Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an approaching steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been playing for a long time. This doesn’t infer of course that every player has gone on tilt before, a few people have wonderful willpower and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s absolutely crucial to appraise your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the game the same way you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting after an awful beat as they are incredibly professional and you must be to.
You need to be aware that you can not win each hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to develop. Face that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of competing in Holdem, or for that matter any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to earn $$$$, it would make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a gigantic hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to begin tilting. They basically blew too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are pissed