Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have peered down the shadow of an approaching tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling long enough. This does not mean obviously that everyone has gone on tilt in the past, a number of players have great control and take their squanderings as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is extremely important to approach your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Many of the poker masters are not attracted by tilting after a bad loss as they are very professional and you really should be to.
You need to understand that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the front runner. Hands which normally cause people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you squandered a huge chunk of your stack. Awful losses are going to happen. Accept that certainty right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to win cash, it does make sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large blow in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve burned $80 in a hand 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 there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They just burned too much money on one round that they really should have won and they’re agitated