Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states never to have stared faced over the barrel of an upcoming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This does not mean of course that every poker player has been on tilt before, some players have awesome willpower and carry their squanderings as a hit and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is absolutely important to treat your successes and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not charmed by tilting after a horrible beat as they are incredibly experienced and you should be to.
You have to be aware that you can not win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally make people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least thought you were until you were hit and you burned a big portion of your stack. Bad beats are going to happen. Face that certainty right now, I’ll say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have bad beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single reason – to earn a profit, it does make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that guy! He banged you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential choice for a new bettor to start tilting. They basically lost too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they are aggravated
