Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have looked down the barrel of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been betting very long. This doesn’t infer of course that each and every one has been on tilt in the past, some people have great willpower and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s especially critical to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a bad beat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You have to understand that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which commonly make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least believed you were up until you were rivered and you squandered a big portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are going to happen. Face that fact right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It is an inevitable effect of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for one reason – to earn money, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your stack is down to $120. You have burned $80 in a hand where you should have picked 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 stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new gambler to begin tilting. They just burned too much money on one round that they really should have won and they are aggravated