Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have stared faced over the shadow of a looming poker steam – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This does not infer obviously that every poker player has gone on tilt before, some players have wonderful control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s extremely important to treat your successes and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat like you would after winning a huge hand. All poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are highly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you cannot win every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands which frequently cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at a minimum believed you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a huge chunk of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to develop. Accept that certainty right now, I will say it once again – if your brother enjoys cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had bad beats at some point. It is an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to acquire cash, it certainly makes sense that we would play accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and held a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh gambler to begin tilting. They just blew too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed