Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have looked down the barrel of a looming poker steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This does not imply obviously that every player has been on steam in the past, a few people have excellent control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s very important to treat your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the game the same way you did following a tough loss as you would after winning a big hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible beat as they are very seasoned and you should be to.
You must be certain 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 you were the favorite or at least believed you were up until you were rivered and you lost a huge chunk of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad defeats sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of competing in Texas Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single reason – to make money, it certainly makes sense that we will wager appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a quintessential opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They just blew too much money on one round that they should have won and they’re pissed
