Ah, the steam. If a poker player states never to have looked over the barrel of an approaching poker steam – they’re either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting for a long time. This does not mean of course that each and every one has gone on tilt before, a few players have excellent control and take their losses as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is absolutely important to treat your wins and your losses in the same manner – with no emotion. You play the match in the same manner you did after taking a hard beat as you would after winning a great hand. Most of the poker pros are not enticed by tilting after a bad loss as they are highly seasoned and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you cannot win each and every hand you are in, regardless if you are strongly favored. Hands that commonly 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 lost a big chunk of your stack. Bad defeats are going to develop. Face that idea right now, I’ll say it once more – if your brother plays cards, if your parents enjoy cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have bad defeats at some point. It is an unavoidable outcome of participating in Texas Holdem, or really any type of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) in the game for a single reason – to make money, it does make sense that we would gamble appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a 100 dollars deposit, and you take a gigantic hit in a No Limits game and your stack is only has remaining one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost eighty dollars in a round where you were assured to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a ten to one edge. And that fish! He bled you dry on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic opportunity for a brand-new gambler to start tilting. They basically blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they really should have won and they’re aggravated