Before you Tilt
Ah, the steam. If a poker enthusiast claims at no time to have looked down the shadow of an upcoming steam – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been playing very long. This doesn’t mean of course that everyone has gone on steam before, some people have excellent control and take their losses as a defeat and leave it at that. To be a powerful poker gambler, it is absolutely important to appraise your wins and your losses in the same way – with little emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did following a hard loss as you would after winning a big hand. Many of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a horrible loss as they are incredibly experienced and you should be to.
You must be aware that you will not win each hand you’re in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands that typically make people go on tilt are hands you were the leading choice or at least believed you were until you were rivered and you squandered a huge chunk of your stack. Bad losses are going to happen. Accept that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your father enjoys cards, if your grandparents play cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It is an inevitable outcome of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win money, it would make sense that we will bet accordingly to maximize our profit potential. Now let’s say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a NL game and your bankroll is at one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve squandered eighty dollars in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that guy! He sucked you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a quintessential choice for a fresh gambler to start tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re angry