Ah, the poker steam. If a poker player claims at no time to have stared faced down the barrel of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been gambling for a long time. This does not mean of course that everyone has been on steam before, a handful of people have excellent control and carry their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it’s especially important to appraise your successes and your defeats in the same way – with no emotion. You compete in the match in the same manner you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible defeat as they are highly experienced and you should be to.
You must be aware that you cannot win each hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which usually make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a large portion of your stack. Awful losses are bound to develop. Accept that reality right now, I’ll say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It is an inevitable effect of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to acquire $$$$, it does make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge hit in a NL game and your bankroll is at $120. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you were sure to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one advantage. And that fish! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic choice for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much $$$$ on one round that they really should have won and they are angry