Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of an upcoming tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been betting for a long time. This doesn’t mean of course that each and every one has gone on steam in the past, some players have great willpower and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s absolutely crucial to appraise your successes and your losses in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a bad defeat as they are highly seasoned and you really should be to.
You need to be aware that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that frequently make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum thought you were until you were side swiped and you burned a huge portion of your stack. Awful beats are bound to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have poor defeats at some point. It is an inevitable effect of playing Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned $80 in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically burned too much $$$$ on one round that they should have won and they are aggravated
