Ah, the poker steam. If a poker enthusiast states at no time to have peered down the barrel of an approaching poker tilt – they’re either lying or they haven’t been competing for a long time. This does not indicate of course that each and every one has been on steam in the past, a handful of players have excellent control and take their losses as a loss and keep it at that. To be a powerful poker player, it’s extremely important to treat your wins and your defeats in a similar way – with little emotion. You play the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a great hand. Many of the poker pros are not attracted by tilting after a horrible loss as they are particularly experienced and you really should be to.
You need to be certain that you cannot win each hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands which normally cause players to go on tilt are hands you were the favored or at least believed you were up until you were side swiped and you lost a gigantic chunk of your stack. Awful beats are bound to happen. Face that fact right now, I will say it once more – if your siblings play cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandpa plays cards – We all have poor losses sometime. It’s an inevitable outcome of participating in Hold’em, or for that matter any type of poker.
Seeing as we are assumingly (almost all of us) in the game for a single reason – to acquire a profit, it will make sense that we will gamble appropriately to maximize profits. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a NL game and your stack is at $120. You have lost $80 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 there. This is a classic choice for a fresh player to begin tilting. They just blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they are pissed