horrible beat as they are incredibly professional and you should be to.
You must understand that you can not win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least believed you were until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic portion of your stack. Awful losses are going to develop. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it once more – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to win cash, it certainly makes sense that we will wager accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge hit in a No Limits game and your bankroll is only has remaining $120. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a brand-new player to start tilting. They basically lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed