Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler states never to have peered down the shadow of an approaching steam – they are either lying or they have not been betting for a long time. This doesn’t mean obviously that every poker player has been on tilt in the past, some players have great control and carry their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a strong poker player, it is especially important to appraise your successes and your losses in a similar way – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did following a tough beat like you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting following a bad loss as they are particularly professional and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you can not win each and every hand you are in, even if you are the strongest player. Hands which normally cause people go on tilt are hands that you were the favored or at least thought you were up until you were hit and you lost a large chunk of your bankroll. Awful losses are going to happen. Accept that fact right now, I’ll say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – They have all had bad losses sometime. It’s an inevitable effect of playing Texas Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one reason – to win $$$$, it certainly makes sense that we will gamble accordingly to maximize profits. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a huge blow in a NL 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 ten to one advantage. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right here. This is a quintessential choice for a new gambler to start tilting. They really just burned too much cash on one hand that they should have won and they are pissed