Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player states never to have peered over the shadow of an approaching steam – they are either telling a lie or they have not been competing very long. This does not mean of course that every poker player has gone on tilt before, a handful of people have excellent willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially important to treat your successes and your defeats in an identical way – with little emotion. You compete in the match the same way you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting following a horrible defeat as they are very experienced and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you can not win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least thought you were until you were side swiped and you squandered a gigantic chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to develop. Face that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It is an inevitable effect of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to make cash, it certainly makes sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a big hit in a NL game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new gambler to begin tilting. They basically burned too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re agitated