Ah, the steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have stared faced over the shadow of a looming tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This doesn’t mean obviously that every poker player has gone on steam in the past, some people have great willpower and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it’s especially important to treat your successes and your defeats in the same way – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after an awful defeat as they are highly experienced and you really should be to.
You must understand that you can not win each hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which typically cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you squandered a large portion of your bankroll. Awful losses are going to develop. Embrace that certainty right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It’s an inevitable effect of competing in Texas Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for one reason – to win a profit, it does make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. 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 edge. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically burned too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are aggravated
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