Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming poker tilt – they are either lying or they haven’t been betting for a long time. This doesn’t infer of course that everyone has been on steam before, a handful of people have great willpower and take their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is especially important to appraise your successes and your defeats in an identical way – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did following a hard loss like you would after winning a big hand. All poker pros are not charmed by tilting after a bad defeat as they are particularly professional and you must be to.
You have to understand that you won’t win each and every hand you’re in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which commonly make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were until you were rivered and you squandered a huge chunk of your bankroll. Bad losses are going to happen. Accept that idea right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had poor defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable effect of competing in Texas Hold’em, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to earn cash, it certainly makes sense that we will bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a big hit in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You’ve burned eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 edge. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to begin tilting. They really just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they are aggravated