Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states at no time to have peered down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This does not imply obviously that everyone has gone on steam before, a few people have excellent willpower and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it is absolutely critical to approach your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You have to be certain that you can not win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands that frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you squandered a huge chunk of your bankroll. Awful defeats are going to develop. Accept that idea right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to win $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big blow in a No Limits game and your stack is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed
