Ah, the tilt. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have peered over the barrel of a looming poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This does not imply of course that every player has been on steam before, some players have awesome control and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it is especially crucial to treat your wins and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after an awful beat as they are highly professional and you really should be to.
You must be certain that you cannot win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that typically cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a large chunk of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Accept that fact right now, I will say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had poor defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable experience of participating in Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to win money, it certainly makes sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s 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 bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You have burned $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a new bettor to start tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are agitated