Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast claims never to have peered over the shadow of a looming tilt – they are either lying or they have not been gambling long enough. This doesn’t mean obviously that every poker player has gone on steam in the past, some players have great control and take their losses as a hit and keep it at that. To be a great poker gambler, it is especially important to approach your successes and your losses in an identical way – with no emotion. You play the match the same way you did after taking a tough loss like you would after winning a great hand. All poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are incredibly professional and you really should be to.
You must understand that you won’t win each hand you’re in, regardless if you are the strongest player. Hands which frequently make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at least thought you were up until you were rivered and you squandered a huge chunk of your stack. Bad losses are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I will say it again – if your siblings enjoy cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – They have all had bad losses at some point. It’s an unavoidable outcome of playing Texas Hold’em, or really any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (nearly all of us) in the game for one purpose – to earn a profit, it certainly makes sense that we would bet appropriately to maximize our profit potential. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you suffer a large blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to $120. You’ve lost $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you went all-in on the flop and held a 10 – 1 advantage. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right here. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new player to start tilting. They really just lost too much money on one hand that they really should have won and they’re pissed