Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states never to have looked down the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they are either telling a lie or they have not been gambling for a long time. This does not indicate obviously that everyone has been on steam in the past, some people have excellent willpower and carry their squanderings as a hit and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it’s very important to appraise your wins and your losses in the same way – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a bad beat as they are incredibly seasoned and you really should be to.
You have to understand that you can not win each hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that commonly make people go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you lost a gigantic portion of your bankroll. Bad losses are bound to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I will say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to make a profit, it does make 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 take a gigantic blow in a NL game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You’ve lost $80 in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to begin tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they’re aggravated
