Ah, the tilt. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have looked down the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they’re either lying or they have not been competing long enough. This doesn’t infer of course that each and every one has been on steam before, a handful of players have great control and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a good poker gambler, it’s especially crucial to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with little emotion. You compete in the game the same way you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible beat as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.
You need to understand that you won’t win each and every hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands which usually make players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum thought you were up until you were hit and you burned a huge portion of your stack. Bad losses are bound to develop. Face that reality right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – They have all had poor beats at some point. It’s an unavoidable experience of competing in Texas Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for a single purpose – to win $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $80 in a round where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a ten to one edge. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They basically burned too much money on one hand that they should have won and they’re aggravated