Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims never to have peered down the shadow of an approaching steam – they are either lying or they have not been playing very long. This doesn’t imply of course that everyone has been on steam before, a few players have great willpower and carry their squanderings as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s extremely important to treat your successes and your defeats in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a huge hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are incredibly experienced and you must be to.
You must understand that you cannot win every hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which commonly cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were up until you were rivered and you squandered a gigantic portion of your stack. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Face that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor beats sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of playing Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single reason – to win cash, it will make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a round 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 fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh bettor to begin tilting. They really just burned too much money on one hand that they should have won and they are angry
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