Ah, the poker tilt. If a poker gambler claims never to have peered over the shadow of a looming tilt – they’re either telling a lie or they have not been betting very long. This doesn’t imply obviously that every poker player has been on tilt before, a few people have great willpower and take their squanderings as a loss and keep it at that. To be a brilliant poker player, it is especially important to treat your successes and your defeats in the same manner – with no emotion. You compete in the game in the same manner you did after taking a difficult beat as you would after winning a big hand. All poker masters are not attracted by tilting following a horrible beat as they are incredibly experienced and you must be to.
You have to be aware that you can’t win each and every hand you’re in, even if you are the front runner. Hands that normally make people go on tilt are hands that you were the favorite or at a minimum believed you were up until you were hit and you lost a huge portion of your bankroll. Bad defeats are bound to happen. Embrace that idea right now, I will say it once more – if your sister enjoys cards, if your parents play cards, if your grandparents enjoy cards – We all have poor losses at some point. It’s an inevitable experience of competing in Texas Holdem, or in reality any kind of poker.
After all we are assumingly (almost all of us) playing poker for one purpose – to win a profit, it would make sense that we would bet accordingly to maximize winnings. Now let us say you are up one hundred dollars off of a $100 deposit, and you take a gigantic blow in a No Limits game and your bankroll is down to one hundred and twenty dollars. You’ve lost $80 in a hand where you should have picked up $200two hundred dollars when you decided to go all-in on the flop and enjoyed a 10 – 1 edge. And that guy! He bled you dry on the river? – Well stop right there. This is a classic opportunity for a fresh player to start tilting. They just lost too much $$$$ on one hand that they should have won and they’re pissed