Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This does not indicate of course that each and every one has been on tilt before, some people have great control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is extremely crucial to treat your wins and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You participate in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible beat as they are incredibly professional and you should be to.
You have to be certain that you cannot win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands which frequently make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic portion of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It is an inevitable effect of participating in Holdem, or really any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one purpose – to acquire money, it does make sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they are aggravated