Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have peered over the barrel of an approaching poker steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been wagering for a long time. This does not mean of course that each and every one has gone on tilt in the past, a few people have awesome control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it is especially critical to treat your successes and your defeats in an identical manner – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not enticed by tilting after a bad loss as they are incredibly experienced and you must be to.
You need to be certain that you can not win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a big portion of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it once again – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable experience of participating in Texas Holdem, or in reality any type of poker.
Since we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single purpose – to make $$$$, it does make sense that we will wager accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. 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 10 – 1 advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a new player to start tilting. They just blew too much cash on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry
