Ah, the tilt. If a poker player states never to have stared faced down the shadow of an approaching steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been competing for a long time. This doesn’t mean obviously that every poker player has gone on steam in the past, a few people have excellent willpower and take their squanderings as a loss and leave it at that. To be a great poker player, it’s especially crucial to treat your wins and your losses in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat like you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not tempted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.
You must be aware that you can not win every hand you are in, regardless if you are heavily favored. Hands that normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were until you were hit and you squandered a gigantic portion of your stack. Awful beats are bound to happen. Face that fact right now, I will say it once again – if your sister plays cards, if your mother enjoys cards, if your grandpa plays cards – They have all had poor defeats sometime. It’s an unavoidable experience of participating in Hold’em, or in reality any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one reason – to win $$$$, it does make sense that we would play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a huge hit in a NL game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You have lost eighty dollars in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a 10 – 1 edge. And that fish! He sucked you out on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic choice for a brand-new player to start tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed