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Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler claims at no time to have looked over the barrel of a looming tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been gambling long enough. This doesn’t indicate of course that every poker player has been on steam before, a number of players have wonderful control and take their losses as a hit and leave it at that. To be a strong poker gambler, it’s very critical to approach your wins and your defeats in a similar manner – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did following a difficult beat as you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not charmed by tilting after a bad defeat as they are highly seasoned and you should be to.

You have to understand that you can not win every hand you are in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a huge chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to happen. Face that idea right now, I will say it again – if your sister plays cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma enjoys cards – We all have bad losses sometime. It is an inevitable experience of competing in Texas Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.

Since we are assumingly (nearly all of us) playing poker for one reason – to earn a profit, it will make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a large hit in a No Limits game and your stack is down to $120. You have burned eighty dollars in a hand where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 advantage. And that amateur! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to start tilting. They basically lost too much cash on one round that they really should have won and they are angry