Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have peered over the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing long enough. This does not mean of course that every player has gone on tilt in the past, a number of players have great willpower and carry their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s especially critical to approach your successes and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not charmed by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are very accomplished and you really should be to.
You need to understand that you can’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently make people go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were hit and you lost a big portion of your bankroll. Awful beats are bound to develop. Embrace that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had poor beats sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Texas Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large blow in a No Limits game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $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 edge. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They basically lost too much money on one round that they really should have won and they are angry
