Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player states never to have stared faced over the shadow of a looming poker steam – they are either lying or they haven’t been playing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that everyone has been on tilt before, a handful of players have wonderful control and carry their squanderings as a hit and leave it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is very important to treat your successes and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting after an awful loss as they are highly experienced and you should be to.
You have to be aware that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which usually cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you lost a big chunk of your stack. Awful beats are going to happen. Accept that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It is an inevitable experience of participating in Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to acquire $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You have lost $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a new player to begin tilting. They really just blew too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re agitated