Ah, the steam. If a poker player states at no time to have peered over the barrel of a looming steam – they’re either lying or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This doesn’t mean of course that each and every one has been on tilt before, a few players have wonderful control and carry their losses as a loss and leave it at that. To be a strong poker player, it’s especially crucial to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not enticed by tilting following an awful loss as they are very seasoned and you should be to.
You have to understand that you can not win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that usually cause players to go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a large portion of your bankroll. Bad beats are going to happen. Embrace that reality right now, I’ll say it again – if your brother plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandparents play cards – We all have poor beats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to earn a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would wager accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a round where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that amateur! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a new bettor to begin tilting. They really just lost too much cash on one round that they really should have won and they’re pissed