Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have peered down the barrel of an upcoming poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing for a long time. This does not mean obviously that every player has been on tilt before, a few people have wonderful control and carry their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it is extremely important to treat your successes and your losses in an identical manner – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after an awful loss as they are incredibly accomplished and you should be to.
You must be aware that you won’t win each hand you are in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that typically cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least thought you were until you were hit and you lost a large portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Accept that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa enjoys cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to acquire $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost $80 in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new bettor to start tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they are agitated