Ah, the poker steam. If a poker gambler states at no time to have peered over the shadow of a looming poker tilt – they are either telling a lie or they haven’t been betting very long. This does not imply of course that every player has gone on steam in the past, a handful of players have great willpower and take their squanderings as a defeat and keep it at that. To be a good poker player, it’s very important to approach your wins and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You compete in the match the same way you did following a hard beat as you would after winning a huge hand. Most of the poker pros are not tempted by tilting after a bad beat as they are particularly seasoned and you should be to.
You must understand that you can not win every hand you are in, even if you are strongly favored. Hands that commonly make people go on tilt are hands that you were the leading choice or at least believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a large portion of your bankroll. Awful defeats are bound to develop. Embrace that reality right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your father plays cards, if your grandma plays cards – We all have bad defeats sometime. It is an unavoidable outcome of competing in Hold’em, or in reality any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (most of us) playing poker for a single purpose – to win cash, it would make sense that we will play appropriately to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up $100 off of a $100 deposit, and you suffer a huge blow in a NL game and your stack is down to $120. You have squandered eighty dollars in a hand where you were certain to pick up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and had a ten to one advantage. And that fiend! He banged you out on the river? – Well hold it right there. This is a classic choice for a fresh bettor to start tilting. They really just blew too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re agitated