Ah, the tilt. If a poker player claims never to have looked down the barrel of an upcoming steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This doesn’t mean obviously that everyone has gone on steam in the past, a number of people have wonderful control and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it’s very important to appraise your successes and your losses in an identical manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult loss as you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker masters are not enticed by tilting after an awful loss as they are incredibly accomplished and you should be to.
You need to be certain that you won’t win each hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that usually cause people go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a gigantic chunk of your bankroll. Awful beats are bound to develop. Embrace that idea right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had bad defeats at some point. It’s an inevitable outcome of playing Holdem, or really any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to acquire a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would bet appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you take a large blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is at $120. You have lost $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a quintessential opportunity for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They basically blew too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they are angry