Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have peered down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This does not infer of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a handful of players have wonderful control and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it is especially important to appraise your wins and your defeats in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after a bad loss as they are very seasoned and you really should be to.
You must be aware that you can’t win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which frequently cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were until you were hit and you squandered a big chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to happen. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to earn money, it does make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to $120. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh player to start tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they’re aggravated