Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker player states at no time to have looked over the barrel of a looming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been competing very long. This does not imply of course that every poker player has been on tilt in the past, a number of people have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s absolutely crucial to treat your wins and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting following an awful defeat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you will not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that usually cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least believed you were until you were rivered and you burned a big chunk of your stack. Awful beats are going to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad defeats at some point. It’s an inevitable effect of participating in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win money, it does make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a hand 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 fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new bettor to start tilting. They just burned too much cash on one round that they really should have won and they are pissed